Post #2419776
2024-03-07 06:35 UTC
@zbrando@social.vivaldi.net @rustyshelf@mastodon.social I'll believe it when I see it. And I expect the next two headlines to read "Apple closing all retail stores across Europe" and then "Consumers outraged over EU's Apple fiasco, demand accountability".
Because consumers don't care about alternative app stores. They just want their phones and laptops.
Apple has insane cash-on-hand and could easily outlast any such embargo, IMO
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@elessar@social1.ortolo.eu 2024-03-07 08:36
@neatchee@urusai.social @zbrando@social.vivaldi.net @rustyshelf@mastodon.social Do you remember Apple switching their phone models to USB-C, starting with iPhone 15, worldwide? If you believe that was their own decision, for the sake of their customers, you are wrong. They we forced into doing so, by EU's teeth. If they did not obey, all their phone would have become illegal to sell in the EU. Maybe you think that was just bluff, but Apple did not, which is all that matters.
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@krushev@hachyderm.io 2024-03-07 15:08
@neatchee@urusai.social @zbrando@social.vivaldi.net @rustyshelf@mastodon.social If "consumers don't care about alternative app stores", who are the EU rules created for?