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I bet you a tenner Facebook immediately moves out of EU App Store and will be sideload only, with all privacy related permissions required for the app to run.
Sure, I'll take that bet. Can you definite 'immediately'? Would a month suffice?
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That I can just take the SIM out and put it in a different phone? what's the migration process for eSIMs?
Unfortunately, I don't think this is always true for physical SIMs. I recently bought a temporary SIM in the US during my holidays (StraightTalk) and was surprised that you can only use the physical SIM after you register online with you IMEI. I haven't checked, but I imagine that after that the card would only work with that IMEI. Fortunately, I don't think this is a practice in Europe.
I think the central question here is: .) whether you buy a phone as a piece of hardware and then own that hardware - which gives you certain rights regarding the usage of that owned hardware or .) whether you are just paying some sort of admission fee to a tightly controlled service, and are basically "lent" a piece of hardware that you have no ownership rights over. All the other stuff about walled gardens, monopoli…
I think the central question here is: .) whether you buy a phone as a piece of hardware and then own that hardware - which gives you certain rights regarding the usage of that owned hardware or .) whether you are just paying some sort of admission fee to a tightly controlled service, and are basically "lent" a piece of hardware that you have no ownership rights over. All the other stuff about walled gardens, monopoli…
As far as I'm concerned if you 'bought' something, it should be yours to do as you please, including reselling and destroying it. If you didn't buy something, but rented it - for example a game on Steam or Epic Games store - then it should damned say so. It's a straight up lie to say you purchased something if you didn't.
I wonder if they considered an "iPhone Europe Edition" - USB-C, side loading, physical SIM cards. Sounds like a good phone!
What’s good about physical SIMs? I do like apple for daring to improve the status quo there, so I want my European Edition with only e-simsz
https://support.apple.com/en-hk/HT209086
Personally I'd love for eSIM to be there in ADDITION but not replacing the nano SIMs.
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So take five minutes to set up the parental controls on your children's devices. The idea that we should eliminate the ability to run arbitrary software "for the children" is completely ridiculous.
Then don’t buy an iPhone. I think it’s ridiculous that we are asking the government to save us from our own choices. As much as you and I don’t like it, what Apple is doing is perfectly legal. And as much as you or I might support a change in the law, you’re not going to get my support if the legislation is truly universal and not just a narrow-band targeting of a single company for developing an ecosystem which reso…
> what Apple is doing is perfectly legal
Not in the EU starting this summer!
Although I agree with the second point: game consoles being general purpose computers should be treated the same.
I am looking forward! I tried side loading the YouTube with sponsorblock and adblock, which worked but renewing the apps weekly is too much effort.
YouTube Premium is a pretty good deal and actually pays the creators when you watch their videos.
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iPhones been hacked for ages already.
Perhaps "has it ever been hacked" is not the best metric, unless you prefer to keep your devices under armed guard, encased in several meters of concrete, without an internet connection. IMO, https://zerodium.com/program.html is a good indication of "what would it cost to hack me using a never-before-seen exploit".
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Perhaps "has it ever been hacked" is not the best metric, unless you prefer to keep your devices under armed guard, encased in several meters of concrete, without an internet connection. IMO, https://zerodium.com/program.html is a good indication of "what would it cost to hack me using a never-before-seen exploit".
You wrongly assumed that zero days are single-use. Pegasus used the same exploits in dozens or hundreds of targets.
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That I can just take the SIM out and put it in a different phone? what's the migration process for eSIMs?
The migration process is, you ask your carrier for a new eSIM. They send you one via QR code. That's pretty much it.
When your phone breaks, that's not a easy task.