Anymore? I don’t think the U.S. and EU were ever super close. The U.S. and some individual European countries were/are - but not the entire EU
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EU to Target Apple Maps and Apple Ads Next
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Honestly, I wish Apple Maps would would work well in my country. It would be a nice alternative to Google Maps. At least in my iOS devices.
Choice is good, but apply the rules evenly acrss teh board so any company has to provide teh same access, regardless of their market share.
If weaponizing is the concern, limit a company to getting the same data as any competing service; rather than potentially reducing protections on user data.
Yeah, that's a non-starter, more likely is more bifurcation of iOS as Apple works to protect its profits and not be forced to share things it doesn't want to share.
This is such nonsense. Where in the EU regulations are they demanding that E2E be stripped away and the governments should have access to private messages?
Government access to encrypted data is what is addressed by the Technology Roadmap on Encryption. Thye don't have those laws, yet. In the end, governments (not just the EU) will want access to private encrypted data, and pass laws to force it, in the name of safety.
The thing about regulation is eventually the regulated figure out how to use it to create barriers to entry and keep competition out.
Apple forces me to use Apple Maps for a lot of things on iOS and iPad OS, so yes if I want to use an iPhone I have to at least partially do it.
And exactly how is Apple to improve the Maps data to include a recently opened location? Google runs the largest search and ads platform on the planet with web crawlers working 24/7 to identify and index new sites and businesses. Why do you think Google Maps is able to be updated in a day yet it takes time for Apple to do the same?
As others have mentioned Apple relies on a partnership with Yelp. And Yelp sucks. Perhaps the EU should mandate that Google has to share all their maps data with anyone who wants it (such as Apple?).
Except in the EU most regulations have one main purpose: to protect consumers. In the US for example, many regulations are designed to protect companies. As an EU citizen I welcome rules that prevent me from being scammed or poisoned. Of course, some regulations are funny or go a bit over the top, like the old rules about the size and curvature of cucumbers, but even those were intended to stop farmers from selling produce that should have been used as animal feed. Most EU consumer protection regulations make sense, and most people are glad to have them.
IF they don’t do what they did with iMessage and give it a pass. If they regulate it, then, yeah.
I don’t disagree, it is 100% a fact that there’s more regulation in the EU. Those regulations are why all the successful tech companies that used to be in the EU are no longer there. Those companies are, instead, providing jobs and tax revenue to regions that weren’t a part of their founding, but where they were forced to go when the region they were founded in drove them out. There are advantages, but the largest disadvantage caused the current risk where the EU is dependent on US tech. And, the laws they’ve passed recently (driven by someone who no longer even in government!) are just solidifying the place of US designed hardware controlling the tech future of the EU.
What good is having alternate App Stores when a combative government forbids companies from doing business with the EU? “It’s so great that I can use an Alternate App Store on hardware that I can no longer buy! I guess what we should have done was invested in companies in the EU to create hardware and OS’s that don’t depend on the US. And, MOST importantly get the EU regulatory folks to understand that we NEED to keep those companies IN the region.” The first half will never happen in the EU as long as the second half is there waiting to punish success.
That likely has something to do with the robustness of the car company’s software stack. I’ve read about people having beta issues with CarPlay, but Kia’s wired implementation, for me, has never had any issues with beta CarPlay.
which successful tech companies have left the EU and are minting it in the states now? and if they want an unregulated wild west where anything goes and money talks, they are perfectly entitled to move as they please, just as EU is entitled to set conditions for them to operate within its jurisdiction. because when lets-move-fast-and-break-things is allowed, someone has to pick up the pieces, which usually means anyone but those doing the breaking.
It’s not what the intent is, but how companies are able to use them to erect barriers to entry sand thus limit competition. That’s not to say regulations are to be avoided, just they don’t always improve the competitiveness of a market; often they do the opposite and raise prices.
Maybe Apple shouldn’t force me to use Apple Maps for certain tasks on iOS if they aren’t willing to spend the money required to make it a viable option? More competition gives us better products by giving the companies more incentives to produce them.
Makes sense to me, OR have it run a special EU fork of Android. I mean, if there were any tech companies left in the EU that could do that.
Some folks just don’t understand the idea of “personal responsibility”. They want it to be illegal for them to have to suffer for a poor decision they made.
Hmm, I feel it is probably more accurate to say that antitrust regulation in the US is aimed at protecting the consumer, while antitrust regulation in the EU is aimed at protecting smaller (local) businesses.
That's why the EU is trying to break open the iOS App Store model, even though it's blatantly clear that eschewing Apple's 15/30% cut is not really going to result in cheaper app prices for consumers. I am fine with it - just be honest.
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom
Draft proposals obtained by POLITICO show EU is breaking sacred privacy regime to placate industry.
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It's also why Apple is willing to neuter wifi-sync on the Apple Watch in the EU, than make it available to third parties and potentially allowing them to access a user's wifi history (a privacy concern). Either the EU doesn't really fully understand the longer-term implications of their own legislation, or they are willing to close an eye in certain scenarios where it would benefit their own businesses.
And the EU is also considering weakening privacy laws to give their own local businesses a leg up, probably realising how their own over-regulation is starting to kneecap their own industries (something I called out a while back). If you are an entrepreneur looking to open an AI-startup in the EU, good for you. Not sure how its residents will feel about this. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯