Can they just move the assets out to some random far-away jurisdiction? Say “we collect the data, but we actually sell it to this company in Panama and they have it, so we can’t give it to you”.
The EU could have had an effect on it via the DMA, but it seems that not many people use iMessage in the EU. People use Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger way more here, so those are forced into opening up.
iMessage message bubble colors seem to be an US problem.
No it won’t. This thing won’t go out with a bang, it dies with a whimper. It looks like people slowly slipping, avenues of social mobility slowly narrowing, new generations getting dumber, your bills getting higher and you being able to afford less and less. And there is no “breaking point”. By the time you end up on the street, many others will already be there for whom noone wanted to rock the boat. And not many will want to do so for you either.
Just look at news from Hungary for a while, that’s how it looks like when the money runs out and can’t flow up anymore.
That said, Unity’s new model encourages MTX in some ways, as new buys incur new Runtime costs, while MTX purchases from existing customers don’t. If anything, this encourages a model where there needs to be an upfront cost to cover the Unity tax, and further in-game purchases to make actual money.
So the news is that someone from DK claims that they know about an audio recording that someone from Fidesz tried to bribe someone from MKKP to help split the vote against the opposition.
Just a few facts to give people not familiar with the matter some perspective:
DK is the party built solely around the person of previous prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, whose government’s incompetence got Orbán into power with a constitutional supermajority in the first place.
After the election loss, his person became toxic, which caused numerous party splits, among them the very creation of DK itself splitting from the election loser MSZP.
Since he still has a relatively small, but die-hard following, and he doesn’t step back from politics despite him being one of the most hated politicians in the country, he keeps the opposition fatally divided.
And because the country is technically a two party system, he makes sure that no viable opposition party can rise as a challenger to Fidesz. In return, the government keeps him in power by using him as a boogeyman, so he alone gets publicity as an alternative to the government, purely because he has no chance at winning.
So yeah, the people complaining here are also “part of the system”, and without knowing more, my first instinct is that DK wants to smear their rival MKKP candidate with this affair. These guys lie as a matter of course, and it’s widely held that they are just as bad by intention as the current government, they are just also too incompetent to steal so efficiently.
I don’t know if it’s just anecdotal, but it feels like a lot of content is moving to Youtube. People make a 10+ min video out of what used to be a paragraph on a wiki site.
No, repeated extrapolation results in eventually making everything that ever could be made, constant interpolation would result in creating the same “average” work over and over.