When will Apple Intelligence be available in Europe?

The EU antitrust regulation, 'Digital Markets Act' (DMA), requires that the features of a platform are also accessible to third parties (e.g. via API), to prevent Big Tech from acting as gatekeepers.

To comply with the EU DMA, Apple should make Apple Intelligence features accessible to other developers.

While I believe the Digital Markets Act is beneficial, in this case it fails to acknowledge the different levels of trust that consumers have toward various Big Tech companies.

I personally would never want my personal data (accessible by Apple Intelligence) to be made available to Meta, Google, and other App developers.

That's it

Yea I mean if we want phones that take advantage of transformer based artificial intelligence in Europe we need to buy google?

Why is google compliant but Apple not? If anything Apples appears to be more likely to comply with EU law.

they should allow eu users to sideload apple intelligence

So AI in EU is only on Android?

Skuggan123 wrote:

Very bad move to pull AI.

Never before have I seen so many still available, normally the Pro models sells out within minutes in Sweden, there are still units to grab if you need a new phone, people are hesitating this time due to several features being pulled from the EU market.

Then let your government officials in the EU know you're not happy about their restrictive restrictions.

Well, that’s the rub in the DMA. By claiming to protect consumers it is actually harming both their privacy and security. Most of these “consumer protection” laws in developed countries do just the opposite. Bureaucrats with no knowledge of the issues involved make sweeping regulations.

No, for now at least you will not get Apple Intelligence. Whether Apple can or will ever make it available in the EU is something no one here, who are all just your fellow users, will know. It appears that it would take alterations to the EU's Digital Markets Act, but that's uncertain since only Apple knows the full depth of the issue. We'll just have to wait and see, but for the foreseeable future at least, I very much doubt it.

Regards.

varjak paw wrote:

No, they mention the French and Spanish languages. There are many countries in the world that speak one of those two besides France and Spain.

I thnk people forget that, especially with Spanish. Mexico has the largest number of Spanish speakers. Spain is fourth on the list. Seven of the ten countries with the largest French-speaking populations are not in the EU. And, of course, the country with the largest population of Portuguese speakers isn't in the EU, either.

No, they mention the French and Spanish languages. There are many countries in the world that speak one of those two besides France and Spain. Apple has made it clear that for the foreesable future, Apple Intelligence will not be available in any EU country.

Apple Says That

“Apple Intelligence first launches in US English, and will quickly expand to include localised English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK in December, with additional language support — such as Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish — coming next year.”

Now they mention France and Spain, which are part of the European Union 🇪🇺 which means we might be getting it next sometime year.

lkrupp wrote:

Epzod wrote:

So AI in EU is only on Android?

Apple Intelligence (AI) won't run on Android

I think he means AI in general, like Androids integrated AI and not Apple Intelligence.

Epzod wrote:

Yea I mean if we want phones that take advantage of transformer based artificial intelligence in Europe we need to buy google?

Why is google compliant but Apple not? If anything Apples appears to be more likely to comply with EU law.

Because Google does not care about your Privacy. In fact their largest revenue source comes from harvesting your personal information to sell to advertisers. Feel free to give your personal information to ChatGPT, there is nothing stopping you, but Apple will not allow it on their devices using Apple Intelligence and use their own private servers to make sure that does not happen.

Apple has suggested due to EU regulations, Apple Intelligence won't be coming to the EU. Since the Netherlands are in the EU, that would indicate AI won't be coming to you when it it released. Beyond that, we have no more information as this is a user to user only forum, which no one from Apple participates or will comment.

Apple will not compromise users security or privacy to introduce a feature in the EU that will be required to be made available for access by other devices. It will be up to the regulators in the EU to make a decision if it will violate the DMA rules put in place there. They have been down that road before.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/21/apple-ai-europe-dma-macos.html

Over the course of the next year, Apple Intelligence will expand to more languages, like Chinese, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and others

This is from Apple. So I get that some of these languages are spoken outside of the EU like French is spoken by a ton of people in Canada or in African countries as well I believe.

But honestly German? That's spoken 80% in Germany and a few other countries around Germany that are also in the EU. So clearly Apple wouldn't work on a German version that will then be used by 15-20% of german speaking people. Same goes with Italian. Like most of Italian speaking people are in Italy, why would they develop this in Italian if it won't be used by people in Italy? This proves that they're surely working on bringing it to the EU next year.