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?
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.
Not everyone subscribes to “numbers go up lol” as the only indicator of success.
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.