‘Unfair’ EU rules are delaying features for European users, the tech giant says.

“Bureaucrats in Brussels” are unfairly challenging Apple’s closed ecosystem and denying users the “magical, innovative experience” that makes the firm unique, Apple said.

The so-called walled garden that combines Apple’s products and software ensures a safe and high quality experience for users, it says, but EU regulators counter that it unfairly shuts out rivals.

  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Can I play devil’s advocate here?

    Apple’s closed ecosystem competes with Google and others’ “open” ecosystems, but they have different financial strategies. Google and others make money from almost monopolized services and data collection, actual price of their products is kinda low. Apple makes money from what their users pay inside their ecosystem.

    Apple has a visible nickel-and-dime trap, most of big tech have those traps far more subtle.

    So in absolutes their game is unfair, but in relatives they are by far neither the worst offenders nor the most dangerous.

    Competitive financial strategies in tech are still a problem. We have FOSS projects pretending to have a way, but increasingly corporate-controlled, we have “good” companies which all went bankrupt 20 years ago, and we have “bad” companies which were too “good” then compared to now, and we have vultures like Google and Facebook. And we have Apple which was one of the “good” ones, but lines and graphs kinda didn’t work well, and then they found a way, and then another.

    It might well be that with forward pricing, not implicit costs, Apple devices would cost 2x what they cost now, and other stuff as much as Apple devices.

    And if regulations force them to do that, it’s fine, except the transient process matters. Kill Google and MS before killing Apple, if shorter.