The title of this piece is actually: "Facing reality, whether it’s about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management"
Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes each time we see these cookie warnings, we admire a system that does so much to our benefit
Nothing in the law requires those cookie banners. If you don't agree, you can quote to me the exact passage in the GDPR where it talks about cookies, banners, or browsers. Or you can read what Github has to say about this: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
The cookie law predates the GDPR by several years. See discussion at https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/11/13/1348222/breathtaking... for instance
Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Including USB-C? I find that hard to believe.
And roaming charges? Who doesn't like paying every time they go abroad for something that is now entirely free.
And the fact that we went from having to pay a few € for 500MB to having (with Iliad) 10 GB FREE roaming in the whole EU? Damn I love the EU so much.
Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#174I understand where the author is coming from and It is important to have a realist perspective on what is driving European strategy or else we will be in denial. I think it's also important to recognize that the west are interconnected in many real ways beyond economic. The first and most clearly top of mind recently is the US defense umbrella which allows the EU to invest on other things instead of defense. Another…
> The first and most clearly top of mind recently is the US defense umbrella which allows the EU to invest on other things instead of defense.
In the past 30-40 years the US has been the direct or indirect cause of most of the world's conflicts and wars. "US defense umbrella" has cost the EU more than its claimed benefit.
> the fact that they have much better benefits provided by their governments and hence their money goes a lot further. That is of course related to the fact that they are not generally paying much for defense.
Ah yes. Europeans have benefits because US spends so much on military. I find no fault in this logic.
Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
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I thought all the big banks and big companies were fleeing to the US for the same reason? The whole EU banking sector is worth as much as one big US bank.
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Why would we compare ourself to American standards? GDP isn't everything. We have universal healthcare and vacations.
Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#176What amazes and perplexes me is that Apple thinks it can effectively play politics against the EU and that somehow their customers will back them in the face of the "consequences" Apple applies, which are pretty transparent and really quite amateurish (eg no more web apps for you!). As the article states, the first mistake Apple makes is thinking the EU is somehow like the US, but I can't see how any large proportion…
Careful, there are some Apple fanboys defending Apple for their beautiful UX that does things only to simplify and make life better, not to monetize - that's just a small side effect.
PS: I own several Apple devices, but I can still recognize mafia methods.
Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
The cookie warnings are a result of companies not taking a pretty obvious hint: don't do tracking.
Any lawmaker with an ounce of foresight would have recognized the pervasive cookie banners as the logical consequence of the law. If you give companies an easy copy-and-paste way to get around a single regional law then they will do the quickest dumbest thing possible to get what they want no matter who the visitor is and where they're located. The EU laws are poorly conceived, poorly written, and now we all have to…
I agree that EU laws are far from perfect, but I 100% would rather have the GDPR than not have it.
With AI what I saw in the news mostly made sense and did not hinder development too much. But again I would rather they regulate the use because it will have real negative consequences for many people if they don't
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am European and hate all the regulations they’ve done so far. I know it’s a very rare pov, but for me all of these new legislations are terrible both for the consumers AND the small developers (which I am both). The ONLY people getting something are the somewhat big companies.
You hate (not dislike, actively hate ) 861/2007, the European Small Claims procedure? and 1007/2011, you are really that opinionated on textile fibre names?
Hey, textile fibres arw worn by everyone everyday!
Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple saw what happened when Google was nice to developers and got shitty camera views in apps and adobe flash. Apple has rightfully concluded that developers do not deserve to have any freedom on their platform because they immediately abuse it for their benefit and to the detriment of the user. Devs got so bad meta lost billions in value when Apple set up a privacy transparency feature in the App Store, say what yo…
Any platform operator needs policies to protect users against spam and abuse. But does Apple do a good job at this? No. Many of the popular app store apps are low quality games that exploit addiction with loot-box mechanics. But those scam apps make money for Apple so it's fine. Apple does not keep spam and other crap from the App store, but it does police high quality apps that offer their own subscription services.…
For every shitty spam app in the App Store there’s straight up malware on the play store