Hopefully Apple is only the beginning

As an US citizen, I pretty much count on EU regulations to protect me since my own government is too rife with fascist agitators and oligarchs to respond to the needs of the people.

The EU Cyber Resilience Act will effectively make open-source software illegal, and that sure as hell isn't pro-consumer. Neither is all the spooky surveillance and crippled cryptography they keep trying to mandate.

Now if only they did the same antitrust they did with Microsoft back in the day but targeting Google.

Things like the new right to repair laws will hit everyone.

Most Android phone manufacturers have been sealing in their batteries as well, and Android is 2/3 of the European phone market.

How is it that billion dollar tech companies haven't infiltrated the EU leadership yet?

I’m hearing mixed things on how impacted Apple will be re:batteries, since they already sell replacement kits to the users. It sounds like they may just need to make them available to all member states? Not sure if anyone has actual insight beyond reading a headline.

What, other than profit, is stopping big companies like this from stopping support in the EU if most of their sales are in the US? Would the redevelopment be worth it?

It was close to never happen again, i guess

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/07/19/scott-morton-an-american-economist-withdraws-from-running-for-a-key-eu-post-after-controve

Don't forget that the EU is controlled by people who know NOTHING about technology. Case in point: the cookies.

Fuck the EU and forcing me to have a removable battery. It's fucking stupid. USB C was cool though.

For real fuck them the ass with a hot rod. I do not want your shitty shitty removable batteries.

That’s weird, bruh, I never felt like I was being anti-consumered by any apple shit. Foreign green bubbles are trying to claw apple backwards instead of moving themselves forward.