[Spivak]

Ahh yes, the "all lightbulbs regardless of their manufacture are required to have at least <this> energy efficiency" style regulation where <this> is set "neutrally" at the efficiency of LED bulbs.

Read article 3 paragraphs 1 and 2 and tell me this wasn't written to target like five US tech companies in total.

[yoavm]

I have read it. I defines how much money the company needs to be making the EU and how many users they need to have. Sure, it's targeting big companies.

The LED example you gave is actually a great one: I don't think the regulator cares if you're using LED or not. The intention is to reduce the usage of lightbulbs that aren't as energy efficient as modern technology allows them to be. If you can make a incandescent lightbulb that is as efficient, good for you. No one has targeted incandescent light.

Same here. Yes, companies this size are almost only American (and Chinese). That doesn't mean that American companies were the target.

[int_19h]

US, with its severe underregulation of oligopolies, allows companies to grow that big. Why do you then complain that they are the ones targeted by laws in countries which are sane enough to understand the need to regulate such things?

Apple is welcome to vacate the EU if it finds it all too onerous.