iOS 18.4: iPhone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing Still Missing in EU

[johnalan]

Then go to Cupertino and have a talk with Tim  and tell him to just comply to the rules. Simple as that.

Same as your (non existent) healthcare system and free/public education...Oh wait, they're even more expensive than anywhere else.

Adam Smith must be proud.

back to sleep, I'll let Daddy know you want to be governed harder.

 

[Baslea]

back to sleep, I'll let Daddy know you want to be governed harder.

Please wake me up when you have a proper public health insurance and education not only for the rich < 1%

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Most people in the EU use Android. Nobody “needs” an iphone

The EU does. Because, Apple owners spend far money on apps and services than Android owners. If they didn’t need the iPhone, they could have simply forbidden every phone from the region that doesn’t support sideloading. Simple, easy to understand AND enforce. And, would have meant that every phone offered in the EU would support sideloading without Apple having to change anything.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Strap yourself in because it's only going to get worse from here on out for you. The days of getting feature parity day-one software updates with the rest of the world is now long gone thanks to the EU's laughably ill-thought out targeting of Apple for extortion.

And not just Apple, every other tech company is thinking hard about the features they offer in the region. While they’d be cutting themselves off from some revenue by not being active in the region, they retain the autonomy to have their products work the way THEY want it to, instead of the way some regulator wants it to. They’re looking at things like the fact that the iPad is, by no definition set in the DMA, a gatekeeper, yet it was designated as one “just because”. No company wants to start operating under one set of rules and then switch to another arbitrarily just because they dare to be something the people want to buy, use, and spend money on.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

And people wonder why Apple isn't a fan of alternate app stores

And, they wonder why the EU left in the provision where Apple is able to yoink apps when approached by a company. They want a weaker App Store, but they absolutely don’t want the free-for-all that is Android.

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Which exactly what the EU wants

I think the reason why Vestager called Apple not releasing a feature a “stunning declaration” of anticompetitive behavior (not competing is now anti-competitive? 😄) is because the tale they sold to all the member countries to sign onto this poorly drafted regulation is that companies would never restrict doing business in the EU as a result of it. Which is yet another extreme misunderstanding of the cards they thought they were dealing.

The EU wants Apple around because Apple users are VASTLY more profitable than Android users and, if their regulations cause iPhone sales to drop, that’s going to irritate several member companies with publishers that already deliver profitable content to iOS users via the App Store.

This article captures ideas which would have been obvious to anyone not blinded by their own supposed greatness… Vestager’s of course not one of those.

DMA: Will it Leave Europe’s Consumers Behind?

Although Europe is right to regulate tech, its rules often leave European consumers dependent on second-rate products.

cepa.org

And, in case anyone is wondering why Vestager lost her job, it was because she rejected Spain and Germany working together to try to keep rail in the EU ran by EU companies that would be able to compete better against China’s well funded growth in the region if they merged. THIS is the person they had focusing on “competition”. 😂

Vestager in hot seat as she moves to derail mega-merger

Alstom-Siemens deal looks set to be blocked in Brussels, but Paris and Berlin are exerting political pressure.

www.politico.eu

 

[surferfb]

I think the reason why Vestager called Apple not releasing a feature a “stunning declaration” of anticompetitive behavior (not competing is now anti-competitive? 😄) is because the tale they sold to all the member countries to sign onto this poorly drafted regulation is that companies would never restrict doing business in the EU as a result of it. Which is yet another extreme misunderstanding of the cards they thought they were dealing.

The EU wants Apple around because Apple users are VASTLY more profitable than Android users and, if their regulations cause iPhone sales to drop, that’s going to irritate several member companies with publishers that already deliver profitable content to iOS users via the App Store.

This article captures ideas which would have been obvious to anyone not blinded by their own supposed greatness… Vestager’s of course not one of those.

DMA: Will it Leave Europe’s Consumers Behind?

Although Europe is right to regulate tech, its rules often leave European consumers dependent on second-rate products.

cepa.org

And, in case anyone is wondering why Vestager lost her job, it was because she rejected Spain and Germany working together to try to keep rail in the EU ran by EU companies that would be able to compete better against China’s well funded growth in the region if they merged. THIS is the person they had focusing on “competition”. 😂

Vestager in hot seat as she moves to derail mega-merger

Alstom-Siemens deal looks set to be blocked in Brussels, but Paris and Berlin are exerting political pressure.

www.politico.eu

It’s clear the EU regulators are unable to think through the consequences of their regulations. I don’t know why they have such a blind spot. From cookie popups to Crowdstrike to browser choice screens, example after example of making things worse or doing the opposite of what they claim to want to do.