[viktorcode]

You should remember that according to a court testimony the whole European area (which goes beyond EU) gives Apple 7% of their revenue, whereas breaking DMCA may incur penalties of ups to 10% of global turnover.

Those numbers make withholding "risky" products a no-brainer strategy. Also, those numbers put a hard limit of how much Apple will want reevaluate their general strategy of tightly integrated first-party software.

[solid_fuel]

Why do you keep bringing up DMCA?

> The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a 1998 United States copyright law

The DMCA is a law in the United States, it's not related in any way to Apple's decision to not roll out Siri in the EU.

[t-sauer]

Which court testimony are you talking about? A quick google search suggests that Europe is responsible for roughly 25% of their revenue.

Edit: 26% of their net sales comes from Europe for Q1: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2026-q1/FY26_Q1_Consol...

[bryanrasmussen]

there's a difficulty in evaluating how much goes into Apple revenue because Apple mixes Europe (not just EU) and Middle East.

The 7% probably comes from a Daring Fireball article, based on misunderstanding some Apple communications, and which Gruber later had to backtrack

https://medium.com/luminasticity/when-smart-people-cant-reas...

[viktorcode]

Yes, I was coming from Gruber's article, thank you for correcting me!

[ChrisClark]

Using an old AI to comment? What does the DMCA have to do with it?