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Because a country has an interest in protecting the safety and security of its citizens, not choose winners and losers of a global market. And considering Apple
by enos_feedler 5y ago
Because a country has an interest in protecting the safety and security of its citizens, not choose winners and losers of a global market. And considering Apple’s valuable brand is essentially built on safety and security it would be a bit strange to kick them or build rules that only they seem to breaking.
If you want to look at “transaction” as the activity that a government should look closely at then I think there is a bigger thing to look at right now; people tossing their money into shitcoins. If governments aren’t spending cycles looking carefully into the blockchain transactions of their citizens they shouldnt be spending too much time worrying about whether an iPhone user can choose to use their credit card with a different processor inside of apps
- shadilay 5y agoIf Europe forces Apple to lower its commission by say 25%, that goes directly into the pockets of European companies, individuals, and taxes. It's a huge economic benefit. Why should they care if it makes some American monopoly sad?
- bradknowles 5y agoNo, it doesn’t. Relatively little of that money will stay local. The primary result will be that Apple will be hurt, and other multinational companies that benefit from Apple being hurt will rejoice — and the politicians who passed the laws will make their multinational paymasters happy.
- enos_feedler 5y agoEven if this cause/effective were to be true, are we really going to reduce the job of Europe and other nations to ignore reason/philosophy/etc and set rules just to put more money into the pockets of local companies/people? I mean in that case, there are LOTS of things a government could arbitrarily do with their power to bring more money home. But they don’t. Because they have principles