EU users can't update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long
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I was in Japan for a little while and it would have been very helpful to download a few particular Android apps for payments, trains, etc but those apps could only be downloaded if your Google account country was set to Japan and you can only change your country once a year. A friend of mine didn't realize that and is now still locked into Japanese only apps even though they're back in the US.
So I'm wondering, did anybody try if this works with multiple users on Android? On iOS apparently you can log into separate accounts for iCloud and the App store, but never tried that either.
EU has a higher floor and a low ceiling: you’ll always have dignity and a decent quality of life, but it’s also harder to become obscenely rich because there are limits on how much you can exploit people.
Whereas, in the USA you can be left in the gutter to die or be given the tools to be the richest person on the planet provided your willing to exploit people.
Keep the EU citizenship to get that floor, come to the USA to be evil!
The problem is that while living in the US you run the risk of violent crime, mass shootings and general crime being obscenely higher than in the EU (or any other developed country).
Also you're always only one major health problem away from bankruptcy.
And your wife and daughter have less rights every day in some states.
Risk v Reward I suppose.
Countries have been divided along stages of development. This has led many of the countries who've developed critical technologies to turn a blind in the name of a "wait and see" approach to regulation. On the other hand, many regions that have been historically important players, like the EU, have seen technological penetration both as a blessing and as a curse, like something that needs to be tamed and curbed.
The problem is we haven't seen anything big like this in age and it's frankly overdue. I think experts understand enough about how technology can and will be used to create a sensible reasonable framework that could be a level playing field that respects the rights of industry and consumers.
Anyways, I wish I could speak more about the specifics about what this would look like from my POV, but I'm actually more interested to hear from the audience. How would YOU go about creating some kind of international agreement that could bring about a single standard for technology? What areas would you include? What areas would you allow individual countries/territories to regulate? What would be the number one issue? How would non-signatories be treated?
The cancellation of the Epic Games developer account by Apple now on HN front page is another example. Apple has lost its marbles. You have a company creating gold from silica that has an another gold mine around the corner. Why the fear of playing somewhat nicely? Cannot imagine their moats crumbling by these comparatively tiny problems.