Surely the point is competition, growth and a higher quality of life?

Or is it actually a crusade against margin?

It is multiple things at once. It's a typical antitrust law, to increase competition. Enough competition usually leads to lower prices and lower margins.

One thing it isn't for sure: "a crusade".

Phrasing it like that that without mentioning the $40B penalty if Apple releases the feature today feels a bit off to me.

Nobody in the EU would have been upset if they said: we cannot offer this in the EU because we want to shut out competitors from providing alternative LLMs and this is not allowed in Europe. Fine. I don't care.

Many Europeans are upset that Apple blames Europe that they cannot implement this because it would sacrifice privacy. (Which is kind of ironic, because the EU has nearly the best privacy protection worldwide.)

Apple doesn't care about privacy. By default (without ADP), your (i)Messages, Drive files, contacts, calendars, backups of data from third-party apps are not end-to-end encrypted [1]. US law enforcement can request it. EU citizens are not protected because the US can use the CLOUD Act to demand the data. If Apple really cared about privacy, they would have closed that hole long ago.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

I think that's exactly what people would be upset about as it was the impetus for the DMA in the first place.

Ah yes, famous EU privacy protections like Chat Control or ProtectEU

That's how the EU enforces its laws - a fine that hurts. How else would you like them to it?

You are agreeing with me. Apple would be violating the law by releasing it.

Thus the people that are mad at Apple for saying the EU is trying to stop them releasing this feature don't have much ground to stand on.

Well I guess that settles it. Losing to LLMs in CTF challenges must be in my head.

Same result and then Microsoft would be paying for arbitration

Yeah it gets radiated into space

Now Uber is profitable what stops a taxi from just competing again, forcing Uber to have to be unprofitable again?

Skill issue. Taxi companies aren't able to innovate and adapt and improve, despite the competition from Uber, preferring instead to use lobbying and regulations too survive in a post-Uber world.

Actually, it is a marketing issue. Taxis did innovate and did improve and imo are a better product than uber today. They have an app that is no different than what you expect with rideshare apps. Actually it is better, I can schedule a ride and get a flat rate with tip already baked in to places like the airport. No need to fret about surge prices at all, what I see when I schedule it today is what I pay when it comes tomorrow or next week or next month, whenever I've scheduled it.

But, no one uses it, because uber and lyft have become kleenex or coca cola: the brand name associated with the basic phenomenon, such that consumers cannot even think about the phenomenon without thinking first of the brand and probably resorting to the brand.

I’ve tried taxis like 4 times in the past 5 years or so. I regretted it 3 out 4 of those times.

Maybe I’ll try again in a few years.

Last time I was in Vegas (in 2026), there was a $40/$60 surcharge to my destination because the taxicab commission was able to enact regulations that says taxis can charge that, while Lyft/Ubers to the same location did not have to pay it. I was waiting at a smaller hotel for 20 minutes for a taxi to arrive to the taxi stand. There was a line of people an no taxis in sight. The time before that, I got hit with the ole "credit card machine doesn't work" bit.

If they wannted to innovate, every taxi stand would have a QR code to download their app, you set your destination while you're waiting in the line (if there is one), you get in the cab, the driver scans the QR code from your phone, payment happens via CC in the app, no surprises either. The phone app would show you the route, and then give an estimated price, and if there's an overage due to traffic/other problem, give me a notification on my phone. It would also let me set preferences for conversation/temperature.

You know very well uber is not doing the transportation industry a good service

Would you want to live there?

As a non Malawian no, but I do think its important to ask what the local sentiment of their country is.

Should HN links be compensated on a percentage of non-click-throughs? There are people who just come for the comments. Would you support this law being universal and not only applied to Meta/news?

HN links are not article summaries, so your question is not apt.

the people who do "AML checks" are the ones processing the transaction.

i don't do that every time i want to send money. private individuals don't just "run checks" - it would make commerce untenable and possibly unconstitutional.

say you get a passport, an address, a photo, a signature, a phone call - how do you verify any of this is real?

Even with a user agreement I think they need to gate their service behind that agreement, otherwise the agreement is optional and open ports are open for use.

You still need to form a valid contract - no notice, no assent, no contract.

If there's a gate that's being bypassed then this all changes but it doesn't seem like there is - and it doesn't seem like they can add one without breaking existing printers.

In this case, you're signing up for an account and entering into the user agreement to do so. There's a whole separate legal discussion to be had about the whole "scroll past it all and just click accept to make it to away" thing...