No, EU adds only bureaucracy and regulations. There won't be another 'EU Apple', quite the opposite.
> I am SO looking forward to the EU smashing Apple to pieces
Exactly this, you are not looking EU having their own companies of the Apple/Google scale. You are willing to smash something to pieces.
"When a customer buys an Apple product outside the United States, the profit is first taxed in the country where the sale takes place. Then Apple pays taxes to Ireland, where Apple sales and distribution activity is executed by some of the 6,000 employees working there. Additional tax is then also due in the US when the earnings are repatriated."
of course as means of power like NSA-level information you have them :)
and in the end, third party cookies are banned (cookie banners is not required actually if you do not have tracking)
you should read dma to understand the matter more :) https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
dictatorship has of course its advantages too, you do not have to think or choose
But now, reading it again - I indeed might have misunderstood the comment as "There won't be a company like Apple coming from the EU" (which I agree to), while they might actually have meant "Apple can't split in half to apply different rules for the EU and the US". That I would absolutely not agree to. Apple is apply to comply with Chinese laws to the fullest extend, which at least at this point in history still differ quite a lot with the US ones ;)
It's just that Apple for now is still taking Chinese authorities more seriously than the EU ones...
(But maybe I am now misunderstanding YOUR interpretation of the parent-posting. Dunno.)
No, the EU is not acting this way because they want an "EU Apple". Nobody over here has the illusion of any such mega corporation ever coming out of the EU. The IT industry we once had was killed mostly by price dumping from China in the late 2000ies.
Those mega-corporations are solely coming from non-free regions. If there is someone right now starting to massively take away market share from US mega corporations, then it's Chinese mega corporations.
The EU are doing this because they wish to protect the basic rights of their citizens. Well, and they are not purely doing this out of their own - a small number of hacker activist for the last couple of years have sued pretty much all EU institutions to make them enforce the laws we have here.
I would recommend you check out the very first three words of the US constitution again. Spoiler Alert: It's not "We the oligarchs" :)
But anyway: There is nothing left over here that could only remotely catch up with the pace technology is developing in the US and China. We would be 10+ years late to any such game.
So: It's really just about making sure some of our basic human rights, democracy and free markets survive while the US and China are fighting it out on who is going to control us.
Yep, so `smash 'em`?
> basic human rights
Try again, perhaps revive 'Chatcontrol' again? This time it definitely will help.
And in regards of the chat control shit: Yes, this has been going on for decades now and pops up again and again. Originally it was pushed into the EU by the US via the UK. The crypto wars in the US appear to be over for now, but some European right-wingers are still dreaming about it.
But just this week the European Court of Human Rights has decided "chat control", aka weakening end-to-end-encryption is a violation of basic human rights.
This doesn't mean that the right wingers in various EU countries won't try again, but it's pretty futile. We, the people, won.
i don’t know what case you’re making, but “sore losers” isn’t a winning one.
> Those mega-corporations are solely coming from non-free regions.
all of them come from a place that is a lot more free than any country in the EU: the US.
> The EU are doing this because they wish to protect the basic rights of their citizens.
this is naive.
Less naive, I guess.
I'm not playing your "sore losers" game. You are implying that all there is left to fight about is which mega corporations shall be in control of your personal rights.
Fine, if that's what you want.
I want to be in control of my data, and to be in control of the hardware I own.
This doesn't limit your freedom to have Musk, Google, Apple or whoever control your hardware. Give them your private keys. Give them your brain. All your choice and fine for me.
But my hardware stays my hardware, my freedom stays my freedom, and my data stays my data :)
Just because I demand to be in control of my hardware and data instead of a corporation or oligarch does not limit YOUR rights to have a corporation or oligarch to be in control of your hardware and data in any way.
So what do you have to lose? What fight are your fighting here? What's wrong with EU people wishing to keep some of their basic human rights and a free market? It does not limit you. Just because Apple is forced to play by the rules in the EU does not limit them to play by the the-winner-takes-it-all concept that now appears to be common in the US now over there.
i think the EU will continue to split the internet for people like yourself. while the rest of world will continue doing what they do.
i wish you and your data all the best.
Isn't, literally, that the job of the government?