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EDIT: I get what people are saying about the App Store fees but reputational damage does cost money, possibly quite a lot.
In terms of camera quality, battery life, or any single criterion it’s not like apple devices are the best anyway.
As a side note - I really don’t understand the logic that leaves gaming consoles exempt.
As a second side note - how is apple even determining if you are an EU citizen or in an EU country? Presumably GPS, but is the implication that EU users must phone home to apple every 30 days?
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Apple says you must be physically located in an EU country to be eligible, as determined by your device, so presumably they are checking GPS and/or cellular location data rather than just IP geolocation.
Even if on-device location is disabled?
Apple beeing evil. I hope they get fined by the EU.
As someone who used to be in the field of public relations before starting a career in software - I don't understand why they are doing this. Surely they realise that this stuff is going to end up on mainstream media and damage their image? EDIT: I get what people are saying about the App Store fees but reputational damage does cost money, possibly quite a lot.
As someone who used to be in the field of public relations before starting a career in software - I don't understand why they are doing this. Surely they realise that this stuff is going to end up on mainstream media and damage their image? EDIT: I get what people are saying about the App Store fees but reputational damage does cost money, possibly quite a lot.
I think this third party appstore is an existential threat to apple in the sense that no one jailbreaks there iphone, because they need legit apps, but if the EU allows third party apps stores, then Americans could start jailbreaking their phones and just using third party app stores.
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Even if on-device location is disabled?
In that case they'll probably either (a) ignore your setting and check anyway because the OS can do whatever it wants, or (b) default to "not EU" mode until you agree to turn location services on. They're not going to give you an easy workaround, Apple has made it clear they're going to do the bare minimum they can get away with.