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?
None of the above?
I’m pro progression, discovery, creativity and science. Things that aren’t happening in europe.
They thought me things like semiconductor physics, hamming codes!
Yeaaaaaaah, maybe take it a little easier on the kool-aid in the future.
In what way?
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?
I know that one! BioNTech, Germany, EU.
Ask me another one!
Ok, how about that audio streaming service everyone uses nowadays?
Spotify, one of the scandinavian countries I think.
Now I think we ran out. You know more?
Oh, we can keep going, alright.
I guess you didn’t see the edit to my earlier comment: Monopolist on high-end semiconductor manufacturing equipment? Comes from a place that calls itself the “Low Lands”.
Keep going then?
Good question, but rather the reverse: I’d prefer the EU participated more, so there’d be more competing ideas in technology and science!
Who?