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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by rickdeckard on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:52AM (#41066372)
Comparable unit-pricing: A mandate brought to you by the European Union. You know, this allegedly evil entity that always hassles with the free market and annoys global companies. /s
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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by animuchan on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:26AM (#41066890)
This is not just EU, in our here Middle Eastern country there's the same law. (And also mandatory "high sugar" warning stickers on unhealthy stuff.)

Customer-friendly regulation sure feels nice.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by cromulent on Thursday July 25, 2024 @06:08AM (#41066814)
Whilst I am waiting for my number in a chemist, I kill time by finding the highest price per litre. It's normally some anti-aging cream at well over €1000 / l.
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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by rvnx on Thursday July 25, 2024 @08:19AM (#41067752)
The same with this "metric system"
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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by marcosdumay on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:15AM (#41069664)
> and annoys global companies

Lol... Meta is doing a huge campaign here in Brazil about how they won't provide us their AI services because they are annoyed by that entity.

It has been quite a help to the government popularity.

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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by rickdeckard on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:21PM (#41072349)
In Europe Apple follows the same strategy, but in a more subtle way than a full campaign.

And sadly, it seems they found some audience...

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