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

(arstechnica.com)
380 points rezonant | 2 comments | 30 Apr 24 04:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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pjerem ◴[30 Apr 24 08:52 UTC] No.40208667[source]▶
You know that EU also have computers engineers ? It’s not like we couldn’t survive without Apple or Google.

Probably nobody wants it to happen but if it were to happen, well, I prefer regulated companies than monopolies.

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1. draugadrotten ◴[30 Apr 24 09:17 UTC] No.40208833[source]▶
> You know that EU also have computers engineers ? It’s not like we couldn’t survive without Apple or Google.

You vastly underestimate how interconnected and dependent the modern tech stack is. EU computer engineers would be thrown back to 1950s if they could not depend on decades of US engineering and services.

I say that as a European.

EU is clearly playing a losing game here and is well on track of becoming the world's largest outdoor museum.

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2. toyg ◴[30 Apr 24 09:50 UTC] No.40209064[source]▶
Apple and Google are not "decades of US engineering". They are two corporations that really exploit decades of (open source) US (and European) engineering to siphon huge profits to tax havens. If they were to exit the EU market, Europeans would still have access to US engineering just fine.