Apple Throws Down the Gauntlet to European Regulators

Will Europeans start to regret their governments’ aggressive regulation of U.S. tech? That’s surely going to be a question sparked by Apple’s decision today to withhold a bunch of attractive new technologies—such as its artificial intelligence–powered offerings—from its products in Europe, citing the continental rules on how tech firms operate.

Many of the updates Apple unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago won’t show up anytime soon on European iPhones, iPads or Macs. That includes Apple Intelligence, which upgrades what Siri can do, including searching across apps for hard-to-find information, and iPhone Mirroring, which allows you to manipulate what’s on your iPhone screen via your MacBook.