mannycalavera

What's the principle here? That manufactures aren't allowed to tailor the user experience of their products? That doesn't sound like good legislation. The equivalent would be if I wanted to bring my steering wheel from Toyota to my Audi because it promotes competition.

The regulations will encourage competition by allowing alternative payment systems, benefiting startups and consumers.

Car manufacturers must be compelled by the EU to provide pluggable and safe steering columns in cars to benefitting startups and consumers.

Obviously such a thing wouldn't happen because it wouldn't benefit EU car manufacturers. But let's not talk about that, eh?

Let consumers vote with their feet. Let them choose alternatives that work for them. If there aren't decent alternatives, build them. Why go heavy handed on legislation thinly veiled to extort money out of companies? Seriously why not build a competing payment system for the EU? The APIs are available and there's tonnes of talented engineers in the EU. Start there. Build something better.

I don't really understand how this is a material change from what AOSP gives you right now? Can anyone explain?

For example: AOSP has been available to EU start-ups for over a decade for free and open source but none have built alternative payment systems or email or maps or advertising services on top of it in a cohesive way before. What is this law going to allow them to do that they couldn't before? 🤔