just reduce the services you provide Europeans, let the Europeans vote out these people

general1465 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Which will have unintended consequences, like falling behind competitors, who will use it against Apple as a leverage and slowly push it from European market, which is 26% of Apple's revenue.

Average European is like average American, they are not following these political and corporational dramas, but they can tell that i.e. Samsung has features, while Apple is stale.

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frollogaston 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How did they view GDPR over there in hindsight? All that really did was nag everyone about cookies forever after.

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jemmyw 12 hours ago | parent [-]

The cookie stuff was separate to the GDPR wasn't it? Pretty sure it came in before.

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frollogaston 11 hours ago | parent [-]

It was soon after. It's a requirement of GDPR to get permission for certain kinds of cookies, and seemingly every website either falls under non-exempt or can't afford to prove they're exempt.

	▲	kalleboo 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The original ePrivacy Directive that created the cookie banners is from 2003, and EU users have been seeing cookie banners since then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Directive#Cookies The GDPR is what really gave it enforcement teeth though and that's when it really exploded and made the banners more intrusive and adopted by non-EU-native websites that weren't based in but still did business inside the EU.