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EU Chief Calls on Apple CEO Tim Cook to Open Hardware and Software Ecosystem
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Why? The connector itself is designed poorly. Lightning is far stronger and will put up with heavier use/abuse. USBC ports are known to get loose over time, I had to replace both sides on my 2017 MBP and those ports received far lighter use than my phone would. When I travel for work I can make as many as 10 stops a day which means I need to plug and unplug my phone from my car that many times, while I never had a lightning port fail I have no confidence that a USBC port will survive that longterm, AppleCare FTW!
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I’m sure Apple is right that the issue really is security and privacy, and it’s just a coincidence that this arrangement lets them take a chunk of their competitors’ margins and decide what types of apps you can and cannot install on a device you paid for.
I don’t think it’s that, I think that regulators and tech “journalists” have an extremely low level of technological illiteracy itself.
Most of those institutions should have their digital services in websites instead of apps, anyway.
You can’t be attacked for having a “monopoly” over YOUR OWN PRODUCT within a larger market.
It’s like saying General Mills should not be allowed a “monopoly” over Coco Puffs.
Apple is not a market unto itself; it competes in the smartphone market (among others). You are free to choose their product or a product from their competitors.
Part of Apple’s product is the App Store exclusive system.
Don’t like it? Don’t buy it, go with a competitor.
This is really not difficult stuff.
While the 30% sucks, they do handle A LOT of the complications of taxing and payments infrastructure for you. That stuff is extremely expensive and hard to get right.
Why in the world should that be open to anyone with a pulse?
Can we just drop the act in the US and EU? The fight against encryption alone should tell you that none of this stuff is actually about consumers, that’s the marketing angle of the real agenda, complete tracking of everyone at all times.
Same for these annoying popups for cookies that nobody care about. Using the private mode in a browser became a nightmare.
I imagine they have the NFC chip in mind so that Google et al can transplant their own payment systems onto an iPhone.
Sadly as with the vaccine farce showed the EU can't organise a p*s* up in a brewery. The EU was set up originally as a Common Market, but then tinpot unelected dictators who openly gave speeches about lying along with talking to aliens found a new empire they could inhabit....The EU, the Federal Europe, with so much fraud in it, the accounts could hardly ever be signed off.
This organisation knows absolutely nothing about innovation let alone computing, but knows everything about bloating a bureaucracy so much and overriding the sovereign nations that joined.
Can anyone name ONE innovation in computing that the EU have initiated?
You need an interpretation of the Double Speak coming from the EU and this is my best attempt:
"we want unlimited access to users information"
This organisation knows absolutely nothing about innovation let alone computing, but knows everything about bloating a bureaucracy so much and overriding the sovereign nations that joined.
Can anyone name ONE innovation in computing that the EU have initiated?
You need an interpretation of the Double Speak coming from the EU and this is my best attempt:
"we want unlimited access to users information"
Apple should just sell iPhone EU (which would probably be quickly nicknamed iPhone FU) like the US sells/exports F-16s w/out the advanced/classified systems.
Yes - but not without questioning it - if the only alternative is a browser monopoly then Apple crippling competition is the lesser of two evils. Alternatively, if there was a healthy browser ecosystem with multiple thriving rendering engines I would be very happy and excited to see alternative rendering engines on iOS. But that isn't the world we live in.
It's not about defending billion dollar governments its really all about invading our privacy, using whatever excuse they can come up with.
This might be my favorite post. If the iPhone opens up to third party Appstores the first thing any security focused company will do is block sideloading.
This will also kill the very hard fought for MAM for phones. Spent two years getting my company to drop MDM for MAM. Now companies will want MDM again to protect the device instead of just the applications.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/this...ng-from-100-banking-apps-protect-yourself-now
I suggest you all read the article and focus on how this malware is spreading. Right now a bad website can't do a darn thing on a iPhone. This will make iPhones just another Android.
No I'm not worried I'll have an issue. I'm worried about my family and friends who don't know better. I don't want to deal with managing phones on top of computers.
It’s not Apple’s fault that German and French companies have been largely unable to create competitive personal tech or digital services.
In Germany they are still using cash, sending faxes and queuing at government / state offices to get things done. I doubt France is much different when it comes to digitalisation.
There is actually very little one can’t do using public APIs on an iPhone. Using NFC for payments is the only major “locked down” HW element in an iPhone these days.
Apple Pay launched in 2015 and came to Europe soon after. It’s really a bit late now. Banks won’t start implementing their own wallets anymore. Effectively nobody did that on Android either.
It gets quite ridiculous if companies aren’t allowed to have any “proprietary” features anymore. Even AirPod’s easy pairing would probably be considered illegal under DMA.
Oh and allowing Chrome to use Google’s own rendering engine will seal Google’s total victory in web technology space. It won’t foster innovation - even MS dumped their own tech in favor of Google’s.
Sideloading will cause a flood of fake banking apps etc. to hit iPhone too, just like on Android.
In Germany they are still using cash, sending faxes and queuing at government / state offices to get things done. I doubt France is much different when it comes to digitalisation.
There is actually very little one can’t do using public APIs on an iPhone. Using NFC for payments is the only major “locked down” HW element in an iPhone these days.
Apple Pay launched in 2015 and came to Europe soon after. It’s really a bit late now. Banks won’t start implementing their own wallets anymore. Effectively nobody did that on Android either.
It gets quite ridiculous if companies aren’t allowed to have any “proprietary” features anymore. Even AirPod’s easy pairing would probably be considered illegal under DMA.
Oh and allowing Chrome to use Google’s own rendering engine will seal Google’s total victory in web technology space. It won’t foster innovation - even MS dumped their own tech in favor of Google’s.
Sideloading will cause a flood of fake banking apps etc. to hit iPhone too, just like on Android.
You've hit the nail on the head in just one part of your comment "The EU is asking for Apple to be more open" Basically its about Apple letting the EU into our devices.
People can choose from an immense amount of non-Apple options.
So, your argument for destroying Apple’s product fails completely.
Just more evidence that….lets say it together…APPLE IS NOT A MONOPOLY.
If it were, you might have a case. But people can easily get inexpensive and “open” options.
But people keep buying iPhones. Guess they must like the product.
This is an example of a bad regulation created with good intentions. As soon as companies started popping up those cookie prompts the EU should have slammed them down with an update to the regulation. The problem wasn't the attempt at regulation (protecting user privacy rights) but in not bothering to respond to the real world consequences of the regulation with better regulation (the regulation should not let companies ask to allow cookies but should just ban them unless the user signs up to the site, of course this would also requiring banning sign up except in cases where it is necessary).
I don't defend billion dollar tech companies, but neither do I or should anyone acquiesce to the EU where the real intention is another attack on our privacy. Basically Apple could do what they like if they let the EU into our devices by throwing up everything to the EU.