> Apple would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by mentioning at least the generalities of _why_

Really? You can't imagine any reasons Apple wouldn't want to have a public PR battle about its disagreements with its primary regulator in the market? Have you ever worked with the government?

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Y-bar 5 days ago | parent [-]

Apple regularly have PR battles with governments, this week they openly sponsored a study on the App Store in Brazil to defend their ability to be the only store on iOS. Recently they fought UK publicly regarding encryption. And they have fought FBI publicly with press releases and interviews regarding similar things. Apple executives have also publicly spoken about their disagreements with DMA in 2024 and 2025.

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shuckles 5 days ago | parent [-]

Wow seems like they really pick these battles to only be the most important issues.

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Y-bar 4 days ago | parent [-]

Not necessarily. Just now for example Apple is facing a regulatory problem with the eSIM, so they mention that they have an actual regulatory issue. [1]

But for this translation feature they have not even mentioned any regulatory issues, so we should from conclude, from previous and current behaviour, that Apple is delaying for something else. Probably engineering or political reasons.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/12/apple-delays-iphone-air...

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shuckles 4 days ago | parent [-]

Delayed approval and disagreements about the fundamental nature of what's allowed are two totally different things. Not sure why this example is relevant at all.

	▲	Y-bar 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		> disagreements about the fundamental nature of what's allowed You have no source for this claim.