To me, this isn't the issue. The issue is this should be Apple's decision (or any other company's decision), not the decision of any political body.
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New EU Law Could Force Apple to Allow Other App Stores, Sideloading, and iMessage Interoperability
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To me, this isn't the issue. The issue is this should be Apple's decision (or any other company's decision), not the decision of any political body.
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I'm going to send EU this Dongle Bingo and see what they will do with it.
This exactly, there are some really naive people out there.
They are not really free. At the moment they can only choose between two evils: Apple, which treats them like kids who need strict rules on what they can do and what not and Google, which collects enormous amounts of private data from its users even if they choose the strictest privacy options that Google offers them. That's why we need government to regulate both Apple and Google. Apple needs to finally treat their customers like adults and give them access to nipples and Google needs to stop spying on its customers. Then the choice between to evils could turn into the choice between two good options.
SpaceX will fall under the gatekeeper rules, on both the launch side and the internet side. Interesting how that'll work. So will Boeing and Airbus.
Surely you didn't just compare racial discrimination to restricted app delivery did you? If anything was ever apples and oranges, that is.
Oh but some people would like you to believe that and they're always the same people that think Android phones get a million viruses out of nowhere. It's very convenient of MacRumors to exist for us to be able to find these people.
iMessage is often barely interoperable with itself. So many syncing issues it’s unreal, and if you use a wired internet connection on your iPad then forget about it. Better off with two cups and a piece of string. The chance of Apple even having the ability to make it work across entirely different systems is roughly zero.
Imagine you have cancer and the drugs that can save you are only produced by two companies. Then you will be really happy if those companies are regulated.
do you not understand that some people bought apple exactly for its walled garden YOU are removing that choice
Bad news for all the fans of trillion dollar monopolies on this site. :’(
Yeah like also I am a gay man and idc personally if a bakery won’t bake my gay wedding cake. I can just move along and give a different bakery my business or make it myself if I have to. It’s, like, the free market, man. But still, likening side-loading legislation to discrimination based on race or anything else just seems kinda…weird….
It's never going to stop not that the precedent has been set.
Android isn't one choice. It's multiple OSs from multiple manufacturers on multiple hardware designs with multiple app stores and multiple features. But we've already had this conversation before. Feel free to read through our previous conversation to avoid going around in circles again!
What android has taught us is that despite all of those choices, almost all consumers prefer to get their apps from a single app store. With just a small percentage that bother with sideloading or alternative app stores.
Same old argument that's been refuted a number of times in this thread already. Again, it's both taking away choices and adding different choices. Some of us prefer the benefits of a single app store.
The job of the government is to regulate... without them, everything would be up to the companies.
This is absolutely within the purview of the government, and it absolutely shouldn't be Apple's choice because we already know they wouldn't comply because they want to monopolize the App Store rather than allow proper competition to it.
just stop selling in Europe. force them to buy from somewhere else
Sure they are free to leave. They can use Google. Again, no one is forced to use Apple's products.
Of course, you gave the valid reasons not to use Google, but still, Google and their hardware/software products do exist.
Also, your entire diatribe about Google makes no sense when you consider that many people using Apple's platforms willingly use Google products on those platforms.
I will concede that having an duolopy for tech is not the best, but market forces worldwide have spoken loud and clear: it is either Google or Apple.
It already does happen on Windows and Macs. Hence the tremendous cost of malware.
Great. So just have us do the same song and dance macOS makes us do when you install an app from a non-recognized source. This all already exists. Glad to see your main interest is with keeping apple safe. 🙄
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Force them to buy in Turkey or Brazil 😕
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I hope that Apple provides a way to turn off all the interoperability that the EU wants to force upon everyone.
I don't WANT messages from people using WhatsApp, Telegram and whatever else is out there. I get enough spam as it is.
I don't WANT messages from people using WhatsApp, Telegram and whatever else is out there. I get enough spam as it is.
You’re missing the point.
Obviously Apple would not do this voluntarily, because it doesn’t benefit them.
My problem with Apple being forced to do it is that what else could they be forced to do?
It is all nice when governments force Apple to do something that we want, but it sets a dangerous precedent. What if the next thing the EU wants is to put a back door into Apple’s OS.