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IMHO Apple will thank EU for this because Digital Markets Act will save Apple from itself. I'm a huge Apple fanboy and I'm happy with the walled garden HOWEVER
by mrtksn 3y ago
IMHO Apple will thank EU for this because Digital Markets Act will save Apple from itself.
I'm a huge Apple fanboy and I'm happy with the walled garden HOWEVER Apple begun engaging in rent seeking and missing out on innovation and I really, really want Apple to succeed because they are the tech company that cares about user experience over false metrics like megapixels and screen to body ratio.
Apple's rent seeking on NFC already causes me bad user experience because when I'm not somewhere where Apple Pay is supported, I miss out on banking apps that support NFC.
Also, governments(UK, EU, USA - all of them) are eager to turn the tech companies into a police and there's a war in Europe and political turmoil all over the world where you and hundreds of millions are at risk of falling at the wrong side of the aggressive dominant political movements.
I'm sure Tim Cook and anybody at Apple wouldn't want to be the tech suppliers who helped governments to enforce policies that some time in the future might be viewed just as badly as the German policies around 1940s.
At this very moment, Apple might believe that they are on the right side of the history but what happens if Trump wins in a year? What happens if the far right in EU begins dominating the politics? They are angry and they want vengeance, they go after people all the time. Maybe Apple was able to say F.U. to the UK and said it will not implement spying into its iMessage&Facetime services and leave UK if they have to but can they do the same in USA for example? Can Apple say no to Trump admin and leave the US markets if they decide to ban encryption so they can hunt down the "enemies of the state" and "dry the swamp".
Very dangerous times, no company should be in position to become the police.
- seec 3y agoI understand where you come from, but I believe it is way too late for that. I used to be an Apple "fanboy", way more moderate than the term suggests but up until 2016-2017 I thought their approach made more sense and was seeking the best compromise possible. But now they are too far gone in the money making, empire building side. I believe the culture that built the Apple we loved is completely dead now and all the people that were the keepers of that have either moved out themselves or got pushed out by management to make way for the new culture of ultra greed rent seeking. I think it is naive to believe we can go back to what Apple was. It is a shell of itself and even the hardware products are somewhat nice but feel very bland and uninspired for the price (they also have a lot of performance/durability problems because of cost cutting, margin chasing). And this time there is not Steve Jobs to come back. In my opinion it is better to see the objective truth, cut your losses and move on to another cheaper and more open platform. There is not much to expect from Apple, it's all downhill from here...