EU to Target Apple Maps and Apple Ads Next

[Unregistered 4U]

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.

Better question, which world class tech companies are in the EU. I’ll save you the effort, none. 😏 I didn’t mention what region they went to mainly because for many years now the entire world has been more than happy to place value on what the EU regulators drive out of the region. Incidentally, had those companies remained in the region, not only would the jobs and tax receipts had stayed within the region, they would have had MORE controls over those companies! Just engaging the tiniest bit of forward thinking could have yielded an EU that was innovating into the future with “EU style restraint” tech companies along with the other world powers instead of basing their entire tech future on non-EU companies.

And you’re right, the EU is entitled to entrust the future of tech in the region on companies not based in the region. And, if world events transpire such that those companies are forbidden to do business in the region? Well, there’s going to be a bunch of folks that will be wishing there had been a little bit more moving-fast-and-breaking-things IN the region.