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They might try those things. But what if the EU just turns around and fines them x% of global revenue for that? The EU law could effectively force Apple to op
by stale2002 3y ago
They might try those things.
But what if the EU just turns around and fines them x% of global revenue for that?
The EU law could effectively force Apple to open up. Ex: who says the law only applies to EU sim cards?
What if, the law instead applied to EU citizens, and if an EU citizen happens to have an American sim card, well then that's Apple's problem and they have to allow US sim cards to side load.
Playing clever games could just result in billions in fines and Apple being ordered to change anyway.
- klausa 3y agoThis is _unlikely_; but you're being unfairly downvoted — AFAICT that's the EU's stance to GDPR — that it applies to EU citizens _worldwide_, as well as EU _residents_ so a pure region/geolock is not going to cut it.
- f001 3y agoInteresting. I’m a EU citizen but not resident. Would I be able to convince Meta et al that GDPR applies to me?
- klausa 3y agoYou might want to contact some organisations that deal with this, like NOYB [1]. IANAL, and I think the law is... more sophisticated than just "EU citizens worldwide"; but it happens to catch most of bigTech's anyway; because a bunch of their operations are legally running out of Ireland (for tax avoidance reasons) [2]; but I'll readily admit that this mostly something I have seen mentioned online few times and didn't do any deep research on. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOYB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOYB [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement