Wow, this put a huge smile on my face. Can't wait to vote in favor of similar legislation here in the States.
> Zooming out, the bigger picture here is that the EU is turning into a micro-manager by regulating an increasingly large number of things, in an increasingly unreasonable manner:
Ah, the "nanny state" argument, even signed off with ye olde profitability threat. This is a pretty common accusation among solipsistic sycophants with a shattered worldview.
> The Nvidia / CUDA case in France as mentioned above – this is essentially telling Nvidia “hey, you guys did some crazy good innovation with the CUDA programming language, but you should open it up for everybody and make no money off it!”.
France has been trying to dig up evidence against Nvidia for a year at this point, and they haven't been able to draft a conclusive case against them. It's DOA - everyone knows this is going nowhere because the entire industry had several opportunities to sponsor a free competitor to CUDA, and refused. It would be funny to see them go through with it though, and watch Apple subsequently leave the market with their tail between their legs.
> Meta’s “Pay or Consent” case where the EU says “letting users choose between ads or a subscription is not good. make it free for everyone, without ads!”, essentially telling Meta to not make any money at all.
Meta's problem is that they aren't offering an advertising solution that isn't literally equivalent to spyware. It takes a 5 second Google search to prove that Meta has no excuse for this and is basically attempting Apple-tier empire politics to see what they can get away with. There is no question of who is in the wrong, here.
> The Apple App Store case where the EU is telling Apple “you shouldn’t be running a closed-off app ecosystem and make tons of money off it. instead, open it up for everyone and make no money!” (see a common theme here?).
Apple is so undeniably, professedly corrupt that I don't even have to justify the EU in litigating them out of existence. Apple can make money... selling fucking smartphones.
> Zooming out, the bigger picture here is that the EU is turning into a micro-manager by regulating an increasingly large number of things, in an increasingly unreasonable manner:
Ah, the "nanny state" argument, even signed off with ye olde profitability threat. This is a pretty common accusation among solipsistic sycophants with a shattered worldview.
> The Nvidia / CUDA case in France as mentioned above – this is essentially telling Nvidia “hey, you guys did some crazy good innovation with the CUDA programming language, but you should open it up for everybody and make no money off it!”.
France has been trying to dig up evidence against Nvidia for a year at this point, and they haven't been able to draft a conclusive case against them. It's DOA - everyone knows this is going nowhere because the entire industry had several opportunities to sponsor a free competitor to CUDA, and refused. It would be funny to see them go through with it though, and watch Apple subsequently leave the market with their tail between their legs.
> Meta’s “Pay or Consent” case where the EU says “letting users choose between ads or a subscription is not good. make it free for everyone, without ads!”, essentially telling Meta to not make any money at all.
Meta's problem is that they aren't offering an advertising solution that isn't literally equivalent to spyware. It takes a 5 second Google search to prove that Meta has no excuse for this and is basically attempting Apple-tier empire politics to see what they can get away with. There is no question of who is in the wrong, here.
> The Apple App Store case where the EU is telling Apple “you shouldn’t be running a closed-off app ecosystem and make tons of money off it. instead, open it up for everyone and make no money!” (see a common theme here?).
Apple is so undeniably, professedly corrupt that I don't even have to justify the EU in litigating them out of existence. Apple can make money... selling fucking smartphones.