{"id":86407,"date":"2025-09-26T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/86407\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:44:11","slug":"adrian-weckler-the-wow-iphone-features-that-we-cant-use-as-theyre-tangled-up-in-eu-red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/86407\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Weckler: The \u2018wow\u2019 iPhone features that we can\u2019t use as they\u2019re tangled up in EU red tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nEuropean laws have helped civilise the online landscape, but now we can only look on in envy at some new features launched by Apple that are not available to users here\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Regulation: Apple chief Tim Cook launching the iPhone 17 earlier this month. Many new software features launched by the US firm won\u2019t be available to EU users. Photo: Name Justin Sullivan\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tyImages_2234532848.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Regulation: Apple chief Tim Cook launching the iPhone 17 earlier this month. Many new software features launched by the US firm won\u2019t be available to EU users. Photo: Name Justin Sullivan\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">We said we wanted Big Tech to be regulated. But is it worth losing out on features and services?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Maybe, maybe not. But there\u2019s now a gap opening between us and places like Britain and the US in mainstream services we can get from our tech because of new EU regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European laws have helped civilise the online landscape, but now we can only look on in envy at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[15807,15808,18,4893,19,17,279,2519,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-86407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-apple-company","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-mobile","15":"tag-review-magazine","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}