Apple if indeed compromised were made wont be the first company to do so in order to do business in a foreign country. BlackBerry made some compromises in order to do business in Saudi Arabia.
So it did.
well no. Look at the compromise in the EU.
The DMA has little to do with Privacy. For that matter you should check GDPR legislation.
I find nothing wrong with companies doing what it takes. I know some do, but ymmv. As I said, many companies have to be agile enough to do an international business.
Neither do I. That was not the point. The reality is, that "flags" are carried by these entities as long as it gets the most profits. When some “flag” does not suit the profits they they hand it lower and lower until it’s dropped. The carefully curated user Privacy messages is fully profit driven. A way to justify to the public the App Stores on the back of their devices. Ready to get handed the cash registers of their own or who ever payed their salary … one can always buy stocks right?
Its the theme of the day, a very powerful word.
The DMA is lousy legislation and apple had to take it or leave the EU.
It's only bad because it seams to be against some companies interests. Real Privacy has nothing to do with those interests. Neither does the DMA.
The DMA is concerned with keeping the Internet market open and fair to people and businesses, without mandatory Internet border controllers of this sort baked into network devices.
These devices would be worth very little without being part of such a network. Meaning although it’s true that the innovations these devices drive make the Internet more useful to the common man. It’s also true that it’s usefulness and profitability depend on the then Internet and its openness.
It seams that Apple hasn’t taken DMA compliance seriously yet. It seams that the proposals yet under review.
sure. There should be a set of standards for privacy across the board for every company that collects user info. But alas in real life it’s not like that.
Well, there are ... and more to come. Real life requires civil participation of course.
Nobody said otherwise. But that doesn’t mean companies will comprise on items illegal, immoral or unethical.
Absolutely. Well, at least most of them. Real life is not like that ... Some believe that the trick is to get away with it.
As I've said, it's not the job of companies to police society or other companies. That is the job of democratic governamental organizations. Governments should equip themselves to properly do so. Through laws and the ability to enforce them.
The job of companies is to generate wealth as context allows. I personally have little moral judgement on how it is done as long as it is legal. Much as you I suppose.
Democracies only work with true separation of powers. Each kind of power keeping the other in check, respecting the role of each other. Of course some will try to make the other weaker, for instance attacking taxation. Because with less tax, means less resources to policie business practices, with less resources to enforce the laws, the more one kind of power can get away with whatever. It's that simple. But governments can also try and make other powers weaker illegitimacy weaker, through legislation, but these have the elections to keep them in check. Oh than we have the justice power, well also under attack …
Anyway the way I see it, it's not by chance that the current US problems regarding governance rise with the emergence of trillion dollar tech companies. The word on the "street" is quite anti any form of government, let the wallets and the stock decide ... it's in their way. It's not by chance that many so many posts are charged with anti government feelings. Oh, than we have the attacks to the justice power by millionaire ex Presidents … will se how this goes.
There is some of that in the EU, but by no means at same scale, I feel. So much so, that the concept of one actually defending governments ability to produce laws regulating companies, seams to be am alien concept to some US posters .... commies ideias, Robin Hood stuff. Actually read a poster stating that governments should have no funding. Could not believe it, but there you go. Thes are the same entities that say that the DMA is bad.
Some ideologues seam to actually believe that the government should be a private company. You know, suffrage with wallets and all that jazz. A new orthography ...
There seams to be a deeper agenda going on. A new order of things. The full unchecked power of the wallet.
