It’s like I’m living in some bizarro world reading these comments that are biasly ignoring the fact that Apple keeps MacOS secure while allowing other app stores and applications to be installed w/o their permission.
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New EU Law Could Force Apple to Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability
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or as folks who been saying choose another platform if you don't like it, choose another app if that app you are using requires sideloading.
LOL, take note developers - you're paying 30% for your own protection. Just like the mob.
It’s always the “don’t like it, leave” with those people, yet now that is affects them it’s “please don’t do this, blah blah blah”.
Not a lot of people would bat an eye. Most people here use WhatsApp.
It's Apple that would lose a selling point.
Regardless of the opening up part, what's to stop it from becoming download xyz store for xyz app, dozens of stores popping up will be like streaming services or worse, News+... So many news outlets charge their own subscription and don't play ball with News+.
Anytime a Government uses the word fair, a disaster is coming.
Apple is a trillion dollar company and people still want to carry water for them.
product that lacks innovation and delays are in no way related to eu forcing companies to open up their walled garden.
This is good news for all of us. We do not benefit when Apple is allowed to operate as a monopoly.
You mean the same country (USA) currently investigating Apple for antitrust violations?
How do you install applications not utilizing the AppStore on your 14" MacBook Pro M1 Pro 1TB 16GB (2021)?
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The EU is going beyond their limit.
soon they will rule on the kind and size of bun to use on a burger.
soon they will rule on the kind and size of bun to use on a burger.
Corporate simps aside, this move is good for consumers.
I feel like this was always inevitable, and I feel like Apple knew it this whole time. Also feel like they've been prepping for it, and as soon as it's real and they have to allow third-party app stores... the App Store will launch on Android. It's gonna be weird times ahead.
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That’s why I used the words like “I feel like” sheeeesh. It was just a thought 💭 😒
The EU is what the US used to be. Securing freedom for its people. This is really the only "country" you can rely on at the moment, globally speaking.
Yes that is what is being said. The idea of the phone is minimized tech and enhanced user experience. iOS, the opposite of android.
So if the phone gets hacked you will never know it.
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Holy Hell
I thought I’ve seen it all.
Ladies and gentlemen, here is a post twisting themselves into a pretzel trying to make up why Apple products were lackluster this quarter for a decision that not only isn’t signed into law, but is years away from being in forced even if it became a law today.
hahahhahahaha
The U.S. has had antitrust laws for a hundred years that have kneecapped American companies like IBM and AT&T.
I think the EU should drop this idea if Apple agrees to perpetually take no commission for app sales, IAP, developer accounts, unwind iAds, and stop pre-installing their services apps (Music, TV, Fitness+).
This way Apple can decide whether profit or platform integrity is the thing they care about.
This way Apple can decide whether profit or platform integrity is the thing they care about.
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Hahaha nice post 😂. So, you are saying USB-C is years away? Thus we have it on iPads and other Apple products for years now.
Apple can technically wait until 2025 to release an iPhone with USB-C if they want, as long as the 2024 one is released before the deadline [grandfathered in].
But way to deflect your post. Doesn’t work on me.
Keep getting this same tired argument over and over again. It will be software companies forcing people to use other stores, by only offering their apps there, so they can ignore Apple’s safeguards, or get more money (you… you don’t actually expect they’re going to lower their prices, do you?).
Emulators on Cydia.🥳🥳🥳
Too bad you still need to jailbreak to gain root access for the firewall app on Cydia to work.😒
Too bad you still need to jailbreak to gain root access for the firewall app on Cydia to work.😒