iPhone Mirroring missing in Denmark after Sequoia update

EU protects their citizens, not all are tech nerds that know what they are doing. In other places it’s just wild west… and east

Really? Preventing a company to share all you data with the US spy agencies is „over regulation“?

EU is making the rules which makes it unfeasible, in the short term, for Apple to bring the features to EU. Apple may find it wise to see if the features become popular elsewhere first, before entering standards negotiations for implementing them in an open manner.

Link to Contact the DMA team in EU

From this article it means that to have the feature in EU, Apple should make the feature open. Perhaps "Android Mirroring" too.

The Verge about Apple vs. EU's DMA

Will Apple eventually think it will be worth the effort?

Apple Messages and Android is only just beginning now, and that is a major feature. Phone Mirroring is a minor curiosity.

I'm not complaining—I use both Android and iOS for work, so I get the pros and cons of each. But it's clear that Apple is trying to shift the blame onto the EU for certain regulations, when the reality is, the responsibility is entirely on them. It feels like they're deliberately pushing their customers to push back against the EU, rather than addressing the issue themselves.

Calin I couldn´t agree more with you, your comment was very needed. It is very upsetting that we as European customers can not enjoy Apple features to it´s fullness, we keep on choosing Apple for this ?

It´s been going on for years, it's not a now issue.

You're mistaken. In light of recent news, namely another multi-billion dollar fine due to the EU's vague regulations, they unfortunately made the sound decision not to risk 10% of their global revenue just because of one feature. The EU is solely to blame. As much as it may seem, not even Apple is above the law.

They aren't separate. Read the comment I was reacting to and stop propagating false conclusions. Apparently, the EU can do no wrong, yet "somehow," we will get fewer and fewer features across companies, now even more pronounced with AI. All thanks to the type of voter who refuses to hold his representatives accountable.

I agree with you on the sourcing of the price.. I'm just not sure that the average joe consumer understands the difference enough to make informed decisions on it. Likely we need the disparity of features to grow more apparent before many people notice or understand why their devices are working differently.

I should have put a better link to that I was agreeing with the top voted comment here to help context a bit.

Also I do agree with your final statement, though I see this as complex as the source of this could just as well be a manufacturer not allowing a company to integrate some amazing feature that people want in their device as it could be a regulator stopping a company releasing a feature.

Currently the regulators are causing Apple to withhold Apple Intelligence and Mirroring for whatever reason. But you'd have to agree that there have been many occasions where closed platforms have kept smaller companies that would happily be quicker to market with solutions there were demand for from being able to bring those kinds of features and products to the market despite user and market demand. Tricky issue indeed.

I don't think people anchor the price to a different region, but rather relative to the next best thing, including their old device. Now, for instance, buying cycles prolong as the old models are good enough for longer. At the same time, the higher models lead the sales. So one possible outcome is that the cycle prolongs even further while the price stays.

But there's a big difference: the law has the monopoly. A manufacturer can eventually be replaced. Even TSMC is supposedly replaceable within a year or so. This is why regulation can be uniquely damaging.

I just don't see companies having as much power as people often attribute to them. A big company can try to obstruct a small company, but it has limited means, especially if there's no dependence. It also has limited interest. You see small companies rise all the time. The reason is that, as a small player, you rarely compete with a big one head-to-head. You have leverage by serving something that a big company couldn't be bothered with due to low revenue.

I doubt that I will use iPhone mirroring much and have done fine without it so far. I was just curious enough to try it out.

Perhaps Apple just decided that this is a minor feature not worth the fight with EU regulation. The work needed to deal with regulations could exceed the work needed to make the feature.

Nope, this one is on EU. Having device mirroring only on iPhone is still better than having no device mirroring at all.

Tell me, why does Windows Nearby Share not work with Android phones and EU doesn't care about that?

Lithuania too!! 😒

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Any sources on "eventually"?