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EU Takes Credit for Apple and Google's Upcoming iPhone-Android Data Transfer Tools
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surferfb
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Well, at least Oppo thinks it’s too thick.
Oppo says Find N5 is as thin as a USB-C port: Here’s what it looks like
Despite its thinness, the Oppo Find N5 may pack a huge 5,700mAh battery.
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The EU originally tried to mandate that all phones use Micro-USB. Two years after Apple released Lightning. Apple pushed back hard, so they made it voluntary and allowed Apple to include an adapter in the box rather than put Micro-USB on their phones. If that doesn’t show you the folly of letting regulators making decisions that should be left to engineers, I don’t know what will.
At the time, EU regulators said micro-USB was good enough and innovation in charging plugs was unlikely to matter much soon (sound familiar? Also note it was dead wrong). But even the voluntary standard effectively slowed the rollout of USB-C in smartphones because manufacturers didn’t want to produce different hardware for the EU vs. other regions. And now the standard is law. And sure, USB-C is good now. But we thought USB-A was good too. And what company is going to invest tens to hundreds or millions of dollars in designing a better port if it can’t be used in the EU?
I’m a big fan of USB-C. But I think mandating it into law is a terrible idea. If someone invented a new port, everyone agreed it’s way better than USB-C, the inventor gives it away to all manufacturers for free, and even the EU agrees it is significantly better, it will take between 4 and 8 years before it can be the port on phones in the EU. In my opinion, that’s insanity.
The EU can take credit when they write their first line of code. Otherwise they should butt out and let the marketplace decide rather than take $$$$$ from their homegrown, cry-baby tech companies to force a free ride on the backs of non-EU tech platforms.
The EU took the initiative in creating iOS-Android transfer software!
Madonepro
macrumors 65816
Google initiated Android to Mac transfer software back in 2013, with Android File Transfer App, to state the EU took the initiate with iOS - Android, is somewhat misleading.As there has been for a number of years, work by both platforms, to allow for users of one system, to buy the other's device and easily transfer their data. Ultimately what this will do, will be to stop the two major phone os's fighting over new users, and allow an easy transition.
You had to be around in the early 2000's, trying to move outlook pst's to a Mac, to appreciate how easy it is these days.
Abazigal
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I am not sure how this is any better for developers. Most data is already synced via the cloud, and the biggest issue stopping developers from bringing their apps to Android is that there just isn't much money to be made in the space.
Maybe the EU should go one step further, and ban any iOS app in their market which doesn't have an Android equivalent (and vice versa), if they really want to push for better inter-operability between the two platforms. 😏
Maybe the EU should go one step further, and ban any iOS app in their market which doesn't have an Android equivalent (and vice versa), if they really want to push for better inter-operability between the two platforms. 😏
Nothing wrong with celebrating fewer barriers!
That said, the EU also claimed app prices would go down…still waiting for that magical, kickback-paying, unicorn to appear 😝
And let’s not forget the EU has also been fighting to open up the iPhone to more advertisers. Cause gosh darn it, who cares about consumer protections when there is profit to be made!
That said, the EU also claimed app prices would go down…still waiting for that magical, kickback-paying, unicorn to appear 😝
And let’s not forget the EU has also been fighting to open up the iPhone to more advertisers. Cause gosh darn it, who cares about consumer protections when there is profit to be made!
Figure 8 is an IEC connector, and both those and the barrel connectors have been international standards for many decades.
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Cross-platform data portability would have occurred sooner or later without the EU's interference.
Chazak
macrumors 6502a
How is it not capitalism in its purest form? Let's see ...forced government regulation, not a free market, restraints forced by regulation, indirect subsidies. The EU regulators have no idea what capitalism in its"purest form" is.
Chazak
macrumors 6502a
I don't think you understand the causes of lopsided wealth accumulation or potential solutions. The DMA does nothing to address those issues as it is not really their business or mission .
This is just dumb. Apple’s Move to iPhone app has been available on the Play Store for a decade. Google has had guidance for many years and released their Move to Android app on the App Store several years ago. Moving between platforms has never been hard technically. What exactly did the EU do here?
xDKP
macrumors 68030
Which I would be totally fine with - didn’t have a single issue with my lightning cables throughout the years, but now my family doesn’t charge with the same plugs any more and I have not really found a ton of benifit from swapping to USB C on my iPhone
Be careful about what you read “somewhere”. Not everything written is true. What you wrote certainly isn’t. Have you ever visited any places in Europe?
Of course it's true. EU doesn't tax European tech companies, so that amounts to 0 EUR. EU places exorbitant fines on American companies of X billion EUR. So, yes it's certainly more.
European countries tax the European tech companies, EU doesn't have a tax authority. EU gets their money from fines and membership fees (EU countries).
Best agreed estimates is that UK growth is down by £110bn per annum as a result of leaving.
They have no jurisdiction to export their laws worldwide.
The EU is like the USA at federal level, except it can’t tax citizens.
It homogenises trade rules between states to ensure that there is a level playing field for all members.
Getting rid of the EU is akin to getting rid of your federal government, shutting Washington DC down.
The parallel to your German comments is for California to leave your union.