Europeans using Apple, Google and other major tech platforms woke to a new reality Thursday as a landmark law imposed tough new competition rules on the companies — changing European Union citizens’ experience with phones, apps, browsers and more.

The new EU regulations force sweeping changes on some of the world’s most widely used tech products, including Apple’s app store, Google search and messaging platforms, including Meta’s WhatsApp. And they mark a turning point in a global effort by regulators to bring tech giants to heel after years of allegations that the companies harmed competition and left consumers worse off.

  • @Harbinger01173430
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    19 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be better to go back in time and erase all the apple founders and developers?

    • @[email protected]
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      29 months ago

      Would PDP-11 become dominant in personal computing then, I wonder?

      In USSR there were personal computers based on this architecture (there were Apple II clones too).

      I’m far too young, but the PDP-11 ISA seems very nice.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      That would probably result in non-modern smartphone like devices.
      I like my magic rectangle.

      • @Harbinger01173430
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        19 months ago

        Cursed device. We should be using rotating phones and flip phones.