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In the light of the new normal of the world, EU should just follow the Chinese and American ways: ban foreign social media and telecommunication devices. This w
by mrtksn 2y ago
In the light of the new normal of the world, EU should just follow the Chinese and American ways: ban foreign social media and telecommunication devices. This way it will guarantee that there’s a market for those willing to create EU specific devices and meanwhile will take back control of its comms.
The EU way of open market through regulations doesn’t seem to make anybody happy.
Banning worked wonders for China, Russia and USA. Nobody seems to be complaining.
The claim is that AI can write the software, ban everything and tell ChatGPT o3 to write you the alternative :)
- stavros 2y ago> The EU way of open market through regulations doesn’t seem to make anybody happy. Makes me, and probably every other EU consumer, super happy.
- betaby 2y ago> Makes me, and probably every other EU consumer, super happy. We wouldn't know, unless you said that. On a USA server, of course.
- stavros 2y agoAnd yet the GP assumed otherwise.
- tzekid 2y agoIt doesn't make me happy. The more the EU regulates, the less innovation we have. It's not a meme, it's reality
- zipping1549 2y agoAll those innovations can and have happen(ed) with them also being open and not anti-competitive. If Apple is not willing to bring new features because it can't build its walled garden with it, nuts to them and others will and win them. That's the whole point of competition.
- stavros 2y agoSure, and also the less slavery we have, the fewer pyramids we build. They're all tradeoffs.
- frizlab 2y agoMake me, an EU consumer, incredibly mad. I do not want interoperability or openness. I chose a closed ecosystem for a reason. Now it’s being pried open and I hate it.
- zipping1549 2y agoWhy is that maddening to you? It's not like you're forced to use 3rd party app store or 3rd party browser. What exactly do you lose from people being able to use what Apple has been using to gatekeep?
- frizlab 2y agoFirst the popup for the browser is obnoxious and insufferable. And on all devices now, not by account like they did at first, like it should have been (like so else on HN told me “but it’s only once you’ll forget about it!” now I’ve had it at least 5 times already), because of EU decisions. Also I don’t have to use a third-party App Store now. What do you think will happen when my BANK will decide they don’t want to go through the App Store? Or when they decide to stop supporting Apple Pay because FU? I WANT the ecosystem to be unbreakable because it is more convenient. It is the OTHER WAY AROUND we should think. Nobody ever forced anybody to buy an iPhone. Why should Apple be forced to do anything “for the good of the consumer?” It is not and has never been for the consumer anyway, it’s for the companies that are “missing out.” And it actually might even be what makes me the most mad: the hypocrisy. It is not for the consumer, it is for other companies to make more profit. At least tell it like it is, don’t try to sell it like it’ll profit me, the consumer. I know what I want and it’s not that.
- matheusmoreira 2y agoIt makes me extremely happy. My country will copy whatever the EU does, shouldn't take long before I can enjoy the same benefits as a consumer. And nobody really cares if the trillion dollar corporation is unhappy about it.
- jaredklewis 2y agoI can’t tell if this is satire.