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 threadBaldur BjarnasonJun 22, 2024
@jjude Google and Amazon do this as well. They’ve been doing this since well before the current EU regulatons took effect. And they even do this to Canada, which regularly gets services and features later despite arguably having the most US-friendly regulations possible outside of the US proper
Show threadBaldur BjarnasonJun 22, 2024
@jjude They usually don’t give any reasons either.
Show threadjavi
As someone who worked for a company who used to do this, it's mostly because the US is the target market of these products while they are in development, so they are always ready to launch there. But launching everywhere else needs extra effort: from the legal team looking at the local legal framework (they usually don't have any idea about), to localizing the product, to integrate with popular payment providers (this is usually a big thing with India), to scaling support to cover the local languages and timezones, etc.

Everything that's not US is an afterthought, something to do once the main market launch is over
Jun 23, 2024 at 6:45amWeb