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Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says

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380 points rezonant | 1 comments | 30 Apr 24 04:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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mullingitover ◴[30 Apr 24 07:00 UTC] No.40208025[source]▶
EU seems like it’s just going to keep daring Apple to exit their market. I’m looking forward to their regulations requiring Apple to write open source drivers for the alternative operating system installs they’ll be required to allow.
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AlchemistCamp ◴[30 Apr 24 07:41 UTC] No.40208236[source]▶
It will probably happen at some point. In 1990, the EU was easy to do business in and represented 25% of world GDP. Now it’s exceeding difficult to do business in and represents just 14% of world GDP. If those two trends continue, there will be a point where it’s just not worth it for large companies to be threatened with fines on their “global turnover”.
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1. sham1 ◴[30 Apr 24 08:31 UTC] No.40208545[source]▶
If "easy to do business in" and having a large percentage of global GDP requires the ability for tech companies to exploit their users, then I for one am glad as a EU citizen to give up on those to be able to have tech companies curtailed like this, and I wish for the EC to make business even more difficult here.

Nothing is stopping companies from acting in a way that isn't anti-customer, other than the fact that anti-customer behaviour is more profitable than acting properly in the single market. We're finally seeing these externalities be addressed and be made slightly better, even if there's still so much more that could be done.