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I’m waiting for the EU to eventually say “Ok nevermind, this is clearly a company that isn’t going to be compliant. If not compliant by X date this company will no longer be allowed to operate here”
Or a hella massive fine for blatant waste of regulators time plus non-compliance.
That’s not happening.
I’ve been saying for the past two years that Apple should stop doing business in the EU, but every time that I bring that up someone points out the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out.
Gross.
Apple doesn’t buy those machines, TSMC does. Apple buys the chips from them.
So I don’t think ASML being in the EU would stop apple from pulling out.
Why should Apple stop doing business in the EU that makes no sense. Why would they deliberately cut themselves off from a huge potential market.
Governments are going about this the wrong way. The problem isn’t with app stores. The problem is that you can’t install a different OS on your phone (or current Mac, or iPad).
The problem is that the stock OS is a walled garden. No common user will flash their phone.
I have an idea - make this issue solved via direct popular vote. Ranked choice, variants range from “Apple owns your butts” to “Apple should be punished with its monthly margin for failing to deliver hourly orgasms with its devices” to “Apple open sources and PD’s everything or Apple leaves”.
They’ll be interested themselves in making the OS as convenient for normal usage as possible. Including the walled garden part. OK, just a thought experiment.
On machines where it’s trivial to do so (such as pcs), how many real life users (as opposed to forum haunting online geeks) will install another os?
How many real life users are going to install software from somewhere other than the built in app store on their phone?
-WhatsApp is now exclusive to the Meta iOS App Store.-
That many real life users.
It’s not so trivial, different BIOS’es have different hotkeys to enter setup, different functionality, and device drivers are usually provided certainly only for the main OS.
Perhaps legal obligation to provide proper datasheets (easy to do, ye-es? they already certainly have those, ye-es, otherwise how did they make that Windblows\MockOS driver?) for device manufacturers and sellers (cause I the customer shouldn’t care to look for them, everything should be in the box in paper form ; just like all other schematics, if in 1970s you’d tell someone that a complex expensive machine is sold to customers without schematics, people wouldn’t believe you, they’d say you’re nuts, they’d ask where the regulators are sleeping, and they’d wonder how it’s possible to operate a device without schematics), and obligation to not employ various technologies to prevent replacement of onboard devices and loading of unsigned drivers, should exist.
The best part about all this is that such a law could be written so that it equally well applies to a 1970s machine, a today’s machine and whatever they’ll come up with in year 2066.
Around 5%
It’s not that trivial
TBH Mac’s bootloader is pretty open so you can install whatever. There’s a nice distro named Asahi which you can spin up in like 5 minutes.
Why not both?
RtJ called it out years ago:
- Lie
- Cheat
- Steal
- Kill
- Win
(everybody’s doin’ it)
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Exactly what I was thinking.
Apple is a piece of shit company standing in the shadow of its past self.
Just let people sideload without a time limit, for fuck’s sake…
I don’t know. I understand some good devs are paying the price, but…
Here in US apps are allowed to external links. Before I was opening and app, subscribing and canceling in the seam month if I wanted
Now DAZN (sport streaming) is forcing users to give 30 days notice. So if you use for a day. You need to pay 2 months.
I would prefer to pay 30% more than 100% more to use DAZN for a single month.
Oh the Trump playbook.
