EU Pushes Apple To Make iPhones More Compatible With Rival Devices (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/12/19/1528254/eu-pushes-apple-to-make-iphones-more-compatible-with-rival-devices
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/19/24324894/apple-eu-ios-interoperability-requests-dma-pushback
Apple has [2]responded [PDF] with warnings about security risks, particularly citing Meta's requests for access to Apple's technology. The Commission seeks industry feedback by January 2025, with final measures expected by March. Non-compliance could trigger EU fines up to 10% of Apple's global annual sales.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/19/24324894/apple-eu-ios-interoperability-requests-dma-pushback
[2] https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/DMA-Interoperability-Dec-2024.pdf
Transparent bribery prices (Score:1)
I don't know how much money Sony and Nintendo have paid to the EU commission, but they obviously have done something to be exempt from all these rules/laws.
Apple has the money to easily pay the same amount no matter what it was.
I wonder why they don't
Has the EU decided to go into the phone business? (Score:4, Insightful)
It just feels to me like the EU has decided to take the power to design devices away from device makers.
At what point will the EU require Apple to create an Android compatibility layer?
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Do you know why your Android phone has a micro usb connector today? The EU forced companies to standardize on a connector. Wasn't it so great before when you had to throw away your old charger because it didn't fit your new device?
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Every phone I've ever bought came with a charger so I don't see what the whining is all about. Apple people, much like Microsoft people, like the abuse. If they didn't enjoy the way these things worked, they would change their behaviors and stop giving money to these companies.
They want to be told what applications they can use. They want to be in their walled gardens. They want their blue check boxes to make them feel special. So let them have what they want. To be apple fan victims..eer, consumers.
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100 years from now, with the advent of all these amazing technologies and improvements which make life easier, people will still be using a 100-year-old standard because the EU mandated it.
Rather than mandating a requirement that any adapter that a phone device maker uses must be supported for a minimum period of time after it is first introduced.
In other words, like catalytic converters, the EU has mandated the technology used to achieve a result rather than the desired result . And in mandating this result
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In other horrific anti-freedom news, NEMA viciously controls the shape and electrical characteristics of the power outlets in your (USA) house. It was so much better when everyone could use their own plug design. Some things NEED to be standardized.
The Commission has lost the plot (Score:2)
And seems unable to understand the basic principle that Apple's commercial incentive to sell more devices aligns its privacy incentives with those of end users, while Meta's and other's incentives are anti-consumer. This is such a basic and obvious point, and it beggars belief that the EC is unable to get it, so much so, that it feels like they must have been suborned.
Before you start bickering about Europe ... (Score:2)
... how do you like that your new iPhone has a USB-C port? Nice, isn't it?
You're welcome.
- Your beloved EU-regulators
Sometimes actually improving things (TM)
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You mean it was YOUR fault I can't use the charger that came with my last i-crap and now need to buy this whole new USB-C charger thing just to use my new i-crap? How many chargers did I need anyway?
I'm going Android! Screw crapple! /s As if any Apple victim would ever do this. They all have Stockholm syndrome.
Re:They don't HAVE TO sell in Europe (Score:4, Insightful)
This isn't an EU problem, it's a lobbyist problem. Namely, why 2 US companies are weaponizing the European consumer advocacy system to fight battles that should surely be fought on home soil.
i.e. If Facebook have a legitimate argument then why is it that EU consumers would enjoy anti-monopolist protections but the American consumer wouldn't?