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Steve Streza Jun 21, 2024

This is the framing Apple wants to sell for their decision to withhold features from the EU, and blogs are parroting it.

In reality, Apple is purposefully withholding these features from the EU, either because Apple are being retaliatory against EU customers for the existence of the DMA, or because Apple (with full knowledge of the DMA for years) refused to build these features in compliance with it.

Apple chose to harm their products in the EU. The DMA didn't. This framing is marketing.

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Steve Streza Jun 21, 2024

I genuinely don't understand what Apple's trying to do with this pissing match with the EU. If the goal is to drum up public opinion against the DMA, Apple's a "multiple trillions of dollars" company, they aren't the scrappy upstart making quirky iPod ads in the 2000s, they ARE the institutional player. Nobody has sympathy for "uwu we are being bullied by regulators" from the mouths of the megacorp.

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PointlessOne

@stevestreza They’re trying to recreate cookie banner recentment. Many people still don’t understand that those annoying popups are annoying on purpose and sometimes are even illegal. It’s just another example of malicious compliance or even plain malice depending on implementation details in an attempt to undermine DMA. And they want to undermine DMA because they’re firt in line to cash out big time for breaching it.