When a company goes to war with the government, the company always loses. It is time for Cook to learn it. He is under a delusion that he is god.
So, they can stop _selling_ in the Netherlands, but given how close is any Dutch to another EU state, I don't see it as a problem for purchasing a phone.
Apple will sustain that, given the phone wasn't bought in the Netherlands, they are not subject to their laws. Good luck with that.
>Except they cannot[...]
>[...] they can stop _selling_ in the Netherlands
I don't get it. Aren't you agreeing with the parent poster?
Okay, so they'll have iPhones brick themselves (or disable all third party purchases) if location services detect they're within the netherlands.
How are the Dutch going to come after Apple if they don’t have a presence in the country?
> How are the Dutch going to come after Apple if they don’t have a presence in the country?
The EU is a single market, for good or for ill.
If I only sold a physical product in GA and someone from Texas bought it and took it home. They could only sue me in GA under GA laws.
The US is also a “single market”. But each state has its own laws.
- not all are buying iPhones
- roughly 3 million of the population are under 15.
Growth at all costs regardless of margin is what money losing unicorns do. Not what companies do that are worth 3 trillion dollars.
And Apple is not a money losing unicorn. They don’t sell anything at a loss, and they wouldn’t be selling at a loss even if they made a good faith effort to comply with these regulations.
The question is what their margins look like: reasonable, or obscene? Apple is fighting to maintain the latter. Pulling out of the country would make them less money than complying.