This feels like a joke. Hypocrite ship with Google at the helm. The same Google, that just lost to Epic in court for sweetening Play Store deals for preferred devs. Oh, and throw in some puny smartphone producing companies for effect. Don't get me started on Meta being in the bunch.
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Apple Rivals Unite to Promote Open Ecosystems Using EU Law
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Not likely. Do you really think a majority of the voters care whether you can buy Apple products or not? I'm willing to bet there are more people that hate Apple simply because they have a lot of money, than there are people that hate EU restricting corporations.
Just look at the comments on this forum. This is an Apple forum. This is where all the fanboys are. Yet, a majority of posters here seems to want Apple to open up their platform, although perhaps not through political decisions. I think a LOT of people would use it as an excuse to hate Apple even more. Even I, a self-declared Apple fanboy and not a big supporter of EU, would blame noone but Apple, if they pulled out. They have 3 trillion dollars, they can afford to run their business the way each market requires them to. If they can manage China, they can manage EU.
This conversation is repeated across every sideloading conversation.
A: If you don't sideload, it won't affect you.
B: It will affect me as soon as the first app that I need or want leaves the App Store for a third-party source.
Again, putting all the trust in the consumer is about the worst thing you can do. If there was slave labor involved in making the product, but the product is widely available, plenty of consumers will still buy the product. The number of people who do their research and decide not to will be small because most people aren't thinking in those terms with every product they buy – they're just trying to live their lives in a way that's convenient for them.
In order to abolish the slave labor, government regulation will be absolutely necessary.
Please show a recent finding where apple violated antitrust laws anywhere in the world in line with this conversation.
Citing other example of antitrust doesn’t prove a point.
Which won't happen, so don't worry!This conversation is repeated across every sideloading conversation.
A: If you don't sideload, it won't affect you.
B: It will affect me as soon as the first app that I need or want leaves the App Store for a third-party source.
You really need to understand the issue before you post.
1. It isn’t about green, blue, purple, or whatever color. It is the ability to have secure comms between OS’s using the default apps.
2. Standard RCS has no encryption standard so when Apple puts RCS into iMessage there won’t be any encryption. No security but Android will get better quality comms sent from iMessage. Apple refuses to use the Google added encryption.
3. Apple will never adopt something else as they rely on iMessage to retain users. They have confirmed that a number of years ago when the “iMessage for Android” first came up.
4. SMS/MMS should have been replaced long ago.
Apple can't do this because they're just as much in cahoots with Facebook, Google etc with their business deals. They don't care about privacy any more than they can promote it to their benefit. There's no actual backbone to it. They need those corporations on their platforms to make money and we all know if there's one thing that modern day Apple (read Tim Crook) loves more than anything else, it's money.
@downpour
It is more widely used than most realize when you stop and think about it.
Samsung Store
OnePlus Store
Moto Store
Amazon Store,
etc….
Then add in the third party non-OEM stores and dev sites.
I could be wrong but Google doesn’t get a cut of the OEM stores.
Surely a point will come when the US government responds with their own regulatory laws to counter these type of moves by the EU.
Shareholders might not like the reduced market share if Apple pulled out of the EU but maybe there is a way for Apple to stick to its principles of privacy and security of their products.
Yeah, common sense-ridden zealots who understand the convenience of using the same cable that came with their iPad or MBP over 5 years ago to also charge their iPhone and most every mobile device they own.
Why would it be like Android? OS aside they are very similar and apps that exist for one are likely to exist for the other. If not the exact app it is a close equivalent.
Forcing it to be like an OS it never was designed to be like and most of chose becuase it was nothing like Android.
I almost feel bad saying that I look forward to sideloading and the inevitable issues it brings to people thinking they are installing apps from a secure thing only for it to blow up in their faces.
you literally are implying that a majority of people are not capable of knowing how to sideload (as if it is that difficult) thus impyling them as dumb but okay then.
You’re equating product features and App Store requirements to slave labor? Really?
Here is why I disagree with your premise.
1. We don’t know what Apple’s solution will look like.
2. If fragmentation and subscriptions were going to be all over the place we would have seen this on Android. Apple is heavier on “pushing” subscriptions than Android is.
3. You are assuming that any change in this arena will cause Apple to become Android and/or Windows.
Personally I prefer to cut out the middle man and buy direct.
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Oh I wish that were true.
iOS is not the safest nor the most private. They do a better than average Marketing roll.
Even if this is Apple centric forums, most of us have evolved from being labeled mere fanboys because we are lot more open minded (aware or use multiple platforms) and not pessimistic about most things except when it comes to having any governmental organization dictate standards that financially benefit solely their governments. Obviously this topic related to that.
BTW China is very different then EU, EU is like a big family that loves to argue between themselves. Comparably China can relate to specific one sides of an argument that helps their business goals.
I wish we could cease to think of market perceived value based on stock portfolio values, instead of how much the real assets vs debits is worth. Borrowing money from stocks is just acquired debt isn't? Look at other days Space X marketplace valuation, its grossly overvalued from a speculative point of view.
SpaceX valuation climbs to $180 billion
The valuation of Elon Musk's SpaceX hit $180 billion based on an ongoing secondary share sale, CNBC confirmed Wednesday.
I am not doing your leg work for you mate.
Google (since you love Android, it seems it should be easy for you to use) is your friend.
Piracy is a huge problem on Android to the fact that the US justice department is actively going after pirates.
A simple google search also brought a subreddit with nearly 2 million active users dedicated to specifically Android piracy. But okay, piracy is not an issue /s
It's no different than Windows. I dont know why you act offended that I said Androdi users pirate apps. Because they do. It's easy to do and not that difficult.
