We will soon have US/ROW Tech - EU Tech - and Chinese Tech. Some countries will align with one or the other, a few might pick 2 of the 3.
But worldwide tech is dying
iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
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Re: iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
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It's akin to physical autonomy meaning you can't trespass. > A completely meaningless and self-defeating argument. Your example is literally true: in Texas you have the right to kill someone entering your home without permission. So far from being "meaningless and self-defeating", it's reality. Just like you can't walk on my property without my permission, you can't speak on my property without my permission, includi…
The right to kick someone off of your property is not the right to silence someone's speech, that is utterly ridiculous framing.
Who cares about the framing, both are legal facts, yet you're unable to comprehend or accept that.
Re: iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
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I actually have a problem with this. I want AirPods to be undeniably the best experience for me because I am fully locked into the Apple ecosystem, and I know many folks have complaints against that. I find it to be rather pleasurable to use compared to all the other alternatives out there. So if I have to start sacrificing my experience in favor of universal support, that really sucks.
But this isn't sacrificing your experience, you're free to keep using your Apple AirPods with the quality and reliability you'd expect from Apple. This just means other brands can create products with similar features to AirPods, and if they're not as good or reliable, well that's why you're paying Apple for theirs.
The best code is no code. Every line of extra code added, and every extra platform supported is potential for more bugs, which has the potential to affect my user experience.
Re: iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
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I haven’t heard anyone make any of those claims in the way you’ve made them. Conversely, the inference you leave readers with from your description of Apple’s contribution to USB-C and CPU design is just as untrue.
>>your description of Apple’s contribution to USB-C and CPU design is just as untrue. Not my description. Or you mean Gruber's description of Apple's contribution. His post on USB-C, CPU Design and AirPod is still Up on his site. Those who actually worked on USB-C before it was even known also posted on HN.
I haven’t heard Gruber make any of those claims in the way you’ve made them.
Conversely, the inference you leave readers with from your description of Apple’s contribution to USB-C and CPU design is just as untrue.
Re: iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
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Device manufacturers could pay Apple to register their devices to be recognized by the iPhone that they know how to use the advanced features it is capable of, for example. Also, device manufacturers can create apps for their devices and trigger those apps when a device is close by. I am against the idea of having a company spend resources on designing and implementing features for its devices and then being forced t…
> Device manufacturers could pay Apple to register their devices to be recognized by the iPhone that they know how to use the advanced features it is capable of, for example. Maybe if Apple actually offered that at a reasonable price, and to be clear they have never offered this at any price, the EU wouldn’t have felt compelled to act. AirPods have been around for a decade now, the DSA has been in the works for five…
I am going to comment on the last part of your post: No one is forcing people to buy or use Apple products. You can buy a Pixel, a Samsung or one of the other lesser known Android brands and be on your merry way. And you can buy earbuds for those devices too; Samsung offers their own brand for example.
Re: iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
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This is the future of the internet. More and more countries have their local laws and international companies need to comply with local laws. This has been the case forever for companies selling products and (physical) services and some digital services restricting music and movie rights in certain countries, but it will expand to more and more services and apps in the future.
Good. It was hubris to think that the internet would forever be segregated as an American asset.
I think the EU believes they have more of an effect on the rest of the world than they actually do. Complying with every law in every jurisdiction that has access to a product sounds like a nightmare that will only stifle innovation.
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"plenty of other markets" have way smaller margins and are not nearly as robust an industry as software.
I don't understand. Robust markets don't have large margins. Why would a regulator even want markets with enormous margin? That's usually market failure .
Pharmaceuticals have very large margins.
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Apple market share is 10% in the EU. Hardly a monopoly.
That depends on the interpretation of a market, which is why laws like the DMA establish a market based on its size. In the iOS market, apple have a monopoly. EDIT: Downvotes for what? That’s literally what the DMA is for. If you don’t like it, take it up with your representatives - it’s nothing to do with me.
> In the iOS market, apple have a monopoly.
So if a company creates a widget and sells that widget, thereby creating a market, they are automatically a monopoly? how is anything invented without creating a monopoly?
Also why is it an iOS market and not a mobile phone market? if we compare features of devices then there’s not a lot of difference between modern phones, so segregating them by what OS they run seems odd.
Re: iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually have a problem with this. I want AirPods to be undeniably the best experience for me because I am fully locked into the Apple ecosystem, and I know many folks have complaints against that. I find it to be rather pleasurable to use compared to all the other alternatives out there. So if I have to start sacrificing my experience in favor of universal support, that really sucks.
But this isn't sacrificing your experience, you're free to keep using your Apple AirPods with the quality and reliability you'd expect from Apple. This just means other brands can create products with similar features to AirPods, and if they're not as good or reliable, well that's why you're paying Apple for theirs.
It removes incentives to differentiate a platform because the EU will just come in and make every company exactly the same by forcing others to allow other companies access to their R&D budgets. Why bother? It’s easier to just avoid the EU market
Re: iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
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> If Apple knew they would need to expand this feature past their gear, possible they’d never have implemented. And this is EXACTLY why they need to open up more core access to their devices. So someone else can innovate.
Why they need to be forced to, you mean? I'm not seeing an incentive structure for them to change being the only source of good workflows for their users - it's their whole thing "It just works" - regardless of if it's true in practice or not.
which other company spends as much investing in UX? there is not a single other company on the planet with as polished of a user experience as apple, so who would develop a better workflow?