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As a European Apple user I want politicians and bureaucrats leave the company alone! They are not a monopoly, they never will be and won't have Microsofts 90%
by ralfd 2y ago
As a European Apple user I want politicians and bureaucrats leave the company alone!
They are not a monopoly, they never will be and won't have Microsofts 90% desktop market share, so let the damn market sort it out.
- Swenrekcah 2y agoThe market does not work unless the rules of fair play are enforced, just like any other endeavour of humanity from sports to politics.
- ralfd 2y agoThe rules France applies here are not fair and user friendly though: https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/france_merde_decision_app_tracking_transparency https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/france_merde_decision_app... > The bureaucratic hurdles they impose are to the benefit, not detriment, of the surveillance ad industry. That’s now proven out by industry groups — the ones ATT successfully tempered — successfully getting France’s regulators to penalize Apple. Users don’t know how to lobby government bureaucracies. What the Autorité de la Concurrence is saying, in so many words, is that two layers of consent is too much, and the only one that’s necessary is the one that advertising lobbying groups don’t object to, not the one they do (but which users understand and like).