The regulations around AI in the European Union are not well formed. The EU has shown that they will regulate things years later and impose massive fines and business costs. The EU also happens to be Apple’s least profitable market, and one that isn’t going to be growing over the next two decades. There’s just no reason to get involved over there. It’s not worth the risk.
Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns
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#12Heh. The spite wars continue. I’m sure this will earn you a lot of favor, Apple.
Their new slate of ai products will be able to have screen reading capabilities. There are legitimate concerns for user privacy here. Their agreement with OpenAI is likely very strict.
How do people survive with Linux and Windows.
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#13Nice strategic bluff!
eu hold and they lose sales: "we will suffer for our users. ai will work on eu devices"
eu relax regulations: obvious win.
eu hold and sales keep rising: saves a ton of server costs and blame the government.
it's a win-win-don't-lose
Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns
#14Heh. The spite wars continue. I’m sure this will earn you a lot of favor, Apple.
Their new slate of ai products will be able to have screen reading capabilities. There are legitimate concerns for user privacy here. Their agreement with OpenAI is likely very strict.
There are legitimate concerns for user privacy with any third-party integration, including OpenAI which is why Apple asks you before sending a request to ChatGPT. They solved this problem already, and I guess they want to try and hold EU users over a barrel by claiming interoperability is impossible or something.
Seriously, what kind of fearmongering can Apple push that doesn't make you side-eye the OpenAI integration even more?
Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns
#15The regulations around AI in the European Union are not well formed. The EU has shown that they will regulate things years later and impose massive fines and business costs. The EU also happens to be Apple’s least profitable market, and one that isn’t going to be growing over the next two decades. There’s just no reason to get involved over there. It’s not worth the risk.
this have nothing to do with ai regulations. that's not how politics work.
if they are holding on ai (what can move the government) they are likely wanting leverage on something else (paired sale, charger standardization, who knows). it's definitely things that are costing them profits already.
Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns
#16Heh. The spite wars continue. I’m sure this will earn you a lot of favor, Apple.
> The spite wars continue
There are consequences to regulations/legislation. You can't have it both ways. News at 11...
The privacy concerns are real, and EU regulations have teeth. No matter how iron-clad Apple's agreement is with OpenAI, it's still a significant liability since data protection and the rest that comes with this tech is outside of Apple's control. So now EU citizens don't get to play with this new feature. It's pretty simple.
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#17> “We are concerned that the interoperability requirements of the DMA could force us to compromise the integrity of our products in ways that risk user privacy and data security,” Apple said in a statement. Apart from the “security concerns” of allowing use of non Apple services it will be interesting to hear the specifics of these. I thought most AI features were being released in American English before other local…
> Apart from the “security concerns” of allowing use of non Apple services
I would think that if the EU requires Apple to allow third parties to use the new screen sharing APIs with the same privileges, that would be a security concern.
Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns
#18The regulations around AI in the European Union are not well formed. The EU has shown that they will regulate things years later and impose massive fines and business costs. The EU also happens to be Apple’s least profitable market, and one that isn’t going to be growing over the next two decades. There’s just no reason to get involved over there. It’s not worth the risk.
> The EU has shown that they will regulate things years later and impose massive fines and business costs.
If that makes the EU look bad, imagine how goddamn incompetent the US regulators look right now.
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#19> The company announced Friday it would block the release of [...] iPhone Mirroring [...] from users in the EU this year, because the Digital Markets Act allegedly forces it to downgrade the security of its products and services. Huh?
They might be forced into supporting that feature for non-iPhones or non-macs?
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Deficits might be unmanageable already.