2 is actually required to be logically consistent with their psychopathic propaganda. Most of the Russian argument to invade Ukraine in diplomatic and legal channels is recycled from Hitler’s argument to invade Poland (they just replaced Danzig with Donbas).

By doing maximalist territorial claims based on the historical boundaries of the Russian Empire, they directly threatened Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania just in the European Union. Even Hitler didn’t make such bold claims before WW2.

OneUI includes the PWAs in the app drawer and search like native apps.

Samsung’s OneUI handles PWAs much better than stock Android. What Google does is the bare minimum.

If you don’t trust me, use the Apple fee fee calculator with different terms: https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-calculator-for-apps-in-the-eu/

For 10 million in sales, you need to pay 250k with the old terms and 166k with the new ones if you use apple pay and 141k if you use an alternative in app method.

If you don’t “volunteer” to pay the 30% fee you need to pay the 50 cents per I install core tech fee every month, so you have to pay a tax to Apple even if you don’t have your app in the app store. And you still need to pay a 10% fee on payments if the user installed the app from the App Store. A fee, that unlike sales taxes, you can’t pass to the users, so people buying on websites directly still need to subsidize Apple’s (and to be fair Google’s) neo-feudal fiefs.

See the core tech fee for developers that want the new terms. It’s not zero fees on third party stores, it’s 50 cents /month per install over 1 million users.

Have you seen the €0.50 “core tech fee” per app installation/year Apple wants to charge even if the app is installed from a 3rd party store? An app with 2 million users will be expected to pay 41000€ a month, and one with 10 million around 375000€ every single month, and this without counting the transaction fee.

Of course, if you comply with Apple’s feudal claims then you can stay stuck in the App Store and pay a 30% sales tax (that unlike sales taxes from non-mafia institutions you aren’t allowed to pass to the customers, because obviously non-apple users also have to subsidize Apple users) like a good peasant, they “generously” wave the new fee.

The announced changes sound like retaliation. Considering Apple is acting like a sovereign state by collecting taxes from what it perceives as its subjects it looks suspiciously like an act of war.

Did you include the part where members of Israeli governments are openly discussing forcibly removing the Palestinian population of their homeland? Expulsion is also a form of genocide.

One of the most baffling things for me, is how many Israeli politicians, including Natanyahu express their intent out loud. Even Russia uses unofficial mouthpieces to express their genocidal intents to avoid tying it to the state’s actions.

I mean, Portugal only sold the entire electrical network and power stations to the Chinese government. I guessed this will stop the government selling the army too.

That’s basically some people’s entire lives.

Switzerland applies most of the EU laws because they want access to the single market though, so for this purpose they might as well be in the EU.

The auction is the issue. If it was for personal use and if it would go back with him, it would be fine, but since it’s going to change owners in Europe it needs to pay custom fees. That aside, the German police is a caricature of itself.

I’ve a counter proposal, we make Austria-Hungary a thing again, but with current borders, and build a 50m high wall around it.

And then we allow Romania and Bulgaria into Schengen.

Letting people build a Heroin-Cyanide candy factory would also bring jobs, I still think it should be illegal.

The data is already processed in Europe, that doesn’t change. The fact that they are getting marching orders from the CCP also doesn’t. And even if they were Europeans what they are doing should be a crime.

Because their algorithms have a clear negative impact on Europeans mental health and are contributing to the deterioration of democracy? Or because they are thinly veiled front for Chinese intelligence services?

It’s still not on the cards, this is about a mushroom adapting to form a symbiotic relationship with trees. Unless you meant we are at a higher risk of being invaded by zombie ents.

I think this will end up being the same case as things that end up on search engines. I.e. you’ll need to send hundreds of right to be forgotten requests to every service.