Gregory's Server@kontrafiktion @stevestreza It might also be that sufficiently much of the law is clear to them and they don’t feel it’s in their commercial interests to comply with it (so they take the legal remedy of not putting themselves in the jurisdiction of that law). I’m not against some DMA-like law (leaving aside whether I think this one “works”), but if some jurisdiction said “you can’t sell your software unless you give all our citizens free hardware to run it on”… 1/2
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 @kontrafiktion @stevestreza @gruber As I say, I’m in favour of regulation of various kinds, and I’m not convinced that the EU is being covertly protectionist, but if “Apple decides not to offer infringing features in Europe” wasn’t somewhere on the list of potential outcomes of the DMA, these specific regulators messed up their plan. @kontrafiktion @stevestreza @gruber Personally I think I’d like someone to step in and fill the commercial niche. As remarked above, Apple has shifted over the last 20 years from “plucky rebel” to “established order” and maybe it’s time for a new disruptive upstart to emerge—if only to keep them honest. |
@kontrafiktion @stevestreza … then you’d understand if Microsoft refused to do business in that jurisdiction. The EU has said Apple can comply with their law or get out; Apple are saying that if those are the choices they’d like to take option 2. You can ask whether that’s the right decision *from Apple’s perspective*—perhaps they’re not being sufficiently … patient, to pick up on @gruber’s theme … but if they don’t want to play, that’s their decision