Apple warns it may need to slow the rate of introducing new features in the UK and may delay platform security patches in reaction to UK regulation. Apple frames these actions as responses to UK-specific rules it considers problematic while continuing to defend data privacy for US and international customers in a surveillance-prone environment. Most of these developments are political and are likely to deliver very little benefit, if any, to Apple or Google customers, including businesses that depend on their devices. The UK regulator denies that people will be left vulnerable and insists competition can proceed without undermining privacy, security, or intellectual property.
In response, Apple warns that it may need to slow down the rate at which it introduces new features in the UK. It may also slow introduction of platform security patches in response to other half-baked UK regulation, even as it potentially continues to fight for the data privacy of its US and international customers in the surveillance-happy state.
None of this is good, most of this is political, and there will be very little benefit, if any, for any Apple (or Google) customer, including the many businesses that make use of their devices. The UK regulator of course denies that people will be left vulnerable. "Driving greater competition on mobile platforms need not undermine privacy, security or intellectual property, and as we carefully consider UK-specific steps, we will ensure it does not," it said.
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