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Google has behind it an incoming US government that puts US economic interests first, and relishes bullying its allies. The EU is weak, divided, and geostrategically boxed in. It will bend the knee.
Hows apple lightning cable doing?
I gotta say that seemed pretty performative considering apple was obviously already moving that way with usb-c on all their devices.
Apple cried and moaned about that and the battery repair regulation that was placed. They may have been planning to eventually switch but it definitly wasn't a soon endeavor until forced by the regulation.
They even posted multiple excuses of why they didn't agree with the decision because they felt the problem that the EU was trying to fix had been resolved since newer charging blocks had USB-C as the input so users could just swap the cable and use the same brick.
Being said, with big tech companies I think regulation is the only way, which means sadly will likely never happen in the US
Not often I actually lol at a comment. Well done
:) I’m glad the EU did it. Having usb c for all of my devices is awesome.
But they waited so long to do it. I think everything except the iPhone was already usb c (iirc) and given the supply chain lead times, the timing of the reg vs the release of the new usb c phone, I really think they had the usb-c phones in flight for a couple years.
Maybe the looming threat of the reg made it happen. Maybe it made it happen faster. But it seemed like the direction they were headed.
At the end of the day, I’m glad they regulate vs what the US does. Even if their regs aren’t perfect / late, they do something for their constituents.
The only reason the regulation happened is because Apple ignored the "industry, agree on a standard or we'll set one for you" memo: By the time the EU passed the act all other manufacturers had already shaped up.
That is: For other companies, the looming threat sufficed. Apple needed to be forced.
lol ok
Have you ever looked at a map? America can just float anywhere
The EU is doing great. It can pay for loads of stuff with the endless fines American tech companies rack up
The EU and its allies is bigger than Trump's rogue oligarchy
It’s hardly about US economic interest so much as the interests of a small in-crowd. See: tariffs.
Yeah... In fourth grade I was taught that there is nothing like an outer foe to create inner peace. I never imagined it to be the US to accomplish that, but here we are.
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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/01/08/meta-studying-eu-impact-of-end-to-fact-checking-says-french-minister_6736836_143.html