'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties
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This is very bad. Their walled garden is perfect for the young, elderly, and stupid.
Hopefully some competitor arrives to replace them.
No one is forcing you do use apps outside of the app store. It's about choice.
If such a competitor emerged they'd not be able to trade in the EU, given the size of the EU economy that ain't happening.
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I thought that “walled-garden” was for security and privacy in the case of Apple? I always relied on them for that.
You’re getting downvoted but how much would you like to bet that once the walled garden is down/their party apps can be installed; we’ll suddenly see “security related apps” installed by some EU law.
If I sound paranoid there’s already an app on Android that scans the content of your photo library (iPhones have this too but it’s only enabled during parental controls, Androids is stealth-enabled 24/7).
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I don’t get the argument. It’s not like you are forced to buy iPhones, there a plenty of brands available.
According to recent data iOS is 30% of the market while android is almost 70% (in Europe).
I used android phones for most of my life. I tried to install alternative OS few time but my banking apps all refused to execute. There were always plenty of apps that were forbidden to remove (Facebook, Samsung applications,…). Then 4 years ago I bought an iPhone. No preinstalled shitty news app, Facebook, etc. Was even able to uninstall the default apps that I do not use. I feel to have much more freedom than before. Apple is not perfect by any means but it’s far from being a prison.Vertical integration is bad, m'kay?
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I have no doubt the EU won't have much mercy for American corporations going* forward.
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There is a ton of fanboyism around Apple, same as there was for Musk some years ago.
I love brand is just another form of tribalism and one that Apple cultivated for decades.
(Curiously, going down the thread I saw fewer Apple fanboys that one would find in, say, Reddit)
Reddit doesn't seem to have a lot of those either, maybe in those apple specific subs, but people prefer android and pc
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You’re getting downvoted but how much would you like to bet that once the walled garden is down/their party apps can be installed; we’ll suddenly see “security related apps” installed by some EU law.
If I sound paranoid there’s already an app on Android that scans the content of your photo library (iPhones have this too but it’s only enabled during parental controls, Androids is stealth-enabled 24/7).
It's called something android core, you can uninstall it, but it may comeback each update.
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I have no doubt the EU won't have much mercy for American corporations going* forward.
My phone REALLY wants me to type gong. Gong gong gong gong gong.
bro be like
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Not the biggest fan of this tbh. People who want open standards should just not buy iOS devices. It's not that hard.
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You can certainly argue that more control makes iPhones safer, since its harder to get malicious software on the phone. But Apple is also abusing their control for their own gain.
You could also argue that locking you in a room would be safer than letting you walk freely out in the world. But I don't we want that either.
I dunno, are meals provided in the locked room? The world is a pretty fucking awful place right now.
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as long as you don't want to do some crazy unthinkable thing, like, say, getting notifications on your smartwatch that isn't made by Apple
I'm having trouble conceptualizing the words you just used, in my brain.
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There is a ton of fanboyism around Apple, same as there was for Musk some years ago.
I love brand is just another form of tribalism and one that Apple cultivated for decades.
(Curiously, going down the thread I saw fewer Apple fanboys that one would find in, say, Reddit)
Can you provide a single real life example of an apple "fanboy" that you have encountered?
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GrapheneOS is how Android should be, but its a solitary experience versus iOS, which harnesses the interplay with other apple devices.
Would grapheneOS work well on a Boox Tab Ultra C?
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Not the biggest fan of this tbh. People who want open standards should just not buy iOS devices. It's not that hard.
Oh no, not more freedom and rights, please no!
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Not the biggest fan of this tbh. People who want open standards should just not buy iOS devices. It's not that hard.
Companies that do anti-consumer practices shouldn't think it's the norm. The more we fuck Apple, the less other companies think that it's OK to fuck consumers.
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I don’t get the argument. It’s not like you are forced to buy iPhones, there a plenty of brands available.
According to recent data iOS is 30% of the market while android is almost 70% (in Europe).
I used android phones for most of my life. I tried to install alternative OS few time but my banking apps all refused to execute. There were always plenty of apps that were forbidden to remove (Facebook, Samsung applications,…). Then 4 years ago I bought an iPhone. No preinstalled shitty news app, Facebook, etc. Was even able to uninstall the default apps that I do not use. I feel to have much more freedom than before. Apple is not perfect by any means but it’s far from being a prison. -
Can you provide a single real life example of an apple "fanboy" that you have encountered?
The obvious Apple fanboy is the kind of person who sings praises to every single new version of every Apple product even when it barelly differs from the last one, never criticizes their products and goes to a queue outside an Apple store the evening of the day before a new release of an Apple product to be one of the first to buy it next morning when the store opens.
(Granted, they were more common a decade or so ago)
Every single person here doggedly defending Apple's choice whose argument boils down to "it's fine it's as I like it" (whilst ignoring that everybody else has their own likes and dislikes) to justify Apple only having a closed-down environment without an open environment as another option, is probably a fanboy.
"I love it the way it is" isn't logical, it's emotional, and there really isn't a natural human tendency (in most people) to want to have their choices taken away, so something else is at play when somebody defends nobody having any options with Apple other than Apple, with the argument that "I like it like that", since logically, having the option of an open system won't take away the option of the closed system for those who like it.
That said, an alternative explanation for such behaviour is that they're just self-centred people who are extremely used to a specific environment and couldn't imagine why anybody would want it to be different, a posture which is often associated with fanboyism of the brand which makes that environment, but not always.
Also another explanation is paid sockpuppet.
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Oh no, not more freedom and rights, please no!
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Oh no, not more freedom and rights, please no!
I'm not affected by this in the slightest, and I do not think people that buy iOS devices will care about their newfound freedom
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Companies that do anti-consumer practices shouldn't think it's the norm. The more we fuck Apple, the less other companies think that it's OK to fuck consumers.
Companies that do anti-consumer practices shouldn't think it's the norm
Yes, and they would know if people would start voting with their wallets.
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Companies that do anti-consumer practices shouldn't think it's the norm
Yes, and they would know if people would start voting with their wallets.
Voting with the wallet is mostly bullshit, it's a myth corpos are telling people so we regulate them less. They have so much power to inject themselves into human's lives, make themselves part of your existence. You can for example try to walletvote Microsoft out of your life whatever the fuck you want, while you were trying it, they bought a politician or twelve, and now they're part of your government, your education system, your military, and your finance sector.
While democracy still exists, the only way to fight corpos is the governmental power or regulations.
