Daring FireballMar 26, 2024
★ The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue
https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue
The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue

The DMA allows the EC to penalize “gatekeepers” with fines that are vastly disproportionate to the amount of revenue they generate in EU member states.

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Show threaddmitriidMar 26, 2024

@daringfireball

Everything you write about "vague" or "unfair" is a purely US view of a person who refuses to understand a worldview outside of US-branded capitalism.

Here's an article describing all the things you willingly refuse to understand:

"Facing reality, whether it’s about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management" https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-eu-and-tech/

Also, your continuous "poor mega corporations who don't do no wrong" stream of easily refutable half-truths is getting tired

Facing reality, whether it's about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Show threadSeanMar 26, 2024
@dmitriid @daringfireball actually as someone who lives in Europe I totally agree with Gruber. He makes logical points, nothing to do with Americanism.
Show threaddmitriid

@Strwpok @daringfireball

All his points stem exactly from a purely US-centric point of view where capitalism should run unchecked and poor trillion-dollar companies can do no wrong because profits.

He literally argues that Facebook should be allowed its pervasive and invasive tracking because doing otherwise might hurt their lucrative ads setup.

And so on and so forth

Mar 27, 2024 at 6:30amWeb
Show threadSeanApr 11, 2024
@dmitriid interesting interpretation, but wrong. He said that Facebook have given people a choice but the EU seen upset that people seem more than willing to accept the tracking to keep using the service for free.
Show threaddmitriidApr 11, 2024

@Strwpok

Nope. He literally wrote an article about Facebook's "lucrative ads business", and how much money each user brings Facebook. And he literally wrote multiple times that "maybe EU should ban targeted advertising altogether".