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 @stevestreza or maybe just because they really don't want anyone else to be able to say "I want to piggy back on your innovation for free because you have to let me because the DMA". As much good as it does the DMA, it is broken in a number of core decisions in terms of forcing things the EU should just leave their hands out of because the people making those Decisions have no clue about what theyre mandating or the scope of their definitions. 6 comments
@stevestreza I would honestly not count a platform wide feeding of my personal data to an AI model an improvement. Neither is the addition to Share play. The one thing that would havelbeen?nice is the remote iPhone screen on a mac but I guess I'll survive as I have since 2007. I am happy that I do not have to look for a system wide toggle to disable Apple intelligence. @stevestreza same goes for the DMA's cross-messenger demands without any clear definition of *how* or *who* is responsible to handle the interaction between different E2E encrypted services - someone just went "I want to message WhatsApp from Signal, make it work" without consideration of integrity, privacy or compliance to the GDPR or the E2E security. @heals This. Very much this. I’m very annoyed that since Apple is against the DMA we can’t say anything bad about it without being categorized at Apple bootlickers. I honestly believe that the messaging interoperability requirement is volountarily something that weakens E2E to put a foot into the door for messaging app snooping: all you need is to get one app to comply and you get messages from other services, yay! And then chat control showed up silently. @stevestreza @heals if that’s the case then like any business Apple will suffer for it when people vote with their wallets @stevestreza @heals Apple is not making products *worse* in the EU, they’re making products *less anti-competitive* in the EU ;) Seriously though, I think Apple is anticipating that the EU could find those new features anti-competitive, and fine Apple tens of billions (more?) as a result. That fine could easily be way more than the value-added from the new features. I expect parties to act in their own best interest. |
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@heals You and/or Apple are free to lobby for changes to the DMA all you like, that doesn't change the present reality that Apple is choosing to make their products worse in the EU while also conducting business in the EU, and they don't get a pass on it because a regulatory framework isn't perfect.