Look I think the USB-C requirement is a net positive, but it’s honestly ridiculous that a small fraction of the world’s governments are dictating what tech companies can and must do worldwide. This kind of stuff is not life or death or human rights related - it’s apps on an electronic ecosystem. It should be left to the free market to decide. Apple has good reasons not to allow this for privacy and safety concerns, something many customers appreciate. The EU is going to end up passing one of these mandatory requirements and it will cause major issues and/or stifle innovation.
I mean you could say this about any regulation passed by an economically powerful nation.
Do the people of the EU favor these regulations? If so, the EU is within its moral rights to regulate the products sold in its borders. Apple is free to not abide by those rules outside the EU. If they decide that it’s not worth the cost, that’s Apple’s problem.
iOS Appstore alone has over 100 million EU users. iPadOS over 23 million. Tiny.
It should be left to the free market to decide.
aka, it should be left to apple fanboys to decide.
Apple has good reasons not to allow this
they sure do — they like to keep their users with no choice whatsoever, locked in their little and wonderful cage.
Also, you’re wrong — EU doesn’t ask for sideloading worldwide, and Apple will not make it available worldwide either. The changes are exclusively for EU and EU only. And god I love to live in EU, right about now.
dictating what tech companies can and must do worldwide
EU isn’t dictating what Apple does outside EU. Blame Apple for being lazy enough to not make two models of iPhones with Lightning and USB-C for different regions.
Leaks also say that sideloading is only region locked to EU, why are you complaining that Apple does something in a region you aren’t even in?
Look I think the USB-C requirement is a net positive, but it’s honestly ridiculous that a small fraction of the world’s governments are dictating what tech companies can and must do worldwide. This kind of stuff is not life or death or human rights related - it’s apps on an electronic ecosystem. It should be left to the free market to decide. Apple has good reasons not to allow this for privacy and safety concerns, something many customers appreciate. The EU is going to end up passing one of these mandatory requirements and it will cause major issues and/or stifle innovation.
I mean you could say this about any regulation passed by an economically powerful nation.
Do the people of the EU favor these regulations? If so, the EU is within its moral rights to regulate the products sold in its borders. Apple is free to not abide by those rules outside the EU. If they decide that it’s not worth the cost, that’s Apple’s problem.
iOS Appstore alone has over 100 million EU users. iPadOS over 23 million. Tiny.
aka, it should be left to apple fanboys to decide.
they sure do — they like to keep their users with no choice whatsoever, locked in their little and wonderful cage.
Also, you’re wrong — EU doesn’t ask for sideloading worldwide, and Apple will not make it available worldwide either. The changes are exclusively for EU and EU only. And god I love to live in EU, right about now.
EU isn’t dictating what Apple does outside EU. Blame Apple for being lazy enough to not make two models of iPhones with Lightning and USB-C for different regions.
Leaks also say that sideloading is only region locked to EU, why are you complaining that Apple does something in a region you aren’t even in?
Classic American take.