Apple blames DMA for delaying Siri AI in Europe. The EU says nothing is stopping Apple from launching it.
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Jan Penfrat, a senior policy adviser for European Digital Rights (EDRi) … sees Apple’s latest moves as a means of putting pressure on the EU Commission to allow it to break the DMA. “It’s very much a lobbying tactic,” he said. “The problem is not the DMA but Apple refusing to open up its competition-busting software ecosystem.”
For Michael Veale, a professor of technology law and policy at University College London, the core issue is that Apple is making an exception to its own long-standing privacy and security setup “in order to stay relevant and in the game” when it comes to AI. “Apple’s privacy and security model is built like a Jenga tower, based on extreme vertical control by the firm, and risks collapsing when interoperability is introduced.” In other words: Apple’s comfortable altering its own practices for Siri AI, giving the AI the ability to access lots of data across different apps, but argues the same kind of access is too dangerous when competitors ask for it.
Veale and Penfrat both said there’s no way to properly assess Apple’s proposed solution because the company has not made it public. Other experts, such as [the professor of competition law and digital regulation at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, Friso] Bostoen, questioned why Apple needs as long as 18 months to implement it, given the interoperability requirements were predictable and should have been addressed in parallel with the development of Siri AI.
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Same old game…
This is a prime example of why corporate complaints about “bEaUrOcRaCy” can’t be taken seriously. When big corps whine about overregulation, it’s typically just a pretext for axing consumer, worker or environmental protections that effectively keep them from acting like complete dickwads.
Yes, and at the same time, Apple has been surrendering to all censorship and surveillance rules made by China without delay.
There is an old documentary from 2021, Profiting from authoritarianism - How Tim Cook surrendered Apple to the Chinese government (Invidious link),
and another one from 2025, Apple’s unsolvable China problem - How Apple sold its soul to an authoritarian regime (Invidious link).
I hope the EU doesn’t give in as it did all too often imo.
The EU has already made the mistake of bending to the orange moron’s tariff extortion scheme once - only for him to fabricate a reason to come back and demand more. Apple and other big tech corps are banking on his support throughout this - after all, they’ve
openly bribed himcontributed to his campaign, ball room and his family’s projects many times over.Let’s hope the EU learnt that there’s no deals to be made with con men and have him and his corporate backers walk into a brick wall, face-first.
Wait, did you just link to a video of Bari Weiss talking about surrendering to authoritarianism?