Europe is not alone... The USA are just a bit slower with everything... https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2024/us-files-landmark-antitrust-suit-against-apple.html
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Apple Challenges EU Digital Markets Act Over Feature Delays
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I’m a bit surprised they mention pornography apps… when you have all the porn available on the web through your browser. Maybe they are considering iPhones with porn websites restricted by parents? Or maybe they consider those iPhones have Safari disabled (I don’t know if that’s possible)…
Anyway, the easiest way to control your child’s access to porn, is by gatekeeping their access to the internet: put a family computer on the living room, and let them use it with your supervision. Otherwise, you’re granting them a secret door to all the internet content (both the formal and the nasty one) for them to carry it in their pocket, to access wherever they want, whenever they want, and share it with whoever they want (which will probably also be other children).
Let us adults use our devices as adults.
By the way, as an open minded adult, I have a question: do you know if anyone can develop and publish on the Apple’s App Store adult apps such as sexy dices and other erotic apps? With explicit written content of course. My guess is that if they are classified as +18 there shouldn’t be any problem with it.
PS: I didn’t know there were porn apps in the alternative app stores…
Anyway, the easiest way to control your child’s access to porn, is by gatekeeping their access to the internet: put a family computer on the living room, and let them use it with your supervision. Otherwise, you’re granting them a secret door to all the internet content (both the formal and the nasty one) for them to carry it in their pocket, to access wherever they want, whenever they want, and share it with whoever they want (which will probably also be other children).
Let us adults use our devices as adults.
By the way, as an open minded adult, I have a question: do you know if anyone can develop and publish on the Apple’s App Store adult apps such as sexy dices and other erotic apps? With explicit written content of course. My guess is that if they are classified as +18 there shouldn’t be any problem with it.
PS: I didn’t know there were porn apps in the alternative app stores…
Most independent experts think that case will go nowhere because Apple doesn’t meet the definition of monopoly that has been long established in the US.
The specific features Apple is holding back are just those calibrated to create a fuss without driving buyers to the competition. Screen sharing impossible due to DMA? Route finding? Really?
Ultimately it's just a tussle between who is more powerful: Apple (representing 'big tech' generally) or the EU.
I'm actually not sure who will win.
Ultimately it's just a tussle between who is more powerful: Apple (representing 'big tech' generally) or the EU.
I'm actually not sure who will win.
So Apple has to invest time and money developing their operating systems so that third-party manufacturers can experience the same or similar experiences as those provided by Apple's own AirPods, and those third-party manufacturers just get this for free? (Can Apple charge via the MFi program, or is charging for their effort asking too much?)
Should LG be forced to pop up that white box so I can connect my AirPods to my TV and experience the same features that I get with my iPhone?
A set of Bose Bluetooth headphones do not currently have "a much worse experience". They are advertised as doing A, B and C, and they do A, B and C very well. They are Bluetooth headphones that can connect to multiple devices, one of which is an iPhone. AirPods are advertised as doing A, B and C, but they also do X, Y and Z if you have an iPhone. Two Apple products working together; that's all.
What else do the Bose headphones need? Live Translation? That requires trusted hardware that the Bose headphones don't contain. Oh, Bose could add such hardware? Great, so now Apple has to certify that a hundred other manufacturers' chips are compliant.
As I said, not every device needs to contact every other device. They certainly don't need to be doing the same things.
Isn't that a good thing from a consumer perspective? More choice, better experience with accessories.
I fail to see the downside ...
Then you aren't looking closely enough.
When Apple has to support every piece of hardware out there, what is there for Apple to innovate on? They released AirPods, and showed how they work with an iPhone. People buy AirPods because of what they do with the iPhone and the Apple ecosystem - auto-switching to the Mac etc. If Apple has to offer these innovations to every other headphone manufacturer they would have to insist that other manufacturers use specific protocols and hardware, and then what does the market look like? Every set of headphones does exactly the same thing, and no one can stand out.
If one manufacturer tries to introduce an entirely new feature, does Apple have to implement it before that new set of headphones can be released, or can the 'phones be released and people have to wait for Apple to release the software update? How does that reflect on Apple?
Can Apple innovate in their AirPods, invest in a new feature, and release the hardware and software on their own, or do they have to tell the other manufacturers first? Can they release first and then let the others catch up? Apple just does everyone else's R&D now?
If Apple has to certify a ton of chips just so some feature on some other manufacturer's products work properly on an Apple device, what does Apple get out of it? It's not like Windows where Microsoft had to support practically every motherboard and chipset out there so that people could install Windows on their hardware. This would force Apple to spend money on supporting other manufacturers' devices just so those manufacturers can sell more devices.
No one is going to buy an iPhone because their Sony headphones would work fully with it. People buy iPhones for various reasons, but they currently buy them knowing full well that their Sony headphones don't do the same things that Apple's AirPods do.