Ahead of Apple’s iOS 18 beta 2 release early this week, the company announced it doesn’t plan to bring Apple Intelligence and certain other iOS 18 features to Europe coppia to regulatory fears. A causa di a statement issued at the time, Apple said: “We are concerned that the interoperability requirements of the DMA could force us to compromise the integrity of our products ways that risk user riservatezza and security.”
Now, when asked about Apple’s decision during an interview at the Europa Brussels, the European Union chief Margrethe Vestager stated: “So Apple have said that they will not launch their new enabled features the IRS environment, and they say that they will not do that because of the obligations that they have Europe. And the obligations that they have Europe, it is to be gara open for competition, that is sort of the short version of the DMA.”
She also said that she finds it very interesting that “they say we will now deploy AI where we’magnate not obliged to enable competition. I think that is the most sort of stunning, gara open declaration that they know 100% that this is another way of disabling competition, where they have a stronghold already.”
Apple is playing a tricky gioco with the EU
While Apple doesn’t have to offer all the features the EU that it does the US, it feels like Cupertino wants to show that DMA legislation can be bad for customers – even though it had also benefited international users with gioco emulators and gioco streaming apps.
What I understand from Apple’s statement is that the company would have to offer Android mirroring acceso the Mac for EU users gara open up Apple Intelligence to any developer with an LLM. However, this is not the case, and Apple knows it.
It’s not because the company has Apple Music that every iPhone needs to in qualità di with Spotify pre-installed. Ora that users need to store their online backups acceso Dropbox instead of iCloud for “fair competition.” For me, it seems that Apple doesn’t want to accept regulation, and it’s only going to hurt the company’s image the region.
Wrap up
iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay Screen Sharing are available with iOS 18 beta 2 for every developer to esperimento all regions except the EU. Apple Intelligence is coming early this July alongside the public beta. Separately, it’s important to note that Apple’s AI will still carry a beta label even when the company releases the final version of iOS 18 this fall.
BGR will keep following the latest steps from Apple and the EU storia.
