Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
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#3These issues need good unbiased reporting, and as much as I love Cory, his reporting is all but unbiased. It's activism.
Which is perfectly ok, and extremely important, but in this case it reeks of an extremism that is damaging to the cause itself.
The truth is that decrying things like Apple's splash screen about the use of alternative stores, for example, is ridiculous. Apple has all the legal rights to do that, and formally that is not even incorrect. I personally don't let tech unsavvy people from the family use anything but the App Store and iPhone. Not because we couldn't find better Android phones for the same price, but because I know they would be easily scammed by shady apps that don't have to pass through the App Store's review process.
That is clearly a monopolistic advantage to Apple, but the alternative is equally bad and, admittedly, even worse for less tech savvy users, which are the majority.
Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
#4These issues need good unbiased reporting, and as much as I love Cory, his reporting is all but unbiased. It's activism. Which is perfectly ok, and extremely important, but in this case it reeks of an extremism that is damaging to the cause itself. The truth is that decrying things like Apple's splash screen about the use of alternative stores, for example, is ridiculous. Apple has all the legal rights to do that, an…
So more options are bad, because people might make choices that they don't understand? Is this the invisible hand of the market that people have been wanging on about for the past dekades?
Or is this new-found worry about people choosing wrong things something that is only limited to Apple? Because I could imagine other, worse markets with much more impact on people that are less regulated (e.g. food).
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#5How unkind!
Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
#6These issues need good unbiased reporting, and as much as I love Cory, his reporting is all but unbiased. It's activism. Which is perfectly ok, and extremely important, but in this case it reeks of an extremism that is damaging to the cause itself. The truth is that decrying things like Apple's splash screen about the use of alternative stores, for example, is ridiculous. Apple has all the legal rights to do that, an…
I can't see how you would interpret Apple's "compliance" other than contempt, no matter how unbiaised you try to be. Even Apple's own press releases aren't even trying to hide that.
Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
#7These issues need good unbiased reporting, and as much as I love Cory, his reporting is all but unbiased. It's activism. Which is perfectly ok, and extremely important, but in this case it reeks of an extremism that is damaging to the cause itself. The truth is that decrying things like Apple's splash screen about the use of alternative stores, for example, is ridiculous. Apple has all the legal rights to do that, an…
> Apple has all the legal rights to do that
They should not. Mobile computing is as fundamentally important as the right to free speech. They're taking over access to every part of life and are more important than cash. Two trillion dollar companies should not be allowed to gatekeep belonging to modern society.
> even worse for less tech savvy users, which are the majority.
We let people drive multi-ton vehicles with little training at 80mph. I think they'll be fine with web downloads.
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#8Paraphrasing
Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"
#9These issues need good unbiased reporting, and as much as I love Cory, his reporting is all but unbiased. It's activism. Which is perfectly ok, and extremely important, but in this case it reeks of an extremism that is damaging to the cause itself. The truth is that decrying things like Apple's splash screen about the use of alternative stores, for example, is ridiculous. Apple has all the legal rights to do that, an…
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#10I don't think I agree with all of his points but I do agree with his point that other countries outside the EU will try to persuade Apple that they want Apple to play by those rules. They'll be under a lot of pressure to roll out what they do there elsewhere. And the argument that they can't goes away the second they show that they can in the EU.
And of course everybody forgets about the Chinese market where Apple has been playing by Chinese rules for many years (which isn't great for privacy, obviously). So that's three separate markets where they are treating users very differently.