EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by henry2023 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:55AM (#37671085)

Because I like iPhone hardware. It's high quality and lasts.

The EU has the right to mandate rules on what corporations sell to its population. No one is forcing Apple to keep selling phones in the EU. They could even create a version of iPhone exclusively for them. Hopefully that hasn't been the case and finally we all have USB-C. Thanks EU.

Hopefully they start being much more strict about repairability and openness.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by a-user-you-like on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @05:28AM (#37672264)

I’d lol if Apple pulls out of the EU.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by seszett on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @08:40AM (#37673778)

This comment comes every single time the EU asks Apple anything.

And yet, every time Apple gives in to the demands of the authorities of the largest market in the world, unsurprisingly (even if Europe is only Apple's second region per revenue, because they lag very much behind Android there).

Anyone who thinks Apple will give up about 100 billion dollars of revenue to spite the EU is not being realistic.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by a-user-you-like on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:05AM (#37675686)

So far

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by criddell on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @06:23AM (#37672702)

I wonder if Apple came out with an Android version of iPhone, would that eliminate pressure on them to open iOS?

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by KorematsuFredt on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:46AM (#37724634)

> The EU has the right to mandate rules on what corporations sell to its population.

I don't see how EU has a "right" to decide what the population can buy or not. Sounds like tyranny to me.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by henry2023 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:38PM (#37770484)

Should you be able to buy any drug, organ or children? I don’t think so, no government on this planet has a free market because there are laws and regulations.

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