European Commission
App Store, Apple Arcade, Music, iTunes Store, Books and Podcasts.
Following a coordinated investigation at the European level, we are calling on Apple to stop geo-blocking practices on Apple Media Services.
Their limitations unlawfully discriminate against European consumers based on their residence, including online access, payment methods and downloading.
Apple has one month to reply to the CPC Network’s findings and propose commitments on addressing them.
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@humanhorseshoes @EUCommission Ask that to all the people who no longer have to buy bullshit proprietary cables, and now can use what everyone else uses, USB-C; which means catering to charging is cheaper and easier
Human after all
@EUCommission being policed by the EU is like being attacked by a dead sheep
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@humanhorseshoes @EUCommission Can you elaborate? You seem to understand the subject in-depth, and I would appreciate the clarification
Human after all
@ekis @EUCommission USB-C cables are not all the same and the EU focused on and got transfixed on the connector
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@humanhorseshoes @MartinBe @MartinaNeumayer @EUCommission These complaints seem silly, but far more importantly, not very cogent. Its a bit too scattered, if you want to focus on just what you meant by focusing on connector, maybe we can get somewhere.
Just silly, b/c I grew up in the US. Have had people in my family beaten to near death by police, while handcuffed AND administrative state so gutted regulating USB-C to be universal would be a massive win, our rivers will soon be on fire again
Martina Neumayer
@humanhorseshoes @ekis @EUCommission Yes exactly that. In the simple words: there way to many variations of this standard which plenty of times lead people to bunch of confusions and by that to spending tons of money on finding the right one cable/charger/other devices and so on. I have in the box in my workshop over 30 different types of usb-c cables lying down there. And there are many more out there manufactured. It's an absolute total nightmare! Even for people who well knows electronics.
Martin Be
@MartinaNeumayer @humanhorseshoes @ekis @EUCommission Well written, Sweetie! EU did something but as usual they didn't researched the topic correctly, as they should do. And at the end we all have even worse mess actually, than we had before. Typical EU crap! They are sitting there in Brüssel, inventing plenty of stupid things and later only people are suffering from their emptyheadness. And we all are paying for trash like that and for their monthly salaries! Imagine that!
Human after all
@MartinBe @MartinaNeumayer @ekis @EUCommission an endless river of shit and if you have a problem nobody will help you and you waste 5-10 years of your life trying to get things like freedom of movement or your rights enforced.
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@ekis @EUCommission some charge, some do data, some do both and some do both at different speeds, some do audio, some do video. My problem with the EU is the arbitrary enforcement of EU law and how it can be simply discarded at will by bad actors
Martin Be
@ekis @humanhorseshoes @MartinaNeumayer @EUCommission Yes, that's very sad. But what else can be written here? This reality you have there actually is just a simple mirror of the (almost) entire society. For all this situation you can only blame idiots from your own government and the bunch of morons who choosed them. No one else. Sorry for being direct, but it is, as it is. Stupid causes lead always to equally if not more stupid results. It's an simple logic. Nothing more than that.
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@MartinBe @humanhorseshoes @MartinaNeumayer @EUCommission That is a wildly naive opinion
First, lets deal with an ideology that's natural conclusion is racist nationalism: we are all born randomly where we are, no one is worth more or less because they happened to be born into a better or worse society
You are under the illusion people chose this? We live in a plutocracy in the US, all important issues are not up for a vote, we get to vote on the crumbs of a few social issues
Martin Be
@ekis @humanhorseshoes @MartinaNeumayer @EUCommission Isn't naive. Because people at the gov are only representative of the people from the society. They are (should be) working for the average people, not for themselves. And look for yourself what your own gov is doing.
Who normal would choose some racist as the president of the nation? Tell me please who? No one who is sane in own head.
Besides look at the history of your country where you can find plenty examples how poorly this country works
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@MartinBe @humanhorseshoes @MartinaNeumayer @EUCommission You don't know what the definition of plutocracy is?
Also your statement would imply every government is a perfect reflection of their people, even functioning pluralistic democracies regularly fail to do that
Additionally, there is an inherent contradiction within capitalism and democracy, since once says you vote with your dollar, and the other says every vote is equal
Our votes are not even equal, not pretense of that
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@MartinBe @humanhorseshoes @MartinaNeumayer @EUCommission Additionally not only is your worldview naive but your understanding of how bad the US is, is frankly childish
Our president is racist? The US is systemically racist, in more ways than I care to iterate, racism so deep that we never outlawed slavery, for prisoners. And most of our prisoners? Mostly people of color, way out of proportion to population. Some prions are even on the grounds of old plantations, where the wardens live
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@MartinBe @humanhorseshoes @MartinaNeumayer @EUCommission But why don't you tell me how most Europeans feel about Romani and other travelers?
That is you personally, not even your leadership. Its totally accepted racism by individuals making the decision to be racist.
And your ideology inevitable conclusion is racism, but not actually that surprising, given how normalized white supremacy is in both the US and EU
You can tell me your individual country, or you could just learn on your own
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