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Yeah this is exactly my impression of what makes the DMA suck for a company like Apple. It makes it easier to not offer functionality in Europe. Because to off
by pizlonator 1y ago
Yeah this is exactly my impression of what makes the DMA suck for a company like Apple.
It makes it easier to not offer functionality in Europe. Because to offer the functionality in Europe you have to do the extra work of making sure any competitor who could go crying to the euro officials can plausibly inject a competing thing with equal integration.
- arlcode 1y agoIf they want to offer functionality in Europe they should consider this from the beginning as cost of doing business. They pride themselves as being privacy and security minded when releasing new products. They already have mechanisms to trust some accessories and apps ("my watch" vs. "your watch"). Just offer the same to devices not made by them. If the user then decides to install the (probably illegal) "Meta Spy Master 9000 App" then so be it. They are adults after all. The DMA very explicitly disagrees with the notion of "Apple knows best" and until the tech giants come to terms with that, their comments on the laws cannot be trusted. I would love to see them cooperate because then, over time, their considerable technical knowledge could be used to work out the details.
- jitl 1y agoEven for a big company like Apple or Google, a 10x increase in public API surface area sounds nuts to maintain in terms of cost but chiefly in terms of time: it will be so much slower to evolve a system once it’s festooned with previously private api surfaces that could change quickly, but now need to be public and offer backwards compatibility or you’ll get hit with a DMA fine.