Apple has called for the European Commission to repeal a swathe of technology legislation, warning that unless it is amended the company could stop shipping some products and services to the 27-country bloc.
The Silicon Valley company hit out in a submission to the commission’s review of the three-year-old anti-monopoly legislation, which is intended to regulate the gatekeeper power of the largest digital companies including search engines, app providers and messaging services.
It said it had already delayed the launch of features such as live translation through AirPods and mirroring iPhone screens on to laptop because of the act’s demands for interoperability with non-Apple products and services.
“The DMA means the list of delayed features in the EU will probably get longer, and our EU users’ experience on Apple products will fall further behind,” it said. Apple added that Brussels was creating unfair competition as the rules were not applied to Samsung, the largest smartphone provider in the EU.
“If you don’t let us misbehave, we’re gonna cut off like a good 4th of our market share”
Apple hardware has never been more boring, one iterative release after another. They rely on software and services to lock users in.
Do it stop shipping.
Hey Apple… Fuck you
Yeah I’m sure Apple’s going to give up on half a billion potential customers. Sure.
Among the requirements of the DMA is that Apple ensures that headphones made by other brands will work with iPhones. It said this has been a block on it releasing its live translation service in the EU as it allows rival companies to access data from conversations, creating a privacy problem.
I’m not really understanding this. Where is the privacy problem? What is different with airpods that solves this? At the end of the day, are they not just bluetooth headphones? Do they add some extra security layer beyond what bluetooth itself offers?
For real. It’s not like the processing power is done through the headphones. If they can act like a microphone and speaker, that’s all you should need.
Apple sold well over $10 billion worth of Iphones in the EU in 2024, but rather than deal with the annoyance of EU regulation they’re just going to take their ball and go home.
They must think EU regulators are imbeciles.
Or they think the people in the EU will do mass protests if they don’t get their product— forcing the regulators hands; maybe because of what happened with tiktok in Nepal— missing the nuance of the political and economic factors there however.
And Apple shareholders will revolt if Apple revenues drop by $10 billion because they’re having a tantrum. I hope EU regulators call Apple’s bluff. The U.S. is a corporate hellscape, the EU doesn’t have to be.
They need us (our money). We dont even like them enough to not replace them the second they go away.
obvious bluff is obvious
Knowing Apple, they’ll probably find a way to ‘comply’ that feels more like a loophole than a solution…
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Cool, stop shipping the walled garden shit then.
We should pay attention as alternatives are dwindling. Google wants Android to be more like iOS, you may not have as much freedom of choice as you think you do.
Yeah. Sad the only thing slowing that may be the EU. I hope they slap down Google as well
Better to have fewer alternatives that are not coercive monopolies that a few more which are.
Please stop shipping to anywhere.
Be pretty funny if Europe just banned them instead.
I give a fuck, I anyway prefer to lick ny belly before buying something from Apple.
I will add foldable display, perhaps categorized under “innovative hardware” or “hardware diversity”. That’s why I switched from iPhone after 17 years.
That yellow part is about to shrink and the orange part is about to go away completely when Google’s dev verification hits next year unless you have a custom rom.
The yellow part depends on where you are. Xiaomi and Honor still offer great value for money.
In the EU Fairphone with /e/OS and a middle finger for the US
Тhe last time I would have bought an Apple it would have been an Apple ][.
