Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by macintux on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:41PM (#48464583)

A huge part of Apple’s marketing, whether you believe them or not, is that they try to protect your privacy.

The smartphone is probably the most sensitive device most people own. It knows your location always. It has your banking apps. Your password manager. Your instant messages, and social media chats, it knows whether you’re walking, or driving, or talking on the phone, and to whom.

Once Apple allows any other vendor to vacuum all of that intensively private information out of an iPhone, Apple becomes indirectly responsible for potentially massive privacy breaches.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by schubidubiduba on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:54PM (#48464830)

All of that happens only if the user chooses to do it though. Anybody is free to stay in the caged Apple garden. The EU just wants them to leave the door unlocked.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by happyopossum on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:33PM (#48465466)

A door with a lock is different from a wall with no door. Same argument that gets made with government-keyed or government-breakable encryption schemes: it's better for everyone to not have the backdoor at all.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by gmueckl on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @05:44PM (#48468190)

It's not a backdoor. It's a front door that can only be opened from the inside when done correctly.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by x0x0 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:02PM (#48469029)

That's flatly not true. imessage interop means not just the person who installs the other app, but the data of everyone with whom they message loses the security/privacy guarantees created by imessage and Apple as a corp. Including massive resources pointed at securing the app itself.

That doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad idea from a competition point of view, but good ideas can be discussed w/ an honest view of the quite real downsides.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by gmueckl on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @10:19PM (#48470529)

Apple could have worked with other companies to make RCS secure by default instead of building their own little thing that openly and intentionally discriminates non-members of their club.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by x0x0 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @12:11PM (#48478490)

Deliberate bad faith is about right.

Apple was not the problem for rcs; the carriers are and were.

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