Do it stop shipping.
obvious bluff is obvious
They would never stop selling their products in Europe lol. And if they did, I wouldn’t care, even though I own a few Apple products.
Yeah, we don't really have systemic/infrastructure dependency on Apple. Compared to Microsoft who does & can and does extort the EU a bit where it can.
That's why foss all the things!
At least Germany is starting to move away from MS
Again.
Don't threaten me with a good time Apple.
It's just empty threats though. The EU market is bigger than America (considering population sizes only), there is no way they'd give up on that
Given android id more popular in Europe than America, you could say apple is behind in market share, so providing less features is not a great business plan.
I'm sure fairphone would love this senario.
I can only hope that a 3rd os rises to compete with google and apple. A true Linux phonebwould be a huge boon.
Apple is such a piece of shit company.
Learn how to compete without behaving anti competitively or quit your fucking jobs. It's not complicated.
Yep. Although that is the only way they've ever operated. They will never change without the force of law.
Cool, stop shipping the walled garden shit then.
Apple wouldn't stop. They need that money too much. Also, Europe is OK with going Huawei if Google and Apple keep up with their shit.
Came here to say the same. It's an empty threat. After all this is famously the company who made dual physical SIM iPhones for China and other Asian regions because eSIM isn't/wasn't legal.
And zero SIM in America so they can force their controlling narrative rather than consumer choice.
Am I misreading this or are their arguments all complete nonsense? From what I can see in the article they have:
Among the requirements of the DMA is that Apple ensures that headphones made by other brands will work with iPhones. It said this has been a block on it releasing its live translation service in the EU as it allows rival companies to access data from conversations, creating a privacy problem.
Apple said that under the DMA, “instead of competing by innovating, already successful companies are twisting the law to suit their own agendas – to collect more data from EU citizens, or to get Apple’s technology for free”.
It said that rules under the act affected the way it provided users access to apps. “Pornography apps are available on iPhone from other marketplaces – apps we’ve never allowed on the App Store because of the risks they create, especially for children,” it said.
the absurdity of their claims is how you can tell it's working. we need more of it acsoss the board
Am I misreading this or are their arguments all complete nonsense?
Its apple ... what did you expect? They have always been like this.
Apple sold well over $10 billion worth of Iphones in the EU in 2024, but rather than deal with the annoyance of EU regulation they're just going to take their ball and go home.
They must think EU regulators are imbeciles.
Or they think the people in the EU will do mass protests if they don’t get their product— forcing the regulators hands; maybe because of what happened with tiktok in Nepal— missing the nuance of the political and economic factors there however.
And Apple shareholders will revolt if Apple revenues drop by $10 billion because they're having a tantrum. I hope EU regulators call Apple's bluff. The U.S. is a corporate hellscape, the EU doesn't have to be.
Oh no! How will I ignore their products now?
Knowing Apple, they’ll probably find a way to ‘comply’ that feels more like a loophole than a solution....
I like my iPhone. It's solid hardware and reasonably capable software. It does everything I need it to do, and gives me really solid control over API access to privacy-centric controls like location and microphone.
I still wouldn't skip a beat to switch to another phone manufactured by another company (though I regret how much of a duopoly there is). The inconvenience is minor; Apple just needs to give me a shove and I'll switch.
Yeah I'm sure Apple's going to give up on half a billion potential customers. Sure.
Hey Apple... Fuck you
Among the requirements of the DMA is that Apple ensures that headphones made by other brands will work with iPhones. It said this has been a block on it releasing its live translation service in the EU as it allows rival companies to access data from conversations, creating a privacy problem.
I'm not really understanding this. Where is the privacy problem? What is different with airpods that solves this? At the end of the day, are they not just bluetooth headphones? Do they add some extra security layer beyond what bluetooth itself offers?
I remember when apple used to reverse engineer microsoft software.. :/
"If you don't let us misbehave, we're gonna cut off like a good 4th of our market share"
Don’t threaten us with a good time Apple!
They need us (our money). We dont even like them enough to not replace them the second they go away.
Please stop shipping to anywhere.
Our overlords from Brussels are fucking pussies rn. They want to monitor our messages and verify everything. And they also want to ban privacy coins for some reason.
Be pretty funny if Europe just banned them instead.
I give a fuck, I anyway prefer to lick ny belly before buying something from Apple.
, lol, good riddance.
Good idea, safari sucks.
That was always allowed
Big tech only cares about money, something that makes them very predictable. Very high fines and banning costs them money, so they will comply to all demands to avoid. Easy as that :)
We should pay attention as alternatives are dwindling. Google wants Android to be more like iOS, you may not have as much freedom of choice as you think you do.
Better to have fewer alternatives that are not coercive monopolies that a few more which are.
Who cares? The average EU citizen will benefit far more from the regulation. I don't think any of their laws have been bad so far, mostly requiring standard connectors, requiring user access to install what they want without apples permission, and monopolizing software stores in general. This might be a great opportunity to actually get some consumer friendly competition out of Europe for once. Also Samsung already allows third party app stores, has USB C like every other modern device, and allows side loading. It's going to get interesting once Google starts complaining that they can't control users devices after they buy them as well with their upcoming ban on non Google approved software installations.
demands for interoperability with non-Apple products
the rules were not applied to Samsung
I wonder if Samsung owns a walled garden where their products aren't interoperable with those from other manufacturers.
They're just bluffing, they'd lose more money by withdrawing from the EU market, than finding ways to comply. Greedy corporations are easy to predict, since their only goal is money and they don't do things "out of principle".
Just the evil nature of a megacorp manifesting in monology tenancies.
Anti-monopoly laws are at most too loose atm, not too strict.
(Also the threat is just a threat, they've been saying that for a decade now.)
Apple hardware has never been more boring, one iterative release after another. They rely on software and services to lock users in.
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