Can’t imagine how this could be perceived as anything but retaliation for the EU daring to attempt to regulate Apple
Yeah exactly. Remember when they wanted to kill PWAs in Europe blaming the DMA? They had to revert course eventually due to backlash.
It’s very easy for them to twist the history. Losing PWA would have really sucked. I use those quite extensively, even if they aren’t perfect
Nah, it makes sense. Apple really likes their proprietary walled garden, so the interoperability requirements trouble them deeply.
No.
Interoperability is only required, if you have a significant market share. Apple does not have this in the EU. iMessage specifically doesn’t fall under this regulation, since hardly anyone uses it.
And since Apple plans to publish an SDK for their intelligence anyway, you can’t really regulate them for being too closed.
So either that’s a purely political retaliation, or their “super privacy friendly” services aren’t as privacy friendly as they claim.
Apple does have a significant market share of 25-30% in Europe. Just because they avoided having to open iMessage (for now) because everyone in Europe uses WhatsApp, doesn’t mean other Apple services are safe from regulation.
But I’m with you - it’s more likely about (not so) privacy.
Funny how companies believe they are punishing you by withholding AI crap nobody wants.
Data privacy AND not having to deal with more bullshit AI? Oh my, how will we ever cope with this… /s
wasn’t the main point of apples ai that it runs on device? asking explicitly every time it might need to send data anywhere else seems fine
There’s apparently different tiers, where some stuff is done locally but anything slightly complex would require it go to apple’s servers.
Apple’s may start being salty and blame everything on anti-trust from now on.
Why were your beans cold this morning? EU’s DMA.
Why did you get delayed to your event? EU’s DMA.
Why did it rain on the one day you were planning to take a trip? EU’s DMA, of course.
sounds like EU really dodged that bullet. Good on them.
Y’all just becoming luddites afraid of big scary tech. Oh no, the big bad siri 2 is going to hurt me!!!
Why are you using Lemmy then? Go back to reddit if you aren’t scared of them
Look into what the luddites actually where, instead of repeating propaganda
Who cares.
If Apple don’t want to compete fair in the market, then others will.
And no iPhone user will miss an AI feature. Most of them don’t even understand how to use 80% of the phones features anyway.
then others will
Unfortunately, I don’t think the others want to compete fair either. It’s a big race to shove garbage to consumers.
I cant wait for all the small smartphone manufacturers and os developers to come up with their solutions.
