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by jonhohle 2 days ago
These are relatively recent and may have come into force after development began, definitely after Siri development an initial integration into personal data.

I suppose if you think these rules are reasonable, you’d be happy to not have this functionality. The rest of the world will be happy to not allow third parties access to our data.

As a small developer, the cost to support something like this would be so overwhelming I wouldn’t consider supporting the EU officially.
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miken123 2 days ago
> As a small developer, the cost to support something like this would be so overwhelming I wouldn’t consider supporting the EU officially.

As a small developer, you wouldn't fall under the DMA.

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ragazzina 2 days ago
> These are relatively recent and may have come into force after development began,

If it were the case, Apple would just say it (with receipts).

> I suppose if you think these rules are reasonable, you’d be happy to not have this functionality.

As a European Apple user I am absolutely OK with not having these functionalities, which I am 100% sure would not even work as advertised given the company track record.

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rsynnott 2 days ago
> These are relatively recent and may have come into force after development began, definitely after Siri development an initial integration into personal data.

The DMA was substantially finalised by 2020, and came into force in 2023. Apple's AI thing was developed with the full knowledge that it existed. The issue isn't personal data here (that'd be the GDPR, and maybe to some extent the AI Act). The DMA is about _competition_. The EU's issue here is that Apple is giving its own AI thing a level of access unavailable to other vendors' AI things, I'd assume.

> As a small developer

You are not covered by the DMA. You'd need an EEA turnover of 7.5bn and/or a market cap of 75bn, for a start. And you'd also need to be a _platform_. The DMA only really applies to a few companies.

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krzyk 2 days ago
> As a small developer, the cost to support something like this would be so overwhelming I wouldn’t consider supporting the EU officially.

Would you consider supporting US laws?

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ornornor 2 days ago
I’m happy to not have it if it’s not compliant, yes.
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