Genuine question ...
Why doesn't the EU apply these same rules to video game consoles (Xbox/PlayStation)?
They arguably have an even more restrictive environment than iOS.
Why doesn't the EU apply these same rules to video game consoles (Xbox/PlayStation)?
They arguably have an even more restrictive environment than iOS.
Low-tech people often don't bother buying new computers since their phones are required for banking (BankID identification) whilst the computer is optional.
Yet they inarguably have less marketshare and a reduced role in citizens’ lives. Modern living in society necessitates some digital access to the internet. Even homeless people have smartphones. Yet all those crucial interactions are mediated by devices controlled by too few players, meaning that a couple of foreign rich companies dictate too much of what you can do and have provably and repeatedly abused that power to entrench themselves further.
Consoles are entirely different, people don’t depend on them for interacting with society.
This isn’t about punishing Apple.
It’s about economic opportunity for EU citizens and businesses.
The EU has a responsibility to promote the prosperity of its citizens. If that means dictating how a US company does business, then that’s what they are going to do. Which is the EUs prerogative.
As an aside, and something that is seldom mentioned, but if Apple and the other trillion dollar tech giants just paid their fair share of taxes then they may not be in this mess!
The answer is no.
Anyway, please consider stopping trolling.
e.g. Can you pay for groceries with it like you can with a phone? Can you use it to pay for food at a restaurant, buy train tickets, or many other things are in many cases cashless.
"access online banking and manage asset" is a shorter way of saying all of the myriad of ways people need to use online banking day to day.
> a phrase I’ve mostly read in stupid comments about Twitter in the last couple of years.
I try not to read stupid content so I don't know.
> Anyway, please consider stopping trolling.
The irony.
So, yes.
The answer is only "yes" if you ignore reality.
Yes, they're computers, but so is your washing machine. But these aren't general purpose computing devices. To me, it makes no sense to enforce a free-for-all for those.
It's so genuine that it's asked in every single thread on this topic.
From the rules: do not assume astroturfing or that others are non-genuine.
That said, I wouldn't be amazed if attention is paid to consoles sooner or later, possibly bundled in with smarttvs.
45M MAU is the DSA threshold [0]
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120M MAU is what XBox has [1]
116M MAU is what PSN has [2]
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/531063/xbox-live-mau-num...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272639/number-of-registe...