Could Apple Leave Europe?

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by scaleout1 • 2 years ago

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pjmlp4• 2 years ago

For me they can happily leave if they feel like it.

We would get back to the 1980 - 2000's period, where Apple hardware on Europe was mostly seen on computer magazines, while we played with Atari, Amiga, Archimedes, PC, MSX, ZX Spectrum and C64.

Business opportunity for Sailfish, and others.

olliej3• 2 years ago

You mean the period of MS only? That’s your dream point?

pjmlp4• 2 years ago

You apparently have English reading compreehension problems, I made quite clear what systems were available.

sydbarrett742• 2 years ago

Increased competition? Less monoculture? Yes, please!

tmottabr• 2 years ago

less monoculture how??

today you have two competing phone OS, that is not a monoculture.

If Apple leave EU then there will be only Android.. It will be a monoculture then..

Also you do not increase competition by having less people competing.

znpy• 2 years ago

If Apple leave EU then there will be only Android.. It will be a monoculture then..

That would actually be great, because in that case the EU would have ground to impose Google to sell off the Android division (because it'd be a monopoly).

sydbarrett742• 2 years ago

If Google becomes a de facto monopolist, then the EU is more likely to restrict its market power further, up to and including divestiture.

TheLoafOfBread• 2 years ago

It could happen. But if Apple leaves Europe, there will be suddenly lot of developers, who will have no motivation anymore to release anything for Apple and all applications will be suddenly for Android only.

Do you want to use our product? Well buy some Android phone instead of your toy phone. Does not look good in a long term.

theGeatZhopa• 2 years ago

No they can't, because this is against the shareholder value. Everything must be decided for the shareholder and in favor of the shareholder.

If they leave, they'll bring big damage to the shareholder. Not only tim Cook can run very very very fast, then...

mike_hearn• 2 years ago

Leaving big markets has been done quite a few times. Most obviously when Google left the Chinese search market in 2010, something that conventional wisdom at the time said could never happen due to the sheer size of the market.

davibu• 2 years ago

Lies.. European market is the second biggest one, accounting for 25% the company's revenue in 2023.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/

Could Apple Leave Europe?

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