• @cyd
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    12 hours ago

    Google has behind it an incoming US government that puts US economic interests first, and relishes bullying its allies. The EU is weak, divided, and geostrategically boxed in. It will bend the knee.

      • @cybersandwich
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        -2611 hours ago

        I gotta say that seemed pretty performative considering apple was obviously already moving that way with usb-c on all their devices.

          • @cybersandwich
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            -810 hours ago

            :) I’m glad the EU did it. Having usb c for all of my devices is awesome.

            But they waited so long to do it. I think everything except the iPhone was already usb c (iirc) and given the supply chain lead times, the timing of the reg vs the release of the new usb c phone, I really think they had the usb-c phones in flight for a couple years.

            Maybe the looming threat of the reg made it happen. Maybe it made it happen faster. But it seemed like the direction they were headed.

            At the end of the day, I’m glad they regulate vs what the US does. Even if their regs aren’t perfect / late, they do something for their constituents.

            • @[email protected]
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              910 hours ago

              The only reason the regulation happened is because Apple ignored the “industry, agree on a standard or we’ll set one for you” memo: By the time the EU passed the act all other manufacturers had already shaped up.

              That is: For other companies, the looming threat sufficed. Apple needed to be forced.

      • @slaacaa
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        510 hours ago

        Have you ever looked at a map? America can just float anywhere

    • @[email protected]
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      37 hours ago

      Yeah… In fourth grade I was taught that there is nothing like an outer foe to create inner peace. I never imagined it to be the US to accomplish that, but here we are.

    • @[email protected]
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      1911 hours ago

      The EU is doing great. It can pay for loads of stuff with the endless fines American tech companies rack up

    • Justin
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      1811 hours ago

      The EU and its allies is bigger than Trump’s rogue oligarchy

    • @[email protected]
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      711 hours ago

      It’s hardly about US economic interest so much as the interests of a small in-crowd. See: tariffs.