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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 20:19:33 JST Aral Balkan

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   • Niléane

   @nileane No one who doesn’t work at Apple works harder for Apple than that guy.

   • Niléane (nileane@nileane.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 20:19:35 JST Niléane

     The way John Gruber writes about the EU feels insulting at this point.

     I’m sensing it as the same kind of rhetoric that was used by Brexiters about 10 years ago — dumbing down the narrative to the point of disregarding some of the most important aspects that have lead to the DMA.

     His way of constantly implying that Apple’s anticompetitive practices can be justified because they make for better experiences is often just based on the false assumption that people are dumber than they really are.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Oliver Reichenstein (reichenstein@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 17:42:19 JST Oliver Reichenstein

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     • Niléane

     @nileane Americans usually look at EU laws from their by-the-letter, precedence based common law, not expecting the in-spirit approach of non-Anglo-Saxon civil law. Even Apple's response was typically American—trying to find sophist gaps in the wording, complying in a "clever" way ("Look, I do just what you said! Happy now?"). While I don't expect American tech bloggers to understand European law or how they pedal populist anti EU propaganda, I expected more from Apple's lawyers.