Steve Troughton-Smith"Apple is not a company that we Europeans can trust” cuts deep
Marcin Krzyzanowski@stroughtonsmith oh no, but Apple Corporation is never wrong about a thing. trust me bro
Fahim Farook@stroughtonsmith Apple is not a company that anyone can trust ... just like a lot of the other corporations out there. They are all in it for one thing — profit.
Apple just manipulates the media much better and the media lets itself be manipulated. And people buy into this and go on about how great Apple is.
Apple just manipulates the media much better and the media lets itself be manipulated. And people buy into this and go on about how great Apple is.
multigreg@stroughtonsmith Neither can Apple have confidence in how the DMA will be applied. It reads specific in some areas like messaging, and very vague in its far-reaching interoperability requirements
Steve Sebban, CSI@multigreg @stroughtonsmith Like… the AppStore rules…?
@stevesebban @stroughtonsmith indeed, there's lots that could be discussed about them. At least there is one competing ecosystem, whereas European businesses and consumers have no escpae from badly designed legislation
Harold Leewis@multigreg @stroughtonsmith It's only vague if you want to do the absolute minimum.
@hsl @stroughtonsmith Reading the DMA without being an expert, it seems to me that it's not clear what the minimum is. Companies, not just Apple, will in future be interpreting statements of EU Commission officials and having to make investment decisions in the face of great uncertainty
Eric Jennings@stroughtonsmith The Balkanized Internet seems inevitable in retrospect. But there really was a run in the late 90’s and early 00’s that felt so hopeful and amazing.
Metafrastis@stroughtonsmith The DMA is the result of the same broken political process that almost destroyed privacy by banning messenger encryption. Politicians with not the slightest grasp of technology trying to regulate it.
Lalit Jagtap@stroughtonsmith EU iOS developers will now switch to Android and Windows devices. EU wants to fine Apple based on worldwide revenue. What if other countries come with same approach against Apple?
Georg TuparevActually, the unelected EU Commission is a band of baboons that we should not trust…