• macniel@feddit.org
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    13 days ago

    How about letting the users decide what to sideload? What the hell?

    I hope the EU is ready to also sue Google.

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      13 days ago

      The EU already forced sideloading to be officially supported on iPhones thanks to the Digital Markets Act, and that law applies to Google as well.

      The US will likely apply pressure, just like they are trying to force their death machines to be legalized on European roads. Apple already tried to pressure the union and failed, but the political climate has changed a bit since then, and while EU bureaucrats can be fierce, European leadership tends to be weak as fuck.

      But yeah, chances are that this change won’t apply to the EU. :)

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        13 days ago

        European leadership tends to be weak as fuck.

        which is utterly disheartening.

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          12 days ago

          Google is clearly trying to find a loophole here. Their loophole clearly sucks.

          In all likelihood it’ll end up in front of the Court of Justice of the European Union. And in all likelihood Google will lose again.

          The Court of Justice generally seems unimpressed by American lobbyists, so the strategy of finding a dumb loophole is probably doomed to fail.

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      13 days ago

      The EU is currently deepthroating Trump so hard that it’s completely out of breath and all our clothes are ruined.

      With how volatile Trump is this could change literally anyday, but with the current political equilibrium all google would have to do is gift trump a shiny golden thing so he makes a threatening remark about gas exports and the EU would go “uwu yes master right away master, do you want to fuck my gaping asshole while you’re at it?”.