You do realize, if anything, the DMA itself is cope. The EU's consumer electronics industry has been lapped by the rest of the world, and now all they can do is nitpick connectors and firmly demand that Apple support something almost no users care about.
Again, if Apple shared your opinion then maybe they'd call Europe's bluff. Again, Apple is chronically incapable of doing this because it would mean being eaten alive by shareholders that make $DIS owners look rational. Leaving the European market would be the trigger-pull of Apple's suicide.
> and now all they can do is nitpick connectors
...you're still mad about a $4 gas station cable? Seriously?
> and firmly demand that Apple support something almost no users care about.
"Why is the United States wasting their time with these Rockefeller people? They're coping over things the unbridled success of Standard Oil, pushing legislation that none of their customers care about!" - imagine the free market with a bunch of yous at the helm.
> Again, if Apple shared your opinion then maybe they'd call Europe's bluff.
One can believe regulation is counterproductive while complying with it. Compliance isn’t evidence of success.
> you're still mad about a $4 gas station cable? Seriously?
USB-C is the last connector I’d cheap out on for my personal electronics, given its tendency to fry devices. In any case, the rationale for standardizing the connectors was that buying cables was an environmental and anti-consumer catastrophe, which is hilarious for a continent that imports wood pellets from across an ocean to heat homes. Suddenly me having to buy one is no biggie?
(I’m not mad, I’m perplexed.)
> imagine the free market with a bunch of yous at the helm
It’d be much better. I actually care about asking if regulation is productive and effective. You seem to be focused on whether it’s a sick own and think people who question efficacy are “coping”.
For example, I commented elsewhere in this thread that Apple’s requirement to only rent Macs for 24 hours at a time in VPS services is silly and shouldn’t be enforceable.
If I could facepalm any harder, my hand would pass through my skull and hit the wall behind me. Your definition of success is relative, and judging from every piece of evidence you have presented so far, it's also quite petty. Not the same definition of success the EU is using. So... you're welcome to disagree, but nobody is using your metric of success.
> Suddenly me having to buy one is no biggie?
Quite literally, yes.
> It’d be much better.
I'm going to tear my hair out. This is the reason nobody takes you seriously.
> I commented elsewhere in this thread that Apple’s requirement to only rent Macs for 24 hours at a time in VPS services is silly and shouldn’t be enforceable.
Congratu-fucking-lations. Next you're going to have some prophetic vision that their relationship with China is somehow harmful, or that the Butterfly Keyboard hurt your fingers. Maybe you are the expert market correspondent you claimed to be, shuckles.
> You seem to be focused on whether it’s a sick own
You know what? I am. Apple spent the last 10 years playing their own game of sick ownership, now it's only fair that they should be forced to choose between first-world market access and fair play. If you want to question the efficacy of user freedom, use actual examples and arguements. Here's the chart again if you need help: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qgQR5VUoGDU/UzV5nP4xKnI/AAAAAAAADo...
How do you explain Japan also mandating this? As I recall, South Korea, India, Australia, and several other nations have also been calling for Apple to open up iOS as well.
