Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation

Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by FirmwareBurner on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @06:25PM (#39364308)

UI can't control the fact that the Samsung is so expensive in Portugal. It's 100 Euros cheaper where I live.

>neither of these is in a price range where you’re moving into prestige territory.

It's not about prestige territory, but a stricker price difference of 200 Euros can sway purchase decisions in Europe when a wage is ~2000 Euros.

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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by acdha on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:02PM (#39364596)

€2000 is less than half of the average income for Albania and the poorest one in the EU is Bulgaria at 5 times that much.

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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by FirmwareBurner on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:27PM (#39364766)

Monthly...not yearly. I don't know how or where you got those numbers but at this point I'd rather end the conversation here.

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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by acdha on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:45PM (#39364911)

Here’s the source:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.ADJ.NNTY.PC.CD?locat...

I assumed you meant yearly because the idea that someone would be able to afford a €400 phone but not a €500 phone just doesn’t make sense when you’re talking about monthly income. Someone making €2k monthly is looking at less 1% of their annual income difference for a device they’ll buy once or twice per decade. It’s a noticeable amount of money, sure, but I’d be quite surprised if that was the area they’d feel a priority to economize.

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