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A pair of Apple AirPods Pro wireless headphones and charging case, taken on November 5, 2019. (Photo by Phil Barker\/Future Publishing via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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Imports always and everywhere improve us. The crucial basics of exchange come to mind with news that one of the best features of Apple\u2019s new AirPods Pro 3 won\u2019t be available to European users. European buyers won\u2019t have access to the AirPods\u2019 quick translation feature. <\/p>\n
Early reports indicate that Europeans will be deprived of what\u2019s potentially transformative thanks to the EU\u2019s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The latter demands Apple allow interoperability with European products without regard to Apple\u2019s desire to open its suite of products to the millions of producers who\u2019d covet the opportunity. Apple has every right to protect its world-leading brand from would-be partners who might compromise same. More on this in a bit. <\/p>\n
For now, stop and think about the European people and producers. Real-time translation is a big, big deal. Consider the rising ability of business owners to profitably communicate with all manner of potential customers with whom they formerly could not. From there, consider what this crucial new addition to AirPods would mean for European exporters, but equally important, European importers? It\u2019s no insight to say that communication looms large in business expansion. <\/p>\n
After which, consider the European people. All those different countries and all those different languages. What formerly was a barrier to interpersonal communication and business is now being erased by Apple. What an advance, one that\u2019s not just great for business and socializing, but one that also arguably fosters peace itself.<\/p>\n
Which requires a return to the DMA. It yet again demands interoperability for European technology, but seriously, what\u2019s the point? Some will reply that Apple\u2019s ubiquity in Europe threatens European producers if they can\u2019t piggbyback on Apple\u2019s success, but the reply tramples on a much greater reality. <\/p>\n
Specifically, the beauty of open markets is that if they\u2019re open, it\u2019s as though every good and service in the world is being manufactured right next door. Forget about a product\u2019s origin or which producers can tesselate their products with it, and instead concentrate on what matters: if markets are open and free, product origin quite simply doesn\u2019t matter. All that matters is that the product or service improves us. Which is a simpler way to contemplate the DMA. Precisely because open markets make it as though everything is being produced next door, what matters is product quality, nothing else. <\/p>\n
If European producers are worthy of interoperability with Apple products, then the DMA itself is rendered superfluous. If not, as in if forced interoperability renders products and services less than they might otherwise be, then European buyers are hurt by the law every bit as much as Apple itself. <\/p>\n
It cannot be said enough that work divided is the greatest, most pro-growth, most pro-peace concept that mankind ever happened upon. When people are doing what they do best for others, those done for get to subsequently do what they do best. <\/p>\n
Applied to Apple, its ubiquity is an effect of the usefulness of its products. Translated, Apple can only grow insofar as the people in the rest of the world prosper through usage of what it creates. <\/p>\n
At present, Europeans can\u2019t benefit from the totality of Apple\u2019s diligent work for them. No doubt Apple suffers in this scenario, but the biggest sufferers are the European people who will produce and prosper less precisely because Apple isn\u2019t being allowed to produce for them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of Apple AirPods Pro wireless headphones and charging case, taken on November 5, 2019. (Photo by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1572,49,48,74461,16794,18271,21569,4991,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-148766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-digital-markets-act","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-imports","14":"tag-john-tamny","15":"tag-protectionism","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}