The Netherlands population is a little more than half of Texas’s population. Apple could completely pull out of the Netherlands and wouldn’t even feel the affect.
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?
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.
Okay, so they'll have iPhones brick themselves (or disable all third party purchases) if location services detect they're within the netherlands.
- 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.