Hey, it's the law! You must comply, and for your convenience, your phone will do that automatically for you!
Good grief.
Companies will then be forced to make a decision based on the market size of your country. Or they will break the law, and you will have to deal with enforcement.
Most companies would like to do business in the EU.
And as we've seen time and time again, China can get away with a lot of bullshit with demands anywhere from tech to culture (e.g. MCU films that ended up censored). At least now, Apple has woken up and begun moving off production to Vietnam, and Marvel has decided to ignore Chinese demands after all.
But of course, that wouldn't be convenient, and a lot of people would be confused, and that would generate costly support calls, so they'd rather just violate the sanctity of the things we apparently don't really own and put intrusive hooks into "our" hardware and software.
In the case of this particular requirement -- that wireless alerts be enabled -- I would almost certainly just enable them and go about my day. But reaching into my device and changing things without my consent crosses a line.
The people who have the power to make the phones vs the people who have the power to make laws and prevent the makers from selling, vs a few individuals who actually care and a large majority who do not have the time to care.
I’d love to vote with my wallet, but I live in a country that 90%+ votes against me, so my vote is meaningless.
Of course, you can liberate yourself quite a bit from the draconian rule of the manufacturer by rooting the device, but then you're also able to disable cell broadcasts permanently...
If you suffer from panic attacks, for example, and these alerts trigger them, they do not help you, no matter how well intended.
If you suffer from (C)PTSD, and these alerts trigger flooding, they actually make everything worse.
If this were to happen while you are driving, you might even cause an accident.
The world is sadly too complex for simple solutions that assume something to be always good or helpful.
Which is why I believe it's important for the user to eventually control his device.
