> I do have good news for fans of coercive government regulation. Apple’s hand was effectively forced. But by China, not the EU.
I am a fan of coercive government regulation, and this is good news.
China has made several smart regulations in this area, and when the EU, China and others align it blunts the kind of insanity that lets Americans type sentences like "coercive government regulation" with zero irony.
Just watched a video about right-to-repair and the Indian representative said global supply chains require the whole world to be on the same page, which can be tricky, but since the EU had set a deadline, they set an "EU plus 6 months" deadline to harmonise.
Next up, Gruber attempts to spin how Apple's self-admitted deliberate sabotage of PWAs is really just for our benefit.
This was after he spun the LastPass debacle as no big deal. One of his comments, get this, was:
> Instead, the scam LassPass app tries to steer you to creating a “pro” account subscription for $2/month, $10/year, or a $50 lifetime purchase. Those are actually low prices for a scam app — a lot of scammy apps try to charge like $10/week.
His conclusion is somewhat odd, suggesting China writes effective legislation and that is their leverage, as opposed to the real reason which is the size of the market and their authoritarian wont. Which he also alludes to, confusingly.
A cryptic and vengeful fist-shake at the EU Commission, which surely has lower-hanging-fruit to take aim at.
The EU Commission is a shitshow, but they occasionally do a few things to improve their popularity and these things are mostly fine. I don't criticize them for that.
It is, and they do, and I also sympathize having travelled from Romania to Scotland and seen first-hand the differences that Europe has to somehow reconcile, it's a wonder they pass anything at all, even while I would like many of the people running things to be beaten on the soles of their feet repeatedly.
Tension between governing bodies and corporations is normal, signifies health and there's not enough of it.
The main problem of the commission is IMO that they aren't directly voted for and, well, not sure if I should call it corruption, but it does seem like the Commission is too monied-interests-friendly.
Their "friends" are mostly European, so they sometimes do something for EU citizens against the interests of foreign industries.
I'm less sure that voting for them would make any difference, given the way elected politicians behave, but the levels of corruption seem to belie the bureaucracy, designed to prevent corruption.
I feel that they're too keen on using Europe as some kind of club that encourages countries to soften in order to join - which I like - and less keen on fighting for the citizens, although this might be down to a disconnect and associated cluelessness about how things work.
This whole anti-encryption crusade has a Mr Bean-like naive bumbling line of attack, unlike the parallel UK approach which is decidedly supervillain-like.
I am a fan of coercive government regulation, and this is good news.
China has made several smart regulations in this area, and when the EU, China and others align it blunts the kind of insanity that lets Americans type sentences like "coercive government regulation" with zero irony.
Just watched a video about right-to-repair and the Indian representative said global supply chains require the whole world to be on the same page, which can be tricky, but since the EU had set a deadline, they set an "EU plus 6 months" deadline to harmonise.