You forget that these companies already operate in China which is a massive pain in the backside for all involved.
The only reason why a company might threaten to pull out is if they wanted to stop other countries getting similar ideas.
Maybe Apple should focus back on making money through innovation instead of coasting on rent seeking.
If they’re so good at dissuading gate keepers, then why is LVMH everywhere and so dominant in luxury goods? Why is it that every single glasses shop in every mall is owned by Luxottica no matter the brand.
The truth is that EU is not good at promoting competition. They’re good at preventing innovation. They’re good at protectionist policies.
How many more cookie prompts do people have to click because of idiotic EU laws?
Like Arm? Or raspberry pi? (Both existed pre-exit)
> software,
Too many companies to list.
> and AI?
Like Mistral?
> How many more cookie prompts do people have to click because of idiotic EU laws?
It's up to the companies. Every time you see a banner it means the company values selling your information more than pissing you off. We could have no banners right now.
My previous company hired a lawyer from EU for sorting out GDPR, and even according to him the law didn't prevented all things which hurts privacy like a normal person will assume.
Well they do collect user data using third party services. A bit disappointing, but banners seem to be necessary in this case.
> Cookie prompts is the best example of bad faith compliance
If cookie prompts are used by both by the official EU and GDPR sites then that was clearly the intent of the law.
Anyone can make an app like WeChat with mini programs inside. No one has exceeded because people in the west simply don’t want that ui.