actually the main issue is not the court, it the commission to forgive the fines if they comply ... that way they are really saying that is ok to break the rules for several years, as long as you fix them (as) late(r as possible)

what if they are in the USA, use a VPN to kill someone in EU ? while they are outside the EU, the action was still legal under EU laws and no crime was committed in the USA

see, i know how to play that game too :)

jokes aside, of course EU can't enforce a laws in the USA and vice-versa (while there are many attempts to force that via trade agreements), but there are many laws that are still valid even if people travel, tax fraud isn't legal, even if you are living for some months in the some tax heaven. Apple have a running business in EU, so they can't dodge following the EU rules (while i'm sure they will try as much as possible). Comparing unrelated topics is just a "Trump like move", smoke and mirrors to confuse people that aren't familiar with the issues... but still don't make it true

EULA can not overthrown a law, no matter what the companies say

welcome to the current bank system, how can i take your money today!

the problem is that you have to wait for the demand to be high, generate problems, pushing for a prices increase and wait a long time to build/upgrade what is missing... during all that time you will have all sort of problems... while paying a high price (that will not fall after the problem is fixed, of course, as the investment have to be payed). Also, it will fix the problem where you ave many people, remote locations will be slowly neglected (see how good is internet connection in rural areas)

in places where government can control and think ahead (call it communist, socialism, monarchy, dictatorship, the name do not matter), things are pushed to be solved before reaching to that level.

Market only oriented , you will pay more directly and suffer more than paying via your taxes and have the government fix the problems in a global way. yes, you are paying also the cost of expanding the rural areas, but hey, when rural ares add their solar and wind power, those cables are useful to get the power back to the cities later on, so that cost will be a bonus later on. On a market base system, there will be no rural power, as there was no investment for cabling it and and so no way big rural solar or wind systems are viable, only small projects for their own use

The cake and "market demand solves everything", both are a lie, yet in both the writing is in the wall to those who want to read it

look mommy!! an apple fan boy (or girl... or whatever)

you forget that those fines repeat until the problem is solved... so each month they have a new fine if they aren't actively fixing the issue.
if it reach the 10% of the earnings fine, for sure apple will either fix the issues or leave the EU... as ans EU is still lot of money, they can't afford not fixing the issues

people do travel, so either they allow EU people outside EU to still access the store (probably controlling the account country or device sell country), or they will allow anyone to do that via a vpn in europe... either way, sooner or later other countries will follow

so if you have no new devs, older ones will retire and you have not enough new ones with experience to manage things :)

He is a optimist, where everything works as expected, there are no errors, no corruption, no crashes, no weird data, no bugs (real bugs, animals) in the systems

When everything fails in weird ways, you will need a human, with lot of knowledge to dig depth and debug what is going on... and you will not have knowledge people if the "AI" is doing everything.

All he wants is to push the AI and sell more GPU... for a higher price, of course! even if it will doom the world...

correct, only after titanic they decided to start build water tight bulkheads, where it was possible, of course.
Titanic also had a coal fire in the coal storage (gravity feed storage, so no easy access) around the icebert hit area before launch and while controlled, it is suspected it was never put out. This could left a slow burning fires inside, that could have increased the temperature enough and weaken the iron on that region , making it fail more. This was alerted by several experts at that time but to avoid delaying the departure, they said the crew would monitor the problem during the travel

a EULA can't bypass a law. If the this law says that parts can be replaced without any hardware or software barriers (see the article), they can't block it after the repair.

Basically this will ban what apple is doing, by controlling the serial numbers of each part and brick the phone if any change without the proper firmware update by apple.

I'm sure that apple will try their best to workaround this, but then the law will be updated, they are really just buying time until they too will be forced to have a repair friendly product (but they will pretend that it was their idea, you know, for the environment and like!!)

you clearly are complaining just by complaining, your sentence make no sense.

If they make the product cheaper, it may fail more and they have to replace it by their cost, from free to the end user. so each time a product fails, it stealing their profit. So instead of using a 1 chip, that if fails will cost them 60€ to repair, they can use a 1.5 chip that last longer and have no repair. using a 0.5 chip will not help them, even if they could find a cheaper than 1 chip (they are already trying to find the cheapest components already, they can't really cut 1/4 of the product cost without people noticing it was a really much worse product)

You can say that they can increase the price, to cover this, but the reality is some manufactures already sell easy to repair products... so a increase of 1% may be unnoticed, but a hike of 30% or even 10% will put their product more expensive than the current repair friendly ones, making then lose market. The only brand that can do this is apple, just because people are stupid to pay for the brand, no matter what price they decide to put (how many years until the 5k US$ iphone... oops, there are already more expensive than that: https://www.luxhabitat.ae/the-... )

Notice that the warranty part is mostly extending what Europe already have
right now, personal goods (business to end user) have a minimum 2 years of warranty, this just enforce that after repair, the device still gets one extra year of warranty (in the past, that warranty was just for the replaced part, not anything else). business to business have 1 year warranty minimum

This will make manufactures to avoid programed failures to 2 years ( like right now, to force users to buy new when the old old fails), as it will bite them in the ass when they have to repair twice or more a device that fails before the 2 years. Sure, they can do that for 3 years, but still a risk and every time they improve something, the device will last longer and allow easier repair

As for who will cover the warranty, it is the seller, so the guy that gets the money. As seller have the cost, they will choose distributors and manufacturers that will give them better warranty and repair conditions, not just the race to the bottom of price. Even if they use insurances to cover this, brands that have higher quality will have a lower cost than brands that are known to be die fast (see the Samsung TV cases)

So while in the US, apple give 1 year free warranty (that is, not a extra insurance you have to pay), in Europe, it gives 2 years of free warranty. The cost isn't higher because of this, usually it is higher because of taxes (VAT mostly)

What helps cheap, low quality Chinese products is that they are cheap and useless enough that people do not complain... but if they buyers did request their legal warranty, this kind of products would have died already

so lets measure success by 5G deployment?! what stupid argument!

just in case marketing took your mind, 5G is not really important... sure, give more bandwidth, but for most usages it is useless... and have less range and is expensive. So really, why waste tons of money in to 5G? to get live video from drones. That being said, i bet that the 5G coverage in Europe is probably much better than in the USA, because this multiple companies were able to work together and share 5G stations, as the race to absolute profit king isn't the end goal.