fer0nApple Intelligence Features Not Coming to European Union at Launch Due to DMA
chiisanaIt is unreasonable to expect platforms to open up everything to be ripped out and swapped for their competitors.
I expect platforms get more and more cautious as to what they release into unfavorable regulatory environments that offer only marginal economical benefits.
odiumExpecting platforms to try and get chosen by consumers for being a good option rather than being the only option is unreasonable?
Bitter that you’re not able to use new features much? Reap what you sow.
I’m in the US
astrskThis is what never made sense to me about this argument.
Who exactly is forcing people to buy iPhones? How is the platform anti-competition when there’s loads of competition all around it, in equally as large numbers?
The walled garden has always been a feature, a selling point. And people choose to adopt it or not.
Can you explain better how the logic in your argument above goes, with that in mind?
The iPhone platform has competition against other platforms. The platform as a whole is competing with android for instance.
Within the android platform, google play competes with fdroid, Samsung galaxy store, etc.
Within the iPhone platform, the app store has no competition.
But what does that matter when the platform has plenty of competition? This is what doesn’t make sense to me. Google chose to allow other app stores. That’s a feature of the platform. Apple chose to not allow sideloading or other app stores, again, as a feature.
Who is forcing people to use Apple devices?
Why doesn’t this extend to other platforms like Nintendo or PlayStation whose stores are explicit features of the platforms?
narc0tic_birdNo one is forcing people to use Apple devices. That’s not what this is about.
It’s about other services trying to reach potential customers that happen to be using an iPhone. Spotify has to go through the App Store if they want to reach any customers on the second largest mobile platform. And Apple themselves have a lot of advantages concerning integrating their own music streaming service into the OS while Spotify is limited by the rules Apple sets, including taking 30% of any subscription made through the App Store.
ddhThe anti-competitive behaviour implied in a walled-garden starts once that flagship product is bought.
Apple chose to not allow sideloading or other app stores, again, as a feature.
Ok, so maybe some cars decide not to offer seatbelts as a feature. Oh wait, they can’t, because that’s dumb.
Not having a feature that helps consumers is not a feature. When Apple prevents people from repairing their phones, that’s not a feature. When they prevent consumers from loading their own apps in order to steal more of their money, that’s not a feature. It’s comically anti-competitive and bad for everyone.
The DMA doesn’t seem to have ever been about consumer choice, it’s about the choice of other competitors to have access to Apple’s customers without having to play by Apple’s rules. Just look at who was pushing for sideloading on iOS, I mostly saw Meta and Epic Games at the forefront. Why should Apple compromise my device’s integrity so that Meta can spy on me? I have no good answer to that.
Even more aggregious is the EU’s audacity to declare that tech companies must be horizontally integrated. What’s next, are they going to go after Nintendo?
What is the economical benefit of these features?
Ain't competition about choice for end user.