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  "content_md": "Stuff like this is likely to be a key strategic factor in world reconfiguration over the next generation. Such differences offer up persistent differential advantages to the parties that play the terrain most effectively.\n\n> The US gets the newest AI, the richest subscription bundle and every satellite service. The EU gets app-store freedom, stronger consumer rights, a SIM tray, and blood-oxygen readings on the wrist. And a surprising amount depends on which member state, and which language, you use.\n\n[Apple in the EU vs the US — what you get, what you don't, and what you get instead ↗](https://theotherapple.eu/)",
  "content_html": "<p>Stuff like this is likely to be a key strategic factor in world reconfiguration over the next generation. Such differences offer up persistent differential advantages to the parties that play the terrain most effectively.</p>\n<blockquote><p>The US gets the newest AI, the richest subscription bundle and every satellite service. The EU gets app-store freedom, stronger consumer rights, a SIM tray, and blood-oxygen readings on the wrist. And a surprising amount depends on which member state, and which language, you use.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://theotherapple.eu/\">Apple in the EU vs the US — what you get, what you don't, and what you get instead ↗</a></p>",
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