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I can totally understand why Apple is doing this. And I hate it. Mostly because the regulations are not technical enough to get followed within soft- and hardware. The EU is just preventing any (most, maybe just a few, but „any“ from my perspective) new (consumer) technology now.

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I’d rather have to wait a while for shiny new feature, than dive head first into the unknown.

We made that mistake with social media, not taking it seriously enough. I can wait a hot minute for my iPhone to summarise paragraphs whilst we try and avoid rampant, democracy breaking technology 2.0.

> I’d rather have to wait a while for shiny new feature, than dive head first into the unknown.

Is there a possible world where that is your choice and that vision is not imposed on me ? I fully respect your point of view and strongly believe you should have that option at your disposal.

But I also feel like having an AI model running on my (private) device should be an option available to me if I want to.

You might never get it. Essentially Apple is saying they will need to negotiate with the EU to confirm they can add functionality without being found liable later on. That negotiation could end up in an impasse.

The only 'democracy breaking' I see with social media is all of the incumbents not wanting to deal with opposition and tossing around preposterous rhetoric like it was water in the ocean.

Yeah it’s great our EU bureaucrats are protecting us from evil innovations /s

And also this: https://sdw.space/europe-wants-to-end-encryption/

Tech monopolies are preventing new technology

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