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UK Planning Huge Fines for Companies Like Apple That Do Not Meet New Rules
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Definitely, there’s never indication about what happens AFTER the fines are collected, how they are sent back to each of the “affected costumers that had to look for this cable instead of that one” or lost hair follicles because there’s only a single App Store (and only some of them, a single PlayStation store on Sony’s, or Nintendo eShop don’t get affected somehow).
This looks to me a like a way to tax: make rules (some reasonable, some bonkers), collect fines to finance the more making of rules to be able to collect more fines.
Just like parking tickets, rules accumulate, the end user is the most affected even if meaning good intentions. After first lockdowns when people started using their cars… hot pancakes the amount of ticketing that I have seen take place.
Example:
We definitely have better products with apple in complete control of their software and hardware. I feel safer with apple products because of this control. I hate when giver knows better and interferes with a great business practice that has proved safe for their customer. I don’t see apple bending on this one. Why penalize customers and companies. apple has an competitive edge because they’ve earned it.
Pass the price of the fine onto the EU consumers. EU needs to put more energy into actually building products than they do telling other countries how to build them. Hopefully this one step will get more countries to exit the EU.
Or raise prices in the UK to offset the risk of doing business there.
Posted to wrong post. Decided to just leave it. My bad but thank you for the heads up. 🤪
Oh ’they‘ are above being regulated, unlike the populace masses. Look across the pond at London Breed or Pelosi or Newsom who were caught disregarding the mandates they themselves advocated for.
disclaimer: politician’s names listed based solely on that they are prominently based from the Bay Area that iHQ is down the 270 from. Folks from both parties UK & US have flaunted public health policies, because the “elites” evidently think they live by another set of rules.
Because companies have to either
- break apart into genuinely separate national entities,
- divest themselves of all assets and activities within countries that have such laws (including offloading their copyrights, patents, and so on),
- ask a friendlier government to “restore democracy”,
- pay the fines, or
- obey the law.
Companies just have to limit themselves to nine crimes a year.
10% of Apple’s global turnover could pay for pretty much all the lawyers anyone could wish for, and with a sovereign currency and no moronic SGP-like limits they question is how confident they are they’ll ultimately win. Lack of resources is just a pretext for ignoring their mates’ crimes.
I think that’s referring to opaque sort functions and potential bias, which are much harder for the public to even detect, let alone avoid.
We also have the potential for better FUTURE products as long as we keep letting Apple shoot themselves in the foot with their restrictive App Store. As Android has shown, there are BILLIONS of folks that have no interest in what Apple’s selling and would potentially be open to a game-changing newcomer. Give iOS the abilities of Android and Apple might be falling over themselves selling iPhones into the EU and UK in record breaking numbers.
That’s a good one, too, but would likely have the same effect
Raise the price to make it match the fees, folks in the UK stops buying phones and shareholders say it’s no longer worth packing and shipping UK specific versions with sales so low.This is just yet another obvious attempt by the greedy corrupt Conservative Party to grab as much cash as they can to pay for the tax breaks of their elite chums such as Akshata Murthy (wife of the U.K Chancellor of the Exchequer).
This is horrid news and shows how out of touch the U.K government is, remember these are the same lot who sided with the grooming r * p e gangs of Rotherham and Rochdale and over 25 towns and counting.
Because some people need protecting from themselves and you forget that if you were to use the iPhone as you please and install dodgy apps etc that could then put others like myself at risk if IOS were truly open.
Just look at what a nightmare mess Android is and how Google have been trying and failing for years to fix the problem.
Not when corrupt politicians get a taste for other people/company's money in which case even Apple will run out of cash!
The point is that regulators claim they are saving us despite 99+% of us being happy with things as they are and are NOT in distress.
Newsflash....ALL politicians are paid for by big corporations....including the U.K and EU!
There are also billions of people who REGRET going to Android and the countless dodgy apps that ruin their lives.
One thing that those that want iOS wide open fail to understand about my position, as you mentioned, it potentially harms me. If apps I want/need decide to move to an alternate store, I’d be faced with with not using them or using them and being open to the spyware that they are sure to have.
The only way I see it not harming me is if Apple were to allow users to implement full featured firewalls like macOS, so that trackers, spyware, analytics and the sort could be blocked.
But that would never happen because one thing is for sure, governments want the systems open so they can be beneficiaries of the spyware.
Just use other apps then.™️
You'd still have that a choice, just as I have a choice to "just use Android then", don't I?
There are apps I want and can't get on iOS. Today.
There have been and are such apps in Apple's App Store today
This will only by resolved by robust sandboxing, not by Apple withdrawing developer certificates after the fact.
There are very stringent privacy controls and sandboxing in iOS today.
More than on macOS, so your comparison is off.
Reread what I wrote, not whatever false conclusion you came to regarding some type of comparison that was not made.
The statement is a fallacy.
Firewalls don't reliably block spyware or analytics.
As long as an app has internet connection (and many need an internet connection to work, think social networks, video streaming, food ordering or ride hailing apps), its developer can transmit personal data. And run analytics or trackers.
Sure, you may have to use your own server, and need to roll the analytics/tracking on it, rather than just quickly dropping third-party tracking/analytics software (by Google or someone else) that directly connects to third-parties. But that's really not rocket science. As opposed to blocking analytics and trackers with firewalls, which indeed is rather tricky and/or an uphill battle.
In order to "spy" on you, spyware needs access to other data on your phone (such as contacts, calendars, photos, location, etc.), i.e. to be allowed access out of its "sandbox". And that's the only somewhat reliable way to combat spyware: To prevent it from having access to sensitive data (or the internet) in the first place.
There's pretty fine-grained controls for that in iOS today.
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