Let me bring out my violin for all you poor unknowing Europeans, whose lives are about to be ruined for eternity. You may not know it, but you have been enjoying a life of happiness and innocence, not because the world is peaceful, but because of a mysterious protector in the shadows, standing outside your window in the rain, thanklessly defending you against the horrors of the world, such as.. objectionable content. The gates of hell are about to open, and there’s nothing you can do! All I want you to know, dear user, is that a whatever happens, don’t blame Apple Incorporated. They fought until the very end, for the right to protect you.
By what exactly?
> objectionable content?
What are you talking about? Do you even know what the DMA is about?
The objectionable content are other app stores and apps not subject to Apple's draconian controls due to the European regulations.
At the risk of getting off-topic and/or being pedantic, is it really "losing" data? Usually the data remains on their servers and is duplicated to another location rather than the sole copy being moved from one spot to another.
"Inadvertently duplicated your data to some nefarious actors" might be better.
It's just such a nakedly bad argument because Apple already does a garbage job at maintaining the App Store against these supposed external threats.
[0]: A "long con" scam, where the victim (the "pig") is lulled into a false sense of trust for an online stranger (making them fat and ready to for slaughter) and then convinced to spend large sums of money on dubious trading platforms ("being butchered") at a vulnerable moment. https://youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg
And that is always such a patronising, stupid argument. Apple is not my dad. Apple is a hardware and OS provider and should serve me. It is not their responsibility.
While I do envy you this, it’s not for the EU’s digital rules.
Why is that? It’s because the rest of the world will inevitable copy the EU rules within a few years like happened with the GDPR.
So I'm not concerned about missing out on EU digital rules without living in the EU.
I do, however, greatly miss the EU food regulations. It’s astonishing how foods that my wife and I are allergic to in the U.S. are completely ok with us when traveling in the EU. A friend that is absolutely unable to tolerate gluten/wheat in the U.S. had absolutely no problem scarfing down pasta in Italy and croissants in France. The U.S. at least appears nowhere near implementing EU like food rules anytime soon and I genuinely envy you for that.
What's so wild about this is when large companies DO lose your data, the best they offer is an apology and a message saying : "We take privacy very seriously"
The companies are not being asked to take on extra risk. They're being asked to reduce the gatekeeping.
> Some critics of the DMA, including ITIF, have urged countries to "carefully consider the full implications before copying the EU’s digital regulatory system," warning of potentially burdensome restrictions possibly hampering innovation and distorting competition.
Because more competition always leads to less innovation ? /s
The arguments against this are ridiculous. Especially coming from companies who like to "Move fast and break things". I guess they forgot the "once it doesn't hurt our monopolozation".
I love living in the EU.