Mr: Apple Intelligence Features Not Coming to EU at Launch Due to DMA

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/21/apple-intelligence-europe-delay/

by razodactyl • 2 years ago

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stavros3• 2 years ago

Yes, "due to DMA". What's so hard about putting these APIs behind a permission screen, same as every other privacy-sensitive API?

simon_kun• 2 years ago

possibly: request to be forgotten triggering model retraining if user data has been used to train it.

dma means permissions can be revoked iirc

stavros3• 2 years ago

The solution there seems trivial: Don't train on EU users' data. Then you won't need to revoke anything, and you get exactly as much data as if you don't launch at all.

pjmlp• 2 years ago

Yeah, Apple is trying to play hard, not to break their little piggy bank.

I couldn't care less about Apple Inteligence not coming to EU.

JumpCrisscross• 2 years ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40751339

dvfjsdhgfv2• 2 years ago

This means even Apple understands that these are not killer features that are actually important and drive product adoption.

stavros3• 2 years ago

Or they think they are killer features, and that EU citizens will complain that the "bad EU" isn't letting "good guy Apple" give us the features we want.

It's too bad that the thing Apple cares most about is retaining their monopoly position over the iOS ecosystem. Leveling the playing field would be great for consumers, I really hope the EU can achieve it.

dvfjsdhgfv2• 2 years ago

It's too bad that the thing Apple cares most about is retaining their monopoly position over the iOS ecosystem.

It's been always this way, wasn't it?

Back to the point: most people are clueless and just use what's on their phone. Unless Apple organizes a huge campaigns with outdoor banners and ads on TV and social media blaming the EU and asking people to intervene, very few people will even notice. I know this because my colleague works in a phone repair shop and people would regularly come with a Huawei phone saying something is wrong because they cannot install an app used by their friends. What's obvious to us is completely irrelevant for most other people.

aeurielesn• 2 years ago

Apple needs to stop playing this silly game that American companies love to play with regulators. As if Apple didn't bow down to CPC but only doing malicious complaince to EU.

librasteve• 2 years ago

thank god for brexit

Mr: Apple Intelligence Features Not Coming to EU at Launch Due to DMA

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