Have you heard of Apple's decision on the rollout of Siri AI in Europe? Let's get the facts straight ⬇️
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@EUCommission On Mastodon of all places, I did not expect Apple users whining in the comments.
@EUCommission Thanks for the clear response. Thoughtful, robust rules support innovation, protect competition, and make life better for all of us in the EU.
Extra props for communicating this clearly and unambiguously.
@EUCommission You are neither acting in the sense of consumers nor in the interests of European software businesses. The problem in this is case is *you* - the EU commission. You are hindering software innovation made in the EU.You are hindering business opportunities. Most users give a shit about third-party AI or third-party integrations. Customers are interested in devices with maximum privacy. This is what Apple stands for. The ego trip of the EU commission is hilarious. Get over it.
@EUCommission this seems like a you problem. Maybe down the road they’ll make the feature modular they have already done so for other agent choices like XCode.
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I am really confused about some of the comments under this post. Are people afraid of... choice?
Sure, trust Apple and just use whatever they recommend, no problem there. But where's the issue in having more choice?
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@EUCommission @gklka Hey, you should tell this to the three people using any “alternative marketplace” on iOS.
As an Apple user, I don’t care who says what. I buy Apple products because of their functionality and seamless integration. These regulations are negatively impacting the user experience of this integration, which you clearly have no fucking clue about. Nobody asked you to disrupt this with any regulations.
Apple's endgame is never to comply with the EU Commission, but rather wait for enough people to complain to the EU Commission to change the rules.
That is the endgame.
@EUCommission how is this different from Gemini on Pixel phones which are allowed and sold in the EU?
@EUCommission Apple is outsourcing it to Google Gemini.
No thanks ...
@EUCommission it's not for you to choose what options a provider give us. If we trust Apple to give us the right choice, it should be our choice as consumer to buy their products with the feature set complete.
You meddling with a free market and telling a private enterprise how they should build their products is a scary thing for a regulatory body to do.
let the market choose on its own.
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One more reason for sane US citizens to migrate to Europe:)
