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Comment by KerrAvon | Hacker News Reader

Either the lack of technical literacy on the EU’s part is a real issue, or the EU wants non-European tech companies to fold up their Euro tents completely and stop selling their products in EU countries. That’s the logical end result of this and the gatekeeper nonsense.

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Given the compromises the Apple is willing to make to keep their foot in China’s market, you can be sure that neither of the big tech companies is willing to give up on the EU market. Let alone allow the vacuum to be scooped up by a more favourable tech company.

Yep, perhaps if Apple/Google decided to be more hesitant to work with more difficult markets all of this wouldn't happen.

Those who can no longer innovate regulate.

Europeans do innovate, they just sell to GAFAM afterwards. (-:

Sisvel is pledging for 0.1~0.3 euros on AV1-capable hardware here, europe has done much worse (like with the OOXML standard) and unfortunately got away with it. This doesn't particularly affect the EU as a market, it's applied globally.

That's quite a lot on some 0.5-3eur SoC. No wonder it is being fought and why nothing cheap has AV1 hardware.

I doubt that EU wants companies to leave the market and they don't seem to encourage the growth of profitable European competitors to Google/Apple, so most likely it's the literacy issue and on top of that they're "surveying the grounds" to see how far can they go.

I mean, i would understand if the "gatekeeper" stuff was pushed by countries/organizations that have little to no manufacturing prowess, but it's Europe we're talking about and there's no way that the EU doesn't understand what they're doing (unless...).

Neither. The EU just wants to shake as much money out of the tree as possible given that growing the trees domestically has not really worked out.

Genuinely, which company/entity in the world has full technical literacy in your eyes ? China ?

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