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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by viktorcode on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:04PM (#48465961)
You should remember that according to a court testimony the whole European area (which goes beyond EU) gives Apple 7% of their revenue, whereas breaking DMCA may incur penalties of ups to 10% of global turnover.

Those numbers make withholding "risky" products a no-brainer strategy. Also, those numbers put a hard limit of how much Apple will want reevaluate their general strategy of tightly integrated first-party software.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by solid_fuel on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:03PM (#48466885)
Why do you keep bringing up DMCA?

> The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a 1998 United States copyright law

The DMCA is a law in the United States, it's not related in any way to Apple's decision to not roll out Siri in the EU.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by t-sauer on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:07PM (#48466024)
Which court testimony are you talking about? A quick google search suggests that Europe is responsible for roughly 25% of their revenue.

Edit: 26% of their net sales comes from Europe for Q1: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2026-q1/FY26_Q1_Consol...

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:13PM (#48466141)
there's a difficulty in evaluating how much goes into Apple revenue because Apple mixes Europe (not just EU) and Middle East.

The 7% probably comes from a Daring Fireball article, based on misunderstanding some Apple communications, and which Gruber later had to backtrack

https://medium.com/luminasticity/when-smart-people-cant-reas...

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by viktorcode on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:37PM (#48466516)
Yes, I was coming from Gruber's article, thank you for correcting me!
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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by ChrisClark on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:07PM (#48469066)
Using an old AI to comment? What does the DMCA have to do with it?
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