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Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

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Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

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Post by alphabetting »

spideymans wrote: post #49
armada651 wrote: post #41

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I would much prefer that to living in a state where Apple holds the power to simply kill any law or regulation they dislike by threatening not to launch their products in the EU.

EU productivity is already lagging its peers. Being locked out of having the most cutting edge technologies will further plunge the block into a productivity decay. Less productivity means everyone in Europe will get poorer, with declining living standards. This is not an outcome Europe can afford, especially considering its aging workforce. There is no silver lining to this. The EU has to stop strangling its most pr…

Good thing Apple Intelligence isn't the most cutting edge technology

Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

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Post by Nasrudith »

mistrial9 wrote: post #24
kmlx wrote: post #10

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sentimental slop -- the USA has a teen mental health epidemic, plastics trash in the waterways, tire residue in the fresh water, and many other avoidable woes.. 100x for China. In a longer time frame, pushback is healthy for stability

Don't be so smug about it, plastics in the waterways and tire residue in the fresh water are global problems.

Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

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Post by jdminhbg »

evbogue wrote: post #46
jdminhbg wrote: post #17

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> 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.

I kind of figure if I'm sharing a constant stream of screenshots of my screen with one company why not share them with every company? Might as well send it to the hackers too, I guess. This way I can have more AIs analyzing my screen.

I'm pretty sure that SharePlay screensharing is encrypted like FaceTime is, so I don't think you're sharing that stream of screenshots with Apple by using it. Their concern would be that if you allow third parties to use that API, they might stream your screen elsewhere.

Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

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Post by Nasrudith »

russdpale wrote: post #23
talldayo wrote: post #18

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> 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.

Corrupt, that is how US regulators look, and everyone knows it. But this is the website that is spawning far right fascists who are advocating for political violence in the bay area, so I don't think you will get a lot of reasonable takes here.

Umm... where exactly? Politically I've mostly seen a growing infestation of very lost communists who forget they are at a venture capital backed website.

Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

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Post by timeon »

kmlx wrote: post #10

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> As a European, it’s incredibly sad to see this trend: the “right to forget” (HTTP status 451), GDPR, cookie prompts, losing the UK, DMA and DSA, Chat Control, immigration issues, Germany’s anti-nuclear stance, the war in Ukraine, high gas and oil prices, COVID-19 deaths, even the storming of Tesla’s factory.

With the way how you mentioned these things side-by-side maybe you just need pause from social-media.

Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

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Post by nar001 »

janandonly wrote: post #63

I guess many more will want to identify themselves as European now. Jokes aside, this feels like Apple’s effort to jab at the EU market for forcing them to allow other App stores and forcing RCS on them.

RCS was China, not the EU

Re: Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns

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Post by spideymans »

Arn_Thor wrote: post #57
spideymans wrote: post #49

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EU productivity is already lagging its peers. Being locked out of having the most cutting edge technologies will further plunge the block into a productivity decay. Less productivity means everyone in Europe will get poorer, with declining living standards. This is not an outcome Europe can afford, especially considering its aging workforce. There is no silver lining to this. The EU has to stop strangling its most pr…

Productivity is not a goal in itself. It is a means to a healthy and happy populace. Europe doesn’t have record breaking GDP but features many of the happiest people in the world. Different values result in different measures of success, I guess

Productivity is ultimately the measure of the efficiency of human labor. The more productive workers are, the more free time they’ll have to do whatever it is they want to do to make themselves happy.

In the short term, lagging productivity can be masked by debt spending and other measures, but in the long run, the only thing that increases human wealth and material abundance is labor productivity. Everything else is illusionary.

All human societies have sought to increase labor productivity. The first stone tools, agriculture, and nuclear reactors are all productivity-enhancing inventions. Any society that opts out of seeking labor productivity will eventually see their wealth, living standards, and ultimately happiness decline. There is no way out of that trap.

And to be clear, there’s absolutely nothing good about low productivity for workers. All that means is that you’re spending more time working for lower wages, to produce things of lower value.

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