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Remember I told you that Apple had this great new feature for their AirPods and it would allow you to put them in and it would translate several different, mostly I guess European languages, and it would do it sort of instantly. Well, the only place you're not going to be allowed to do that would be in Europe where they speak English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, the very languages that are translated. And it looks like according to Politico that it's Apple pushing back against the newish Digital Markets Act in Europe that is sort of punishing for the big tech companies. And Apple's decided that Europe can't have nice things. I kind of like that.
It's not like a hard pushback. It's just telling them, hey, we just spent like a hundred million dollars developing this featu
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re that is primarily useful for Europe and Europeans and you can't have it. It's just not available to you. Now, I assume, but I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. But I would assume that if you were an American and you were traveling to Europe, you could get the app in America and it would work in Europe. I don't know about that, but I'm guessing it might. And I like that little subtle pushback. Yo…
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