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Apple should get out of the European market entirely. Their product offering is literally incompatible with the laws that govern EU commerce. There's plenty of
by k33n 3y ago
Apple should get out of the European market entirely. Their product offering is literally incompatible with the laws that govern EU commerce.
There's plenty of money to be made in Asia/Pacific and the Americas.
Apple's walled-garden approach is innovative especially on the security and stability fronts and anyone who doesn't like that or wants alternative launchers should jailbreak their ios device or just use Android, which does fit better into EU market.
Apple has literally never cared and should never care what outside bodies (including to a large degree -- their own customers) want their products to be. It's what has made them unique in the past.
If Apple backs down on their vision then they are no longer Apple.
- andersa 3y agoApple is making many billions selling hardware and services in the EU - investors would cook them for that move.
- lapcat 3y agoApple's last quarter results: $30 billion in net sales from Europe, their second largest market behind the Americas. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q1/FY24_Q1_Consolidated_Financial_Statements.pdf https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q1/FY24_Q1_Consol...
- lm411 3y ago> Apple's walled-garden approach is innovative especially on the security and stability fronts and anyone who doesn't like that or wants alternative launchers should jailbreak their ios device or just use Android, which does fit better into EU market. This how I feel completely. I use quite few different devices & operating systems on a daily basis (MacOS, iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD) and they all have their place. I use a Mac for my primary workstation and an iPhone for my primary phone specifically because I want security, stability, and usability on those devices. Also, the Apple ecosystem & iCloud, are very convenient for sharing / collaborating with household family members. Don't get me wrong - many Linux distros are very stable and secure. But the "year of the Linux Desktop" is still far out. I actually feel it's further out now than it was 5 years ago. Which is too bad, because I am an avid Linux user and have used it since Slackware 3.0 / kernel 1.2.13. Easily 50% time spent on my Mac is just using a terminal logged into Linux or BSD based servers. If I wanted a single phone, for fun, learning, hacking, etc, it would definitely not be an iPhone. But that's not what I want / need in my phone at this point in my life. It often seems that the people pushing so hard for Apple to change its ways are not the people that actually use Apple Products, but rather individuals projecting their own beliefs and preferences onto others.
- askonomm 3y agoAs an EU citizen, I love Apple products and would hate if I had to use subpar alternatives like Windows/Linux laptops or Android phones, so I for one would like if this would end in a way that Apple would remain in EU.
- samatman 3y agoIt won't end with Apple, you know. The EU's arrogance is going to impoverish the entire continent.
- realusername 3y agoThey didn't get out of China despite having their iCloud servers owned by the CCP, don't worry they won't get out of the EU.
- drooopy 3y agoApple investors would publicly crucify tim cook in the middle of their spaceship campus if he were to take the company out of Europe.
- jsnell 3y agoApple hasn't left China. They'll rather compromise both their product vision and their Chinese users than then leave a market that's smaller (for them) than the EU.
- abhinavk 3y agoThey should totally allow users to jailbreak/root their device. This is what people were expecting, not Apple-authorized alternative stores. > If Apple backs down on their vision then they are no longer Apple. They already did it in China.