Sander van Dragt's Notes

John Gruber writes about the difficult birth of Siri AI:

Last winter Apple sent an entire team, including engineers, to Brussels to present a proposal for the TSA (maybe that’s another acronym that needs rethinking on the basis of prior art) to ask, basically, “If we build this, would you deem it DMA-compliant?” and the Commission’s response was basically, “Build it first and then we’ll tell you, after we get feedback from your competitors on what they think of it.” And Apple doesn’t want to spend up to two years building a complex system, exclusively for the EU, only to find out then whether it was all for naught.

That sounds a bit like what all app developers have had to do since 2008, write the app only to find out Apple won’t approve it in the App Store? Now two wrongs don’t make a right, but it’s a little ironic. It’s not as if there are no rules for Apple to follow.

That said reality is more complicated than a quick take. #technology