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 threadMiłoszJun 22, 2024
@thomholwerda still, Apple can sell their castrated products in full price to EU citizens without doing any work to stick to the EU law.
Show threadmxkJun 22, 2024
@milosz @thomholwerda "castrated" would imply, that something of value is being lost.
Show threadRealWaaaghJun 22, 2024
@mxk @milosz @thomholwerda there's going to be a lot of value missing
Show threadmxkJun 23, 2024
@realwaaagh @milosz @thomholwerda that is where we disagree.
At the current point in time I would pay to get AI free variants of applications.
Show threadRealWaaaghJun 23, 2024

@mxk @milosz @thomholwerda in Europe we lack way more value of Apple products than the AI. Plus, from the announced features we're not getting the iPhone mirroring. Which has nothing to do with AI or Data Privacy.
Big part of the EU still doesn't have Siri or other Apple specific solutions, like Apple Care. Still paying the full price for the product (actually more than US citizens).

I don't care about Apple Intelligence. But we're missing a lot of other features.

Show threadAndreas K

@realwaaagh @mxk @milosz @thomholwerda
Well, we here in Austria seem to have Apple Care.

What we do not have is Apple Stores that honour EU/Austrian law.

Guess they must have settled with a NDA, but some time ago, there was a nice article in the news about how the “Apple genius” (is that how the idiots in Apple stores are called) explained to the personal assistant of a big shot attorney in Vienna that Austrian warranty law does not apply, US law applies to Apple sales in Austria.

Jun 23, 2024 at 9:10amWeb
Show threadAndreas KJun 23, 2024

@realwaaagh @mxk @milosz @thomholwerda
The article ended with the logical conclusion that attorney A called good friend attorney B who happened to one of the recognized specialists on civil warranty law locally to take care of his Apple headphones issue. And educate Apple on the detail that selling Apple products in Austria happens under the condition of Austrian/EU law.

BTW, Italy has repeatedly fined Apple for forcing consumers into AppleCare, so not having AppleCare is a per-MS issue?