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The edict was intentionally vague and overbroad. It’s a law that establishes no measurable compliance guidelines, while providing absolutely no limitations on what the EU can decid…

I’m struggling to understand why controversial blog entries and erotic fiction need a secure machine.

Meanwhile, my company halved our sick time a couple of years ago, and just last week announced that they were eliminating dedicated sick time entirely starting the first of next ye…

Uh, Hypervisor still exists, and is still supported: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor

I still use Reddit, but I gave up on productively contributing to it. The only account I use now is purely for NSFW reddits, which Reddit will not display advertising for, and I do…

> Where actually they are a full monopoly in the App Store market. They do, they absolutely do. What’s worse, it turns out they have a full monopoly in MacBooks, computers running …

No, they want installs on-demand once you select the browser, which ties into a subsequent demand that browsers be able to be downloaded directly from the source or an alternative …

> Because the only reason I can think of is whining about not being the default. That is exactly the reason. The charitable reason is so that the browser, upon launch, can ask the …

> All of these need to get broken up until we have at least a half-dozen competing companies in those spaces. You seem to be forgetting, we had your “at least a half-dozen competin…

> Why not just let people do what they do with other files and leave it on their desktop. Once upon a time, upon seeing a disk image open with an app icon, a certain quantity of pe…

Why stop at protecting kids when you can force your morals on adults at the same time? Spain knows it’s never going to stop people from looking at porn, but if you can essentially …

It’s being done in response to Elon Musk being caught liking some questionable things. Now people (e.g., Musk) can like anti-Semitic and pro-white supremacy and pro-Nazi content al…

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Apple is often “behind” because it believes that generally, technological advancements are subordinate to product function and user benefit. It generally doesn’t do something just …

So it’s pragmatic to publicly advocate one position and then privately advocate another? Isn’t that what Google is doing here, publicly advocating one position (Epic are a bunch of…

> It's not wrong for Epic to support changes that also happen to benefit everyone while also prioritizing their own goals. No, but it’s wrong for Epic to position those changes as …

No it doesn't, but leading up to the trial, Epic generally and Sweeney specifically made a _huge_ PR push that he was waging this battle on Apple (and Google) on behalf of all deve…

> Epic is accusing Google (and Apple) of being monopolies since it wants to play in the app store space. I think that’s a secondary effect. The primary reason is so Epic gets to ke…

Putting aside the bugginess of the existing software, this litany of complaints mostly boils down to, “I wish Apple would make the macOS equivalent to the Microsoft Surface.” This …

Good. The only downside that I can see to this settlement is that it isn’t able to set a legal precedent.

So does that mean that if Firefox or Safari don’t implement something, but it exists in a polyfill, that Firefox or Safari should be treated as if it has been implemented natively?…

While Chrome _does_ respect existing standards, sometimes to the point of pedantry, it also happily rolls out designed-for-our-needs web technologies and APIs into its majority-sha…

> I wish there were a setting to never use an in app web browser on iOS. I get that, but by the same token, a thoughtful app maker can provide that option to you today (I have apps…

> Apple must update SFSafariViewController (Apple’s system provided in-app browser for iOS) to respect the user's choice of default browser. I don’t understand this ask. If the ide…