What do you mean if one doesn’t abide? The government contacts your bank, freezing or seizing your assets. You get no say and have no control. Do you imagine that Apple’s hundreds of billions of dollars in ‘cash on hand’ is literally in the form of paper cash in a basement vault at the Cupertino headquarters? No, just like most of everyone else’s cash and assets, it’s primarily digital. If governments can seize Russia’s money without firing a shot, I think governments would have have no problem doing the same with Apple’s cash. Not much of a different situation with Apple’s physical product. It comes from China, passes through customs, and the government could seize it there if they wanted to. Also, I’ve clearly laid out the principles involved here of my pro-regulation stance, quite apart from the simple desire of sideloading.
I would say rather well considering Ukraine was supposed to have folded within a week. Those sanctions are not backed by lethal force. The threat to other countries isn’t “if you don’t follow these sanctions we will bomb you.” The threat is “if you don’t follow these sanctions we’ll cut you off from the global financial system just like Russia.” The entire reason sanctions exist is as a way to exert power without needing physical force. This is basic. Governments have been using sanctions for a long time, including U.S. sanctions on Iran and North Korea. You don’t see us bombing countries for disobeying (which they do) those sanctions do you?
I’ve asked this question several times but still have yet to hear an answer. Sideloading is the only thing separating an iPhone and an Android???
You mean other than the full faith and credit of the U.S. government? Nothing, it’s a fiat currency.
Nope, see above. I don’t need a gun to carryout my objectives when I have access to your assets. The objective here, should a company disobey this law, isn’t to send people to jail or shoot them. Neither of those are remedies available in this law. The remedy is collecting fines, a remedy that in no way requires guns. Governments basically have an invisible copy of everyone’s checkbook and can make a withdrawal from it whenever they like. Just because you refuse to acknowledge that doesn’t change that fact.
The EU knows all American big techs have are network effects.
The iPhone is a general purpose device what they are trying to implement is you can download things from anywhere not just the app & iTunes Store. Plus your example is silly about swapping engines that’s a bit ill informed. the end of the day apple just want to keep their 30% cut it’s not about privacy or any of that other crap apple want to keep their revenue stream going.
Minimum level of fines of 4% and up to 20% of total turnover according to DMA.
just more ill informed speech this is all about apple maintaining their 30% cut and not being given a choice where to download apps from. It’s funny how for example a movie on Amazon to rent is 3.49 but same movie on itunes is 4.49 but when you use an iOS device the rental on Amazon suddenly becomes the same price as iOS. That’s what the eu are trying to change why should you the Amazon price be raised because you are using iOS and that my friend is because of apple.
Let's see how many developers will develop for iOS then and let us also see how Apple would fare with not many apps in the Appstore. If it goes down this path, it may end up like Windows Mobile.
Apple could always go down on their knees and beg those developers to put their apps on the App Store. That will work, I guess.
Erm, pull out of a market consisting of circa half a billion relatively affluent potential customers? Not a chance. Even threatening it would be insane as everyone in the room would know it's a very hollow bluff.
Jesus, you must feel so lost and frightened using a Mac.One for EU and anyone else hell bent on cracking iOS open.
The other for everyone who enjoys security and privacy.
Let's see how quickly EU citizens (&MEPs!) vote with their installation choice.
There has to be some advantages to Brexit surely?
Interoperability does not mean they should share features or they should have feature parity. It just means that if I am on WhatsApp, I should have some means of discovering and communicating with people on other platforms, such as iMessages. This is similar to email. Users can use different clients all with different features, but they can communicate with each other. This means that at any time I do not like my client, I can uninstall it and install another client. So, if an Android guy with WhatsApp switches to iOS, he can decide to use iMessages and get all the message history from WhatsApp, maybe (I am reaching here, but that would be the best possible scenario as that will stop one from becoming locked into any one ecosystem).
Google will be affected by DMA as well, since it also has to allow other payment services.
Exactly. Not to forget China. I have my doubts that this upcoming EU regulation will do any good. What do they really want to achieve? Most of their decisions are rather short sighted. Recall the initiative for the „one“ connector to be used with all smartphones (that did not come!). At that time, they wanted all devices having a micro-USB port! Imagine the millions of damaged hardware if this had become true. Micro-USB was the worst choice by far. They really should leave these decision with the tech companies. If you don’t like the Apple ecosystem, well, buy Android. There are so many competitors in the market. Nobody is forced to buy Apple.
Yes, they are not able (anymore) to produce something new and meaningful in the digital world, yet try to regulate and force innovative companies to their will. And German government lives in dreamland, where they are telling others how to behave and do their stuff…. I am from Germany, to avoid any misunderstanding here.
Threaten to pull out from the 89 billion dollar revenue market?
