Like EU seems to be fining some large amounts for some company and they basically the only ones fighting for privacy laws, repairability etc. I am pretty sure if they don’t serve EU they can make better bucks by exploiting and doing things they can’t under EU . Am i wrong or missing something ? Why don’t they just pack bag and leave ?
The EU can slap around big companies like apple because they are not headquartered there. Thus they can impose rules on their products. Granted apple will make slightly less money but they are still making plenty of profit from EU residents.
The US can’t do the same to apple since Apple is headquartered in the US, and can leave the US. The US gets tons of money (and bribes) from apple and companies similar to it (Amazon, Microsoft, etc).
TLDR, the EU gets little money from apple, US gets big money from apple, and GDP figures (and all people care about is the economy when electing presidents)
We can and should do the same thing to Apple.
When did we forget as a nation that we can break up any business we want to? That we, as citizens, get to decide shit like this?
Jesus, vote for some people who haven’t forgotten this basic American history.
Give me someone who’d actually do that lol. People are so hell bent on economic figures that we’d never see a prez willing to break up big conglomerates or monopolies.