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For nations with the technical & legal staff and time required to review, address and negotiate updated legal terms with Google and Apple, that may be true. Si
by jka 7y ago
For nations with the technical & legal staff and time required to review, address and negotiate updated legal terms with Google and Apple, that may be true.
Since you sound familiar with the situation, can you provide a link/reference to evidence of a country trivially changing the behaviour of an operating-system level feature like GACT after it has been deployed?
- chefkoch 7y agoThere was a special Windows version for the EU.
- jka 7y agoThank you. Are you referring to the "Microsoft Corp. v Commission of the European Communities" case[1]? (lodged in 2004, resolved in 2007 - and led to the release of a version of Windows without Windows Media Player installed-by-default) [1] - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62004TJ0201 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62...
- threeseed 7y agoGovernments don't need to negotiate with Apple/Google they just pass a law. Example being Russia which told phone makers to either pre-install their apps or stop selling their products. Or EU pretty much telling the entire software industry how high to jump with GDPR.
- comex 7y agoThis comes to mind: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20903613/apple-hiding-taiwan-flag-emoji-hong-kong-macau-china https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20903613/apple-hiding-tai...