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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@kevm @EUCommission Then do it now.
@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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@lelehier @EUCommission Not afraid of choice. People try to explain why Apple refuses to offer the choice. They implemented their own AI features in a way that they can’t ever access your data. If they open those APIs up to other vendors, they provide them with full access to nearly all data on your device. Apple can’t control what those vendors do with that data. They could easily offer the choice, but how would they warn an average user about what that would mean for access to their data?
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@basketkees @lelehier @EUCommission False. Read Apple’s own press release.
They offered to allow third parties access via a trust layer.
But they won’t use that trust layer themselves.
That’s the whole issue.
if you follow EUCommission the comments underneath is always a sea of reply guys whining and high holy "extremely serious" outrage... on stupid bullshit premises
they're trolls
it's fake astroturfed discontent
they work an anti-EU agenda
they may not even be in the EU (their profiles can lie about where they are from)
they will use any premise to attack
here it is: "how dare you question holy Apple!"
it's lying fake bullshit
attacking the #EU is their real agenda
@lelehier I am with you - I think it is the minority who is afraid to have freedom of choice - and as always, making a choice means to take responsibility, to be able to do so requires a minimum of brain activity. The loudest unfortunately are always the dumbest. @EUCommission
@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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- We also tell car manufacturers that they cannot make products that pollute the air to their own liking.
- We also tell toy manufacturers that they cannot put toxic chemicals in their products.
- We also tell manufacturers of electronic devices that they cannot just slap anything together and not test them
- We also tell producers of medicine that they cannot just put whatever they want in their pills.
Regulation is quite normal - even in the US.
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@jrossstocholm @EUCommission it is yeah, and we can argue which are needed, which ones end up having negative effects.
For me, regarding the DMA, I think the spirit and the idea is good, but results are a net negative (we don’t have iPhone mirroring, we won’t have Siri ai)
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@EUCommission @webjac Yes, we can certainly (and should!) talk about the effects of regulation.
I am pretty sure that one of the reasons for why most of the global tech growth is coming from US is the lack of regulation - or to reverse it: I am sure that the (tight) regulation in Europe will impede growth and move it to other markets. So the "Move fasts and break stuff" credo of e.g., Facebook would not be allowed in Europe.
To me - the consequences of non-regulation is worse. I believe that (by and large) the European GDPR legislation is a fantastic thing, but of course it has an effect on the things we can do in Europe (because suppliers of services cannot do whatever they want with our data).
There is always a trade-off. There is no such thing as a free lunch ...
One more reason for sane US citizens to migrate to Europe:)
