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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by Tempest1981 »

echelon wrote: post #7
camillomiller wrote: post #3

These 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…

> multi-ton vehicles with little training at 80mph. I think they'll be fine with web downloads.

I wish this were true, but in my experience, it's a very different skill than driving.

Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by wkat4242 »

I'm liking this guy even more every time. I agree with him so much and his enshittification term really hit the nail on the head.

Also really like that he hosts his blog on his own site so I don't have to go to that terrible crap that medium is to read it.

Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by wkat4242 »

camillomiller wrote: post #3

These 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…

It's not reporting, it's a personal blog. It's an opinion piece. Activism is definitely ok there in my book, and it's clearly needed considering how this situation is getting out of hand.

Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by southerntofu »

camillomiller wrote: post #3

These 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 know they would be easily scammed by shady apps that don't have to pass through the App Store's review process.

My entire family uses F-Droid on ungoogled Androids. They have much less chances to be scammed/exploited because F-Droid is community-run and is explicit about anti-features in the store UI. There just isn't any malware/scam on F-Droid to be scammed with, because the community decides what apps to add and the community server builds them.

Pretending There Is No Alternative ® to Apple monopolistic practices is misleading to say the least.

Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by tuyiown »

southerntofu wrote: post #14
camillomiller wrote: post #3

These 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 know they would be easily scammed by shady apps that don't have to pass through the App Store's review process. My entire family uses F-Droid on ungoogled Androids. They have much less chances to be scammed/exploited because F-Droid is community-run and is explicit about anti-features in the store UI. There just isn't any malware/scam on F-Droid to be scammed with, because the community decides what apps to add a…

> They have much less chances to be scammed/exploited because F-Droid is community-run and is explicit about anti-features in the store UI.

That, but also because it's a niche that has not been targeted by malevolence. Enjoy it while it last.

Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by shmerl »

> For one thing, Apple will only allow European customers to run alternative browser engines

This is idiotic beyond measure, but so Apple, trying to claw every inch of monopolistic abuse as long as they can get away with it. They should be punished with fines in billions for this. May be that will teach them a thing or two.

Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by adastra22 »

Apple's European revenue for the App Store is only 7% of its global App Store receipts. At some point apple will just leave the market.

The EU is a bit bonkers to think that it can get global tech companies to comply with increasingly tech-hostile regulations without any push back or red lines. At some point it just stops being worth the hassle.

Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by esarbe »

adastra22 wrote: post #17

Apple's European revenue for the App Store is only 7% of its global App Store receipts. At some point apple will just leave the market. The EU is a bit bonkers to think that it can get global tech companies to comply with increasingly tech-hostile regulations without any push back or red lines. At some point it just stops being worth the hassle.

I'm looking forward to Apple leaving Europe.

Good riddance.

Re: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself"

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Post by 5350-uiop-1130 »

adastra22 wrote: post #17

Apple's European revenue for the App Store is only 7% of its global App Store receipts. At some point apple will just leave the market. The EU is a bit bonkers to think that it can get global tech companies to comply with increasingly tech-hostile regulations without any push back or red lines. At some point it just stops being worth the hassle.

> At some point apple will just leave the market.

maybe a good thing. yanis varoufakis said EU had become irrelevant in tech.

more investment can go to local tech instead of US monopolies.

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