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 threadAndreas KJun 23, 2024

@realwaaagh @mxk @milosz @thomholwerda
Not really.

As some developers have correctly observed, the iOS 18 Beta is missing all the new exciting features, which is highly atypical, but there are good reasons:

- Apple finds it a bit hard to tune the AI features to Apple quality expectations. Guss what, seems like Apple has not solved the LLM/world model problem, so they will take a long time to fine tune that AI beast.

- building the private AI cloud will take ~2 years.

Show threadRealWaaaghJun 23, 2024
@yacc143 @mxk @milosz @thomholwerda still, EU for years is cut off from many services. Ofc, Germany, France is quite well served (UK of course too), but I would love EU to put pressure on many companies for an equal treatment of all EU market.
I find the current Apple position to be only a start from cutting off EU from even more Apple solutions. And if they will go over with it, others will only follow, that will end up with EU having worse experience across the board. From Apple, through Google till the Chineese solutions.
Show threadAndreas K

@realwaaagh @mxk @milosz @thomholwerda
As mentioned, AppleCare is NOT the wonderful product you think, it implies that Apple basically tries to ignore the statutory warranty in the MS where it sells AppleCare → now if you happen to an attorney at hand that works pro bono to force Apple to honour its lawful obligations, great.

But most people don't have a good friend that happens to practice that area of civil law.

Jun 23, 2024 at 9:17amWeb