EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech
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No, unlock as in: You can install whatever operating system you want. No need for "jailbreaking" on Google phones. They officially support unlocking the bootloader (and re-locking it later as well!). There are many things not to like about Google, but how they handle their phones when it comes to openness is certainly not one of them. Pretty much all other phone vendors are much worse than that (except for maybe a few small ones like Fairphone).
You are talking about phones made by Google. I am talking about ALL the phones using Android and how difficult or sometimes impossible it is to use anything but Android. I am talking about (oranges) a monopoly on phone operating systems. And you are saying what great (apples) phones Google produces.
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You are talking about phones made by Google. I am talking about ALL the phones using Android and how difficult or sometimes impossible it is to use anything but Android. I am talking about (oranges) a monopoly on phone operating systems. And you are saying what great (apples) phones Google produces.
You are talking about phones made by Google. I am talking about ALL the phones using Android and how difficult or sometimes impossible it is to use anything but Android.
That's not what you were saying. You were explicitly talking about Google. Also, implying it is Google's fault that other manufacturers don't let you install other operating systems easily is pretty bizarre. If you want to complain about that, at least complain about the right companies. Those are usually the phone manufacturers and/or the SoC manufacturers. The SoC manufacturers often times are particularily problematic, since they often do not publish open source drivers at all or in a very limited fashion.
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Not a complete list, but
- Adobe: krita, gimp, inkscape
- Microsoft: linux, libreoffice, codeberg, playstation
- Apple: de-googled android, linux
- Google: de-googled android, tutanota, duckduckgo or kagi, libreoffice
- Amazon: *arr suite for amazon video, little choice for amazon the logistic company
Little choice?
- allegro in Poland
- Otto, Kaufland, galaxus, etc in Germany
- idealo Europe-wide
- aliexpress and co worldwide
- your local retailer
- second hand shops or apps if you are into saving money and/or the planet
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True. Nintendo is extremely cutthroat with their IP, they like going after emulators and similar.
Which is nowhere comparable to infecting your stuff with malware...
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Amazon - the logistics company - is just a front end for (and leech on) various drop shippers, lately, anyway.
Amazon used to carry quality guarantees, and have meaningful reviews, but lately the wild West crapshoot of the rest of the web is just as good.
(And at least on the rest of the web I have some idea who I'm buying from, and can avoid them after a bad experience. On Amazon, it got to where there was no way I could tell.)
Aren't drop shippers finished with the recent tariffs, especially closing the loophole of de minimis?
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Bonus: It might make some companies move to non-US hosters, making their data way safer.
I've switched to Hetzner and I'm super happy. Fuck DigitalOcean and their ever increasing prices.
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Don’t use tariffs. Legalize jailbreaking and adversarial interop instead. Disregard American DRM.
And legalize piracy of US-created media content such as movies and TV series.
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Newspapers, magazines, TV, film, movies, broadcasts are all regulated nationally and internationally
The same should be done for corporate social media companies who basically deliver all or most news content and information to people everywhere today.
The current state of the world is like being in the 1900s and only having six major newspapers in the world owned by big corporations and none of the content they publish or share is regulated or controlled.
Why not legalising piracy for media made in the US? Imagine if all movies and TV series were suddenly public domain in Europe...
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Exactly. Never do anything until you can do anything all at once. If you can't wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere, it's best to just keep the status quo.
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Exactly. Never do anything until you can do anything all at once. If you can't wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere, it's best to just keep the status quo.
Or, you know, do two things at once. It's not uneard of for a huge governmental entity to be able to do that.
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All it takes is a critical mass of users to make their own Facebook. A continental divide seems like a good place.
This isn't as much about the social media platforms, competing with those is relatively feasible. This is more about the professional infrastructure market. Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. There isn't really a European competitor there, the US dominates this market. We have a huge trade deficit on these services, which Trump "conveniently" didn't include in his trade war analysis.
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It's not about the providers, it's about the move. Companies will need to migrate their infrastructure to another platform which (let's be honest) likely will not have the bandwidth / rack space / hardware to support the influx of users. Companies will self host? Okay sure: time to spin up internal clusters, train employees, provision additional bandwidth / connections. And naturally - this will all go off without a hitch. Like flipping a switch.
And we need to remember that many of these services rely on each other so one goes down: they take each other out.
That entirely depends on who deeply they've locked themselves into a single-vendor set of services. If they used an abstraction tool to hide vendor-specific implementation detail, and were moderately smart, it'd take little besides minor config changes, redeployment and some regression testing.
Source: I've done it.
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But you love teams right?! (get the gas can - I'll get the matches)
I love to wish it on my worst enemies.
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This in combination with deregulating the single market and allowing EU tech startup to thrive would finally give birth to real competitors on our content.
GoEU
Pardon my ignorance but what does deregulating the single Market mean?
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little choice for amazon the logistic company
Depends on where you live. Here in Germany we have a few alternatives, like "Otto" and a few others with specialisations like electronics. Some of them have a marketplace just like Amazon and they even offer the same cheap chinese crap that Amazon has to offer. So you could feel right at home.
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Should be two pronged - tariffs on cloud and other services while fostering competitive local alternatives. While it's possible knock up a cloud out of anything there is nothing in Europe as coherent as the offerings by Amazon, Google or Microsoft. And there should be.
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A slap on the wrist for two of the tech giants is great progress. I would consider this a start, but not done yet.
The linked article supports this as well:
Tove Maria Ryding from the European Network on Debt and Development, an association of trade unions and non-governmental organisations, welcomed the ECJ's decision but stressed "our tax problem is more than just one rotten apple".
She said the case addressed tax matters dating back over 20 years and was "a perfect illustration of the chaotic corporate tax system we have".
“What we urgently need is a fundamental reform that can give us a tax system that is fair, effective, transparent and predictable," she said.
