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Re: Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management

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Post by whatisthiseven »

overstay8930 wrote: post #179
gizmo wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

So after your basic premise was demonstrated false, you instead just deflect to a nothing statement that couldn't be more false? "Apple is good" "no, they aren't" "for every bad app Apple let's on the platform that makes them extremely rich that they will never ban, and all the spam apps they seem un able to ban, there are definitely way more malware on the play store because Google lets people do whatever"

Which is just not true. It has permissions, app review, and the same broken financial incentives as Apple.

I don't understand how anyone defends Apple's walled thornbush garden. Sure it's in neat rows with paths and it says it's a garden. But it's designed to maximize the amount it gets out of you for Apple's benefit just like Google, to make sure you can't leave, and to make you feel like the thornbush garden of Google is worse because they use gravel for their paths instead of paved stones.

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Post by MarcusE1W »

bengale wrote: post #78
mjburgess wrote: post #24

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It does seem they've mistaken the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better". Since we have so many consumer protections, much of how we end up engaging with the law around business practices is to our benefit . We're always aware we can raise bad business practices with an ombudsman (etc.). So our lived experience of government regulation is, in large part, positive…

> the general sentiment towards government regulation in europe, which is typically, "more, better". I'd need to be convinced that's true. More regulation was a huge part of the successful campaign to get the UK out of the EU. It seems to get effusive praise in places like this, but in daily business, I generally hear the term GDPR spat. Is anyone expecting the incoming car regulation around beeps and bongs every tim…

> I'd need to be convinced that's true. More regulation was a huge part of the successful campaign to get the UK out of the EU.

I think the main reason was that populist politicians where allowed to lie unopposed. £350M per week for the NHS anyone? (End: constants strikes in the NHS about small pay rises to mitigate inflation). Singapore on Thames? Easiest trade agreement in the world? Trade agreement with the US? Free ports everywhere? UK world beating (of course world beating, they can't just be good, or even better than others, they have to aggressive beat them down) in everything ? I haven't heard that for a long time.

As a populist you can say whatever you want as you usually don't have to stand up for it. Same here. Three Prime Ministers in the same legislation period since Brexit was done. The liars are mostly gone but Brexit is still there.

The reason for Brexit was in no small amount that pugilistic lies where allowed unopposed.

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Post by extraduder_ire »

ta1243 wrote: post #139
Mashimo wrote: post #39

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Gosh damn you Denmark! You where super late to the party and then choose to be special :( https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1545/5143/files/Plugs_of_t... That really grinds my gears. But I think the narrow 2 pin plug can be used in most EU countries. --------- >The fact that the EU regulators can arbitrarily go after companies is a real problem. Do they go arbitrarily after companies though?

Yes, europlug works everywhere in mainland EU (Not in Ireland and Cyprus) and indeed in most of the world, which is fine for class 2 devices that the majority of kit you typically move around is.

Malta uses type G plugs also. If you're reasonably familiar with electricity, you can use a europlug with a type G socket even without an adapter. (unless you count a pin/screwdriver to bypass the child gates) In fact, I have both an adapted schuko plug and an unadapted europlug wall wart under my desk right now. I should really get an adapter for the latter one though, so it can be individually fused and make better contact.

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Post by andsoitis »

wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #73
dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #10

What 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…

It's suprising that the US still holds itself as the champion of the free market where it's more a corporate Oligarchy. It's clear Apple is trying to be as monopolistic as possible, understable from their perspective, but it's the EU job to regulate it, just a shame of the US fell so deep.

> It's suprising that the US still holds itself as the champion of the free market where it's more a corporate Oligarchy.

The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal (both American), have been publishing the Index of Economic Freedom since 1995 and don't put the USA in 25th position: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom#Rank...

In some areas the US is clearly the leader in championing the free market, such as the US Freedom of Navitation Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_navigation#United_S...

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Post by yakireev »

overstay8930 wrote: post #66
mdrzn wrote: post #31

Finally more people are figuring out that the EU is a net positive and not a net negative. Love my Europe.

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Funny that you chose Amsterdam to give an example: this is one of the places in Europe where there actually are IT startups - some "home-grown", some moved from elsewhere. "Nobody" is plainly not true.

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Post by marcosdumay »

pjerem wrote: post #104

In fact I’m really amazed that Apple is trying to play games trying to circumvent a brand new regulation (the DMA), while totally ignoring the fact that they are amongst he primary targets of those regulations. It’s like they don’t understand that any circumvent will just sharpen the 1.01 version of the regulation. They are only gaining some time until the next iteration but it just shows that they are afraid they ca…

I doubt they are gaining time.

Any judge will just look and say "hey, that's clearly what the legislators meant from the beginning".

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Post by another-dave »

roenxi wrote: post #51

I quite like the article as far as it goes; but this begs the follow up question - is the strategy working? Because for all their standards and harmonisation, the manufacturing is happening in China and the decisions are being made in North America. This should be an article about how Nokia or equivalent is approaching the US all wrong and not understanding the realities on the ground. I'd put energy in a similar fra…

> but this begs the follow up question - is the strategy working? Because for all their standards and harmonisation, the manufacturing is happening in China and the decisions are being made in North America.

But at least some of the decisions that happen in North America are happening because of EU regulation. For example the push to get all phone manufacturers to standardise on USB chargers

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Post by ben-schaaf »

eadmund wrote: post #168
ragebol wrote: post #68

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The cookie warnings are a result of companies not taking a pretty obvious hint: don't do tracking.

The cookie warnings are dumb, because if an individual wishes not to use cookies, he is free to configure his browser to refuse to use cookies . It is entirely and 100% under the user’s control. Heck, the way the cookie protocol works the server already says ‘hey, may I store this cookie?’ by sending the Set-Cookie header. The user’s browser doesn’t have to do anything if he doesn’t want it to!

There are plenty of use-cases that are covered by implicit consent where the website uses cookies for basic functionality (like login sessions or shopping carts) where no banner is required.

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Post by indymike »

hef19898 wrote: post #103
tsak wrote: post #59

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I don't think any of your links substantiate the claim that US healthcare expenditure subsidises global R&D on healthcare, only that healthcare is more expensive in the US (which I personally think is more due to an extremely ineffective system with an unhealthy amount of middlemen that inflate prices).

You know what disproves this, again right wing US BS to oppose universal healthcare? The financial filings of each and every international pharma company. Regarding defence spending, it is good this point comes up. It replaced masks during Covid as a clear indicator of where a person gets its information from, or how good they are at critical thinking.

> You know what disproves this, again right wing US BS to oppose universal healthcare?

Originally, universal health care was proposed by the Nixon administration, and was a right wing issue. The issue was viewed as an industrial competitiveness issue, and the solution advocated was a single payer system that would move the cost of health off of the balance sheet. I sometimes wonder what would have happened had this idea taken root.

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