There’s also a reason why ALL of the companies they want to pass this law for were created OUTSIDE the EU. Perhaps having EU level consumer rights and privacy rights = no companies like Apple.
Perhaps that’s the case. Outside of the majority of the foundational technology was invented in Europe by European companies. It’s just very easy for a company to buy them in EU as no regulation prevents it. Except today DMA now forced big companies to disclose the intent to purchase small companies for scrutiny.
So tell me this, should we prefer company rights or consumer rights? Consumer privacy or company right to your information?
Now, ask a new question.
“This could be implemented fairly soon using RTS. However, all of your messages would have to go through Google.” and see what happens once there’s even the barest understanding of the circumstances involved. The “unsure” group are at least aware that “this SOUNDS good, but what’s the catch?”
Your messages could go through anywhere. It’s up to market to decide.
Apple and google both use Wi-Fi, but only apple have airplay. Both use Bluetooth, but only apple support the H1 seamless paring mechanism. Both support the Qi charging standard but only apple have MagSafe charging.
Both support usb c on their tables, but only apple includes thunderbolts as well.
Both supports Enojis, but only apple have their uneque appearance.
This will be the same. iMessage supports SMS/MMS standard and( insert new universal E2EE communication) to send text to signal, WhatsApp, RCS android but only apple devices can receive iMessages.
People wanting what’s impossible or impractical is nothing unique or special. If someone does a poll for something that’s possible, that they want to get an idea of if it would be financially worth doing, their poll would provide a valuable result. Kickstarter and Indiegogo depend on this kind of “polling”.
If someone does a poll for
“a mode of transportation that takes you safely from their home to <their favorite vacation spot> in less than 1 hour”,
“a strawberry tart with rat in it”
“a strawberry tart without so much rat in it”
and the majority choose the first, that doesn’t really say anything about the option, just that people like fantasies
This isn’t impractical or impossible. As all the above examples. You can support a standard and still have your proprietary solution between your own devices.
Email clients have many security standards and proprietary solutions but still allow communication to any other client without you needing to know or care about their solution. Apple’s iCloud relay and privacy feature doesn’t only work with other iCloud mails and doesn’t care for the program the recipient uses.
They are simply showing they made a good faith effort to comply and that ACM is being unreasonable. Apple is betting when this goes to court and if the entire legality of the order is not sided in their favor, then they will at least have the fines reduced or set aside by being ruled in compliance. This was always going to court. It just needed to play out through this process first.
Yea, good luck being partially in compliance isn’t a thing. And civil law courts have a very interesting quirk when it comes to these things. judges are often described as “investigators.” They take the lead in the proceedings by bringing charges, establishing facts through witness examination and applying remedies found in legal codes.
codified statutes. Lawyers present arguments based on the evidence the court finds.
Evidence demands are within the sovereign inquisitorial function of the court — not within the lawyers’ role. As such, “discovery” by foreign attorneys is dimly viewed, and can even lead to criminal sanctions
In civil law countries, only the judicial decisions of administrative and constitutional courts are binding outside the original case. In essence, the concept of precedent, i.e. past cases can determine the outcome of future ones, is not used.
How can EU or anyone make Apple or a company take decisions of theit business? Apple make products and has its own market, of course they will make the rules.
Well eu will never make a decision on apple’s business. It’s simply saying if you want to do business here, you must follow local laws.
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