Source: https://x.com/MarvinTBaumann/status/1993633606506319924?s=20

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  2. A legend says the EU flips a coin every time they pass a law on consumer rights. Heads they protect you, tails they fuck you over, unlubed.

  7. Thank you France and Germany. For giving us Google AirDrop, the Digital Services Act, and banning vegetarian meat, all while allowing the US to freely make 28-point plans with Putin about how Europe
    should be divided, we’re unable to defend our own territory, we haven’t been able to build a single European Tech giant, and every European startup of any significance departs for Delaware as soon as they get the opportunity.

    Excellent leadership, it’s a matter of priorities.

  8. Google implemented Apple’s proprietary protocol, not any open alternative. I love the EU as much as the next guy but they played no role in this.

  9. It’s kinda wild that a few protocols been standarized was all it took for Google to break into the walled garden. Props to Google for being the first still. Guess we’ll see it for other androids come the next major Android OS update.

  11. usb-c standard for charging, i love it

    ![gif](giphy|88hQmqhcQ7Gmj2cXX3)

  12. Good for Android users.

    That said, and as an unpopular opinion, this is a short term win for a long term lose.

    The thing is that companies innovate for profit. Sad as it sounds, this is the world we live in.
    Everybody hated Apple for removing the headphone jack (myself included). Then, other companies started copying the strategy with USB-C, and now every new pair of headphones is either USB-C or wireless. Literally everybody won from something that Apple used for their own profit. And do you know what the next great connector will be? Exactly, none, because by enforcing a policy, we killed innovation. But hey, EU wins because bad Apple now complies with regulation huh?

    Now the same with Airdrop. I really don’t give a damn about it, but I wonder, now what incentive do companies have to develop their own, better technologies? That they will be forced to give it away?

    And I know that this is bad karma, because hating Apple and private companies is cool and edgy, but deep inside we all know that the world works like this.
    Novo Nordisk almost threw the towel with the semaglutide because it didn’t last enough in the body, but some fucker was greedy enough to imagine how much money they would make and threw in a couple more years in development and a couple extra hundred million euros. And yeah, it wasn’t for the sake of making this a better world, but the thing is that millions of people benefit from that. I used pharma (and a European company, for instance) because it is the sector that best shows this paradox (greater good from individual greed), but the thing is that it is universal.

    End of Eurorant.

  15. Remember folks, stiff upper lip. Do not let the overwhelming sense of superiority show too much

    But r/USvsEU would be better place

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