This is easily one of the most expansive Acts regarding computing devices passed in my lifetime. The summary is in the link. As an iPhone user, this will enable me to: * Install any software * Install any App Store and choose to make it default * Use third party payment providers and choose to make them default * Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default * User any browser and browser engine and choose to…
does anyone know when the messaging interoperability comes into force? i am really anxious to have this work finally
You're really anxious to have infinite amounts of spam from bridged messaging services that noone can do anything to stop?
Did Google removed IDFA yet? No. So FB is OK with Android so far.
It's on its way https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/google-plans-android-privacy...
> But while Meta fought against Apple’s changes, it voiced support for the way Google plans to implement its privacy
> “[It is] encouraging to see this long-term, collaborative approach to privacy-protective personalized advertising from Google,” Graham Mudd, vice president of product marketing
Not the same thing, looks like. Facebook likes Google.
This is easily one of the most expansive Acts regarding computing devices passed in my lifetime. The summary is in the link. As an iPhone user, this will enable me to: * Install any software * Install any App Store and choose to make it default * Use third party payment providers and choose to make them default * Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default * User any browser and browser engine and choose to…
This is much more negative then for Apple then google. Google subsidizes their (far less profitable) app ecosystem by selling user data in the form of advertisements. While there is language about Google having to share marketing response rates, it doesn't prohibit this practice. Apple on the other hand makes their money by targeting features (privacy, integration, etc) that people pay more for. Apple will have to tr…
Showing advertisements isn't "selling user data", it's showing ads. Being the company who shows the ads means keeping the targeting data for yourself, which is the opposite of selling it.
“I oppose this legislation that will bring massive good because I can imagine a few edge cases that have almost certainly been addressed but weren’t explicitly stated in the summary I glanced at.” This type of comment is everywhere on the Internet and completely predictable.
Frankly I don’t see how this legislation could possibly bring massive good. For one I like my iPhone how it is and don’t see how I could possibly benefit from this passing. As an American I think regulation should only be enacted when absolutely necessary, and these laws seem anything but necessary. I’ve rarely seen convincing cases of innovation being stifled or people being harmed by Apple’s walled garden approach.…
Apple, Google, Microsoft, constantly buy, "sponsor" or sue competitors (whatever is cheapest) in order to keep their monopoly. All innovation is killed or at best assimilated (Star Trek Borg style). It's a bit funny that we ended up with two major platforms for smartphones... Microsoft did have a good grip on the smartphone market before Apple and Google entered, but they couldn't simply buy Apple or Google in order to keep their monopoly, nor can Google buy Apple or vice versa. But they can kill anyone else that tries to innovate.
Retaliate for what? There are zero rules and regulations in the US concerning these big behemoths. Those senate hearings are just laughingstock kinda theatricals.Just watch back the Microsoft Antitrust Depositions with Bill Gates.
"No vehicle from an auto manufacturer with annual global revenue exceeding $150B USD is eligible for EV credits unless they also offer a hybrid or electric vehicle with MSRP $27000 or less." Oh, only the European VW and Daimler would be impacted? Such a shame.
Well that is a possibility.
There is a crucial difference. Unlike Google and Apple the German Autos employ a lot of Americans and pay quite some taxes in America (sometimes in structurally weak places). That gives them more leverage than their Digital counterparts.
Of course they are not doing that because they are more moral but because their products are bulky and need to be built locally.
This is easily one of the most expansive Acts regarding computing devices passed in my lifetime. The summary is in the link. As an iPhone user, this will enable me to: * Install any software * Install any App Store and choose to make it default * Use third party payment providers and choose to make them default * Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default * User any browser and browser engine and choose to…
Europe’s requirement of those pesky cookie notices have killed the joy of surfing the net. Every goddamn site has this stupid cookie popup show up. It is like playing whack-a-mole. They should have instead only allow necessary cookies and marketing and other cookies should be part of signing up for a specific service and not just visiting the website. The thought is noble but the implementation sucks.
This is easily one of the most expansive Acts regarding computing devices passed in my lifetime. The summary is in the link. As an iPhone user, this will enable me to: * Install any software * Install any App Store and choose to make it default * Use third party payment providers and choose to make them default * Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default * User any browser and browser engine and choose to…
And for privacy conscious users and other business competitors: > But they can no longer reuse private data collected during a service for the purposes of another service. I hope this is applied retrospectively (for even data gathered before the DMA was legislated and came into effect).
While I am in the camp of apple allowing side-loading, i am not a fan of monopolistic regulations like this. It opens all kind of questions, like 1. What devices have to comply? 2. Who decides what device has to comply? Should playstation open their system too. What about a niche bank transaction signing device that internally uses an android capable hardware. Is this illegal now? 3. What about a car infotainment sys…
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I've been seeing more of these comments on HN lately. This is snarky
This is easily one of the most expansive Acts regarding computing devices passed in my lifetime. The summary is in the link. As an iPhone user, this will enable me to: * Install any software * Install any App Store and choose to make it default * Use third party payment providers and choose to make them default * Use any voice assistant and choose to make it default * User any browser and browser engine and choose to…
I am still excited about Apple's answer to this. They have been extremely creative so far in mitigating rules. I believe that they will find a way to somehow undermine these rulings. EU hasn't won yet.
I assume Apple will just release special unlocked phones that only work in the EU (only support EU carriers, only support EU cell frequencies, etc)