Thom, exceedingly pureJun 22, 2024

The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.

All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.

I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.

Show threadOttmar
@thomholwerda did they also require Coca Cola to let competitors fill their own coke drink into Coca Cola branded bottles and then require Coca Cola to distribute it on Coca Cola owned trucks? I think your example works better as an analogy for the forced switch to usb-c on phones. Every manufacturer now offers that, Apple included. For your Coca Cola example to make sense we have to wait until Coca Cola are declared to be a soft drink gatekeeper. Then let’s see what happens
Jun 22, 2024 at 3:30pmWeb
Show threadThom, exceedingly pureJun 22, 2024

@ottmarklaas The market for softdrinks isn't monopolised or anticompetitive, nor is it an essential product category to participate in society.

Nice try, but you'll have to do better. 👍

Show threadOttmarJun 22, 2024
@thomholwerda you brought Coca Cola up as an example??