Recently I saw an article saying, Japanese law forced Apple to open up browser restrictions on iOS.

But this got me thinking, why couldn’t Apple just tell them to fuck off by saying that iOS is meant to be that way cause we are the ones who designed it and the ones who own it. And if you want a change, go make your own products.

Don’t get me wrong, I hate big-tech controlling peoples lives, but aren’t these kind of laws; telling a maker to make the product in a specific way, eliminating creative freedom?

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I’ve the same question with EU. At a certain point they must realise that the reason they’re a tech desert is because of their red tape and failing 20th century top-down economic view. There’s a reason even their car manufacturing and sales are failing, one of the last remaining industries.

    Doing the same with tech from abroad will just ruin innovation there as well.

    Maybe it’s a “if we can’t have good things, you can neither” kind of thinking?

    • einkorn@feddit.org
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      16 days ago

      I am not 100% sure how to tackle your comment:

      Are you pro-monopolies or anti-regulations? Or maybe both?

      Have the communication giants (AOL, Comcast, …) taught you nothing?

      • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
        14·
        16 days ago

        None of the above?

        I’m pro progression, discovery, creativity and science. Things that aren’t happening in europe.

        Have the communication giants (AOL, Comcast, …) thought you nothing?

        They thought me things like semiconductor physics, hamming codes!

            • einkorn@feddit.org
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              16 days ago

              Well, for example maybe ask youself which continent produced the first commercially available COVID vaccines?

              Hint: Pfizer is a distributor, not a developer.

              Edit: Also talking about those fancy computer papers you mention: Do you happen to know where the world leading manufacturer of equipment for high end chip production is located?

                  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
                    1·
                    16 days ago

                    Spotify, one of the scandinavian countries I think.

                    Now I think we ran out. You know more?

      • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
        22·
        16 days ago

        How so? Just look at the important computer science papers last decade: most were made by researchers at US firms. Their car sales are declining, because asian cars are better for less cost.

        EU really is a tech desert, someone from malaysia to someone from brazil can see that, regardless of their politics.

          • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
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            15 days ago

            That’s not what this is about. More so the scientific inquiry, exploration of the natural world, “What was previously thought unreachable was made possible”.

            EU is frozen in the 20th century, filled with conservative people. Getting more irrelevant by the day, yet stuck in a fantasy of past relevance.

            This has consequences, as now foreign countries are dictating domestic policy. We are for example financially supporting both sides of a war on european soil. We are being told who’s and how much fuel to buy.

            And instead of recognizing own mistakes, people react with anger towards the foreign. A very unhelpfull reaction, as it changes nothing.