[alt227]

> The EU regulations will require them to do insane amounts of custom work building a public API

Apple are the biggest company in the world. If they wanted they could hire 1000 developers to throw at this, and it wouldnt even dent a single percent of their profit.

Apple could very easily do this if they wanted to, heck they could do absolutely anything they want with their money and clout, but they dont.

[aikinai]

You can’t do anything you want just by adding developers. If it were that easy, the entire software industry would look completely different. And that’s not even accounting for the inevitable system-wide repercussions of the work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

[alt227]

Im aware of the man month, and Im aware that you cant just throw any deverlopers at any coding problem.

However I believe Apple easily has the money, developers, and ability to do this if they wanted. Look at all the other amazing things they do, anyone who argues this is hard for them is delusional IMO.

[sashank_1509]

There’s a difference between working to build an amazing product that wows people, and working to fulfill mind numbing regulations created by people who couldn’t run a coffee shop. One is soul enriching, another is soul crushing. If Apple wants to torture its developers into doing soul numbing, slow moving work, I guess they can but the default response would be to not do that and give their developers more meaningful tasks that leaves them and Apple happy.

[slashdave]

Sure, but why not just cut out the middlemen? Just install a EU representative in each Apple office, and they can watch over all the developers and dictate features.