I'm in favor of business taking risks. And providing some funding and or tax breaks in order to take those risks.
Businesses should absolutely not be granted a tax break. They can go and get a loan or investment as everyone else.
Are we not getting innovation these days? Is it not fast enough, quality enough, life changing enough? I'm failing to see what we are not getting because of the limitations of the AppStore or lack of direct access to NFC on one brand of phone?
That’s the question. We don’t know what we lose.
The NFC chips is accessible, apple just prevent apps on the store from using it.
Then it must amaze you we have macOS native based games at all. Who are these developers making apps for us?
And it’s a barren wasteland for a reason. Ether games won’t be made at all or they are ported through some wine program. Very few games are natively run
Microsoft was worth more and their mobile platform failed. Plus they existed before Apple in that space.
It's not just about resources.
No but with resources you can afford to throw away a few billions on a high risk high reward gamble.
If the EU wants more development/innovation and more open standards. FUND IT.
This isn’t a communist state, that’s completely in the private markets hands to solve. EU only referees the market.
If enough folks are fed up with the lack of options and control over the devices they purchase. You would already have the demand for something "else" or "new" within the EU market.
And they would do what? The barrier to entry to the OS market is so great that Eau have opted to regulate the market they occupy to encourage invocation between developers. Not OS/phone manufacturers.
They should tax the large dominate companies. Use that to fund an innovation grant to those developers that are not large (by whatever euro amount they wish to define that).
All companies are already taxed at a flat rate. Big or small. And it’s not the states business to fund developers. EU regulates the market to be fair, they don’t have the job to save companies or help failing ones.
USA might have the mentality to save companies that fails, EU have the mentality to let them fail. Bankruptcy is often the endgame.
And lend it to those companies so they can staff and get the resources they need at either low cost, long term loans or free grants for freelancers. Invite the programers and entrepreneurs of the world to come to Europe and code. Work for a start up, or an already established developer shop and create the next big thing. Right here in the EU.
Again, this isn’t a communist utopia, the government isn’t here to save you, it’s the markets job to do these things. Or go to a bank/investors