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Laws and strategy are not fixed, and public bickering is part of how they get optimized.
by jefftk 4mo ago
Laws and strategy are not fixed, and public bickering is part of how they get optimized.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo agoThat’s fair. Apple bickers in the EU and U.S. It doesn’t in China. I have a clear preference for one set of political systems.
- square_usual 4mo agoThey aren't releasing it in China either.
- t-sauer 4mo agoAnd they are framing the completely different in that case.
- seanmcdirmid 4mo agoYet. But they are probably working with Chinese partners (including the government) on releasing something (maybe with Alibaba models instead of Google models, on a Chinese-local cloud rather than google cloud).
- robocat 4mo agoA quick check showed it is estimated that Apple gets about 18% of it's profits from China but only maybe 7% from EU countries (ignore Apple's definition of Europe!). Maybe China is easier to work with - perhaps their rules are made clearer?
- seanmcdirmid 4mo agoChina has 1.4 billion people and they are rapidly increasing their wealth. The only surprising factor is that Chinese cell phone producers haven't eaten up apple's marketshare yet.
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- catlikesshrimp 4mo agoAs I understood it, you prefer systems with less freedom of speech.
- lxgr 4mo agoNothing usually gets fixed by making belligerent appeals to emotion in the court of public opinion (which, in the EU, isn't nearly rooting for Apple as much as they might imagine, fwiw). If you want to launch something in a market you know to be heavily regulated, you figure it out or you don't launch. Sure, drop a hint here and there when asked in interviews about your product strategy, but you generally don't pick a public fight with the regulator or legislator in question. Just imagine a European bank publishing a press release about how onerous the US credit card consumer protection laws are, or a Japanese car maker publicly whining about European car safety testing protocols delaying the market release of some of their models. Apple really is behaving in a very unusual way here. And even though I don't like the implication of this (the law should not disadvantage anyone purely for being critical of it), I can't help but wonder how many fewer pages the DMA would be if Apple had engaged with its predecessors in good faith instead.
- JumpCrisscross 4mo ago> imagine a European bank publishing a press release about how onerous the US credit card consumer protection laws are, or a Japanese car maker publicly whining about European car safety testing protocols Both of these happen. European banks complain about American securities law. And all manner of car makers delay releasing vehicles in America and the EU.
- lxgr 4mo agoDefinitely, but both tone and forum of the complaints are generally pretty different.