After successfully forcing Apple to go the USB C route, next I hope EU will standardize on the Social Media Apps too. Too many accounts too many apps. Too hard to be on all platforms.
I hope they go after endianness
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No, still not ambitious enough…
They should enforce the usage of the metric system (and get rid of the British imperial system and the United States customary system) 
(I’m fine with the USB-C mandate and I think being able to use the Euro in most European countries instead of local currency is great)
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It’s a tragedy that the UK did not go fully metric when it had the chance but it’s politically impossible for the next decade or so, probably, and the EU wanting it would make it even less possible. Sad but true.
I’d really like rules that make it possible to upgrade your own RAM and SSDs in macs - especially desktop ones. What Apple charges is blatantly out of line: a prima facie monopoly case.
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Yes, it’s already in progress.
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Maybe the EU should try to ban the UK from the metric system then 
. That might do the trink. Although I like pints and yards as units. Saying “let’s go for a pint” is much cooler than “let’s go for half a litre and a bit”. Going for a full litre like the people in Bavaria is not advised either.
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They are going after Apple’s App Store, that’s pretty ambitious. I’d rather get between a momma bear and her cubs. 
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Easier not to be on any of the platforms. Twitter is even more of a cesspool than it was before Musk took it over. Facebook is tired, Instagram too. Threads unlikely to succeed. Discord is aptronymic. Mastadon has not amassed a following. Truth Social — not I would venture in there — is close to bankruptcy (to match its ideology). Plus all those sites that are a vestigial presence of their former selves.
With the exception of a brief foray amongst Threads I never use dedicated apps. On the few usages I prefer to use web browsers with ad-blocking/anti-tracking extensions.
But it begs the question why does anyone need to be on all the platforms.
I think it depends whether you’re trying to reach people you already know, or as wide an audience as possible.
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Just mandate that all units of measure presented to EU citizens - whether they’re online, visiting a foreign country, or whatever - be expressed in metric units, and insist that they have the right to levy non-compliance fines against business entities outside the EU because they’re doing business to EU citizens, whether they know it or not.
Y’know…basically make it GDPR for measurement. 
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+1
I’ve gone back to rss and texting.
Europe might start building successful, global, tech companies.
There are no rules against that.
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Australia went fully metric but still talks in pints and schooners
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Interesting!
Although it is outrageous that pint sizes match in no two countries . US pint is smaller than UK pint. AUS beer pint is 570ml instead of 568.26125 ml.
Well, we do have ASML and SAP…
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While they are good examples, they pale in market cap comparison (we are talking billions vs trillions here).
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Well, the UK has Sage (accounting software), Kainos, Aveva, Skyscanner… Oh, and the company that invented and produces ‘ARM’ the instruction set currently taking over the world, used in the world’s fastest supercomputer and of course, our beloved M-series Macs. But the EU lost that in 2016. Geographically, you can count it as ‘Europe’ though.
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Well I personally include UK when I think of Europe, but the thread was specifically about the EU. Regarding who lost what in 2016, we are risking derailing the thread.
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120Hz refresh rate, hopefully.