Now the average american can look up to something and demand it from the policy makers. God bless Europe.
The Brussels effect implies that for now, the EU is winning.
Presumably Apple has some internal calculation of how much $$$$ they would lose by globally standardizing the "European iPhone." But we're unlikely to see that number.
Incidentally, the CrowdStrike snafu had its roots in European regulations.
They now claim that if that hadn't happened they would have banned their competitors from using kernel modules and thus crowdstrike couldn't have fucked up kernel code. What they don't mention is that they could have made it possible to implement such software without kernel modules, like other platforms do, and banned everyone (including their own product) from kernel space, leading to both "no security software in kernel" (not even Microsofts) and "Microsofts security products do not get a special unfair exception", but of course there is a crowd loving that argument as broken as it is.
That is some truly twisted logic. Let's blame Microsoft-specific disasters on antitrust regulation. It is not even worthy of being called logic. It is lowbrow spin.
Why not ditch Windows and keep the antitrust regulations.
Oops, we can't because meaningful competition does not exist.
Not having the possibility of a 3rd party app store means that you can never have an app store in the EU, where the 30% stays in the EU.
I also don't believe that the EU is doing a great job, the cookie law didn't accomplish anything other than force companies to pay monthly for a cookie banner service and waste millions. GDPR failed, it just created legal black holes and it's now fine to transfer data to the US, rendering the whole thing ineffective.
I'm an EU citizen and I'm not sure if the EU would have been so keen on USB-C if Apple would have been a company in the EU. This talk about saving the environment fades away at the first sign of economical inconvenience.
I'm fine knowing in advance how scummy a website is even before I use it by their dark patterns on cookie warnings and thousands of "legitimate interest" partners.
Edit: People should stop whining about the cookie warnings and start being concerned that selling PII is such a common (and not even looked down upon) practice. It's disgusting.
It is also very ironic that you have to record the consents in your database by generating a unique id for the visitors.
Having technology illiterate people making laws about tech also doesn't help.
Brave did way more for my privacy than the EU ever could.
Good luck having Brave protect your PII.