Gregory's Server@gamey @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid I'm wondering how many more of those rules they are willing to accept before they decide to leave the European market.
It would be a blast if those products disappeared due to the EU regulations... 😁
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@th_willenbrink @gamey @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid  @bill88t @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid I don't think it will happen (everyone need the EU market) but I definitely agree! If Google services and most manufacturer software leave the EU many will fight for that spot and they can't be worse and will comply with the DMA. @gamey @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid It's funny that people still think the EU is too big to pass up. @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid Don't take this the wrong way but I think that's a horrible comparison! Threads didn't launch in the EU yet because they automatically transfered user data to another service without permission (not at all over regulation in my opinion), as a Twitter clone they need the EU more than most others tho so it's certainly not going to stay that way!  @gamey @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill "because they automatically transfered user data to another service without permission" – and what is different with that? I won't ever give them permission to transfer my data. But as soon as someone from their service accesses a room I am in, what would happen? I wouldn't be asked first, would I? And for them to participate, <s>the spice</s> data must flow. @gamey @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid In Europe, we have nothing to counter the big Internet corporations. @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid (1/2) You aren't wrong in concept but I think you definitely are in practice. The major way those companies keep their position is that their product are the users so more users equals more viable and there are small alternatives to many if not all of their services, they just aren't viable. Furthermore something like Android with very little competition isn't controlled by Google so it will continue to be available. @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid (2/2) Other sectors like hardware have very heavy competition from the US and Asia and won't dry up, especially since the US made China a lot less attractive to do business in. I also don't think we should call it over regulation unless it actually damages consumers, all market regulations limit business to some extend and the thread you draw there (at least to me) isn't realistic atm! @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid To me your point here is a neo liberal excuse to underregulate certain buisnesses and one of the driving factors behind even bigger big tech. @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill I can't argue against that but I still don't think the DMA is dangerous over regulation in any way and I also think Huawai could be really dangerous to Google if they mess with AOSP and leave the EU market at the same time. @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill Nothing will make the current version of AOSP closed source and if China and the EU are effected that's easily big enough of a market to continue that work even if Google abandoned all of us! (Which is highly unlikely in my opinion) @IzzyOnDroid @gamey @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill Literally sent from a degoogled custom rom'ed pixel 2xl. I look forward to a future I don't need to do this. @bill88t @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill I fundamentally agree with you but I also think your solutions are too easy, Google dose have the ultimate control over AOSP and even they struggle to maintain it. @bill88t @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill There is a big difference between all current projects and a seperately maintained branch of Android and they have no obligations to continue AOSP but as I pointed out in another comments that would also threaten China and both markets together are more than enough to justify a seperate mobile OS based on current AOSP so I don't think Google could afford to do anything like it. @th_willenbrink @gamey @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @gamey @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid there’s evidence that Apple is already working on geo-locking the new iOS features that the EU law requires. So as an example you’ll only be able to side-load apps if you’re GPS confirms you’re physically in EU. So I don’t imagine they care about the EU regulations as they can use software to ignore them outside of Europe. @AlexanderMars @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid As I pointed out before I believe that that will certainly be the case for most implementations but the EU is still one of their biggest markets so "won't care" isn't the wording I would choose! It kind of happened with the GDPR (significantly weaker enforcment but the closest comparison I have) too but England and China still adopted almost 1:1 copies of it and I hope others will follow, it's just worth a lot less without EU courts.  @th_willenbrink @gamey @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid It would be a great opportunity for existing competitors shadowed by these giants. @squalouJenkins @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid Exactly, most of the effected companies are gatekeepers because of buisness models with monopolistic tendencies and a lack of regulation. If E.g. a unethical social media compay like Fuckbook would leave the EU and essentially force people to switch they probably won't choose that awful of a company as replacment and it's not unlikely that the new one will even follow existing EU laws, that's currently questionable in most cases too! |
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We wouldn't lose android as by itself.
And losing Apple or Samsung doesn't sound all that bad.
If anything, it's a good thing.
The underdogs will comply to bite the marketshare.