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New EU Law Could Force Apple to Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability
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How does big tech dominate your life? It certainly doesn't mine. I have an iPhone and several other Apple devices, but they don't dominate my life. A government that controls what kind of connector you can have on a power cable and one up, that sounds more like something dominating your life.
I can’t even choose where to get software from on my phone. It’s the iOS App Store or nothing.
OMG that must be just devastating. How do you survive? I thought you were maybe dominated by some criminal gang and forced to work for no pay for them or even as a sex worker or something. Never imaged that it was worse that that, you could only download an app for your Apple phone from the Apple App store. Must be hard to sleep at night.
Apple execs have said multiple times they are not happy with MacOS security. But somethings are beyond their control.
This forum wants Apple to operate like Android and yet still keep buying iPhones.
I’m not sure you get how a shake down works. Apple isn’t threatening to break developers legs when they don’t buy protection from them.
Steve never wanted a third party App Store for exactly this reason. Apple is going to lose control over their own product.
That’s freaking hilarious. So they can’t take commissions at all but I’m guessing you want them to pay to maintain and facilitate app sales for developers to keep making their commissions free income?
Lol Linux has low market share because the product sucks for 99% of people.
i dont want to defend apple. im with EU and every law AGAINST apple. however main problem is that most critical apps like those involving money are fully functional only on phones. Pc its abandoned by every bank and i find this very stupid. Nowaday u can't make a money transfer using only a pc, as u must always confirm operations with something on the phone (app, or sms code). While u can do the same transfer by using phone alone. Basically, a device that u bring with u everytime and everywhere its capable to do everything, while a pc, that stays in a locked home cant do nothing. this is the reason, i think, its better to have a safe phone than a safe pc... unless something changes in this crazy world, but i doubt it...
Can’t wait to have my private iMessage conversations scraped by friends that unwittingly use Meta apps.
I dunno what crap bank you use, but I do transfers with mine every month using my computer. No phone required.
My bank is USAA.
The Mac is as safe as it can be but on more than one occasion Apple executives have recently said the Mac is not as safe as iOS, but the use cases are different and the expectations of privacy are greater in mobile.
If USAA is not using multi device authentication it is the crap bank.
Because this is a legacy system. Macs are not as safe and is not tethered to you all day and at constant threat from attacks in the wild or simple theft. Someone snatching your phone mid sentence to gain access to it
It's as if you don't know that things have degrees. Apple will tell you MacOS is secure (as desktop OS's go), but that iOS/iPadOS is more secure. So this change, though it would be good for me personally, would in turn make iOS/iPadOS less secure.
Lol what? The wealthiest continent? Based on what? Not on GDP. Europe is third. Highest quality of life in all rankings? What rankings are you referring to?
A crap bank is one that requires a phone to transfer money.
Apple chose to move the iPad to usb-c prior to this law and I think the only reason the iPhone doesn’t use it is because they wanted to avoid the ensuing tsunami of complaints about 3rd party devices no longer working due to them using the lightning port. Which is compounded by the fact they are probably only a couple of generations away from a portless device where now they will have to repeat the cycle of complaints again when the phone doesn’t have usb-c. Go EU. Your law will most likely be outdated before it even goes into effect.
Wow, the Eu is so ewww these days..what is up with the Non laissez-faire approach. Weren’t they the one who invented that? Stop with the forcing..it’s idiocy.