Baldur BjarnasonJun 22, 2024
“Your iPhone won’t get AI features because of the EU” is not the PR triumph Apple thinks it is.
Show threadBaldur BjarnasonJun 22, 2024

Also, those of us living in Europe already know that “you would have gotten these features at the same time as the US if it weren’t for the EU” is a fucking lie. The US always gets features first, and we only get them later… if we’re lucky

(Iceland still doesn’t get Apple TV Plus.)

Show threadjjudeJun 22, 2024

@baldur

The US always gets features first, and we only get them later… if we’re lucky

Bit surprised to read sitting in India. I thought tech giants don’t release in India because of regulation.

Is it only Apple that delays or others too - AWS, Amazon, Google…?

What are the usual reasons?

Show threadHouston BovaJun 22, 2024
@jjude @baldur Combinations of things. With EU it tends to be compliance. In the US they can launch products more or less however they want and don’t need to have any kind of audit trail. (Although apple goes pretty above and beyond when it comes to proving the security of their software compared to most others). Other times it’s money. Americans happily pay $1600 USD for a phone. Making all the apps in all the other languages isn’t always profitable. So why do it?
Show threadjjude

@zethtren @baldur

Americans happily pay $1600 USD for a phone. Making all the apps in all the other languages isn’t always profitable. So why do it?

More than anything the reasons are monetary.

Jun 22, 2024 at 1:19pmWeb
Show threadHouston BovaJun 22, 2024

@jjude @baldur Oh yeah, 100% agree.

But it’s not like they’re GNU. They intentionally keep their products closed source so they can’t really leverage the FOSS community to build them in any meaningful way. So it only makes sense that there has to be a decent ROI for them to bother in the first place.