Apple restricted macOS more over time, they did the opposite there. Of course the opposite of the opposite here does not change it anymore than it did on macOS.
No one leaves their country when they like 9 parts but dislike 1 for another country where they like 8 parts but dislike 2, but the 1 part from the prior being a positive here. As an old friend once said, only a Sith deals in absolutes.
A lot of diverse input from all sides of the unverse flow into the development of the Chromium project. It is even more open than the USB consortium, which is also always under close observation from governments and opening up more and more to prevent it from ever reaching a proprietary status.
Apple only has/had Safari and Lightning to offer/counter, two things that no one else uses.
HeheYou’re on your own, now. That was the idea, right?
Technically the UK is free to support its citizens just as much but I guess the exit was just so that politicians would have less headaches with the EU over their infringement of the declaration about respecting EU laws when they did one shady thing after another - namely also in the sphere of surveillance, iirc.
Yeah, the EU is so so bad, just wants to rule.
You can technically be a monopoly without legally being a monopoly, it all depends on where you live and how the law is laid out. Apple had 100% control on who gets to release their apps, who gets to pay which commission while also having to pay zero commission themselves (cue in how much Apple spends on the platform blabla, if they say it's a lot it must be true etc.).
The EU commission doesn't have to take Apple's word for it, they want to see the data. The data did not back any of Apple's claims to security so we are now where we are and Apple has no one to blame other than themselves. They could have saved all their money on lawyers and marketing and investors and could have improved their App Store in the meantime to set it apart from others, but they didn't. It's 100% on them.
This is 100% about competition because the EU was hearing out all the voices who wanted to be heard, not just Apple's, Google's, Tinder's or Spotify's.
It's citizens all the time everywhere saying that they know everything better than politicians. Now, have you had a chat with a minister and their committee that is assigned to a field? No? Then stop spreading random bias based on a simple anti-politician mindset. If you think that these committees don't involve experts in their field, then you are simply still thinking of governments that are not well developed. The EU is not such a dinosaur government.
The heads of the EU commission may know little about tech but they also don't have to, they technically just need to be team leads of their committees and political co-workers, and be able to be publicly visible.
Also, governments have many tools to know many things beter than citizens or random posters on MR forums. Try to look on comments on national non-English tech blogs, they are all in favor of this except for some with bad Google Translate skills.
As above. Plus, Google is designates as Gatekeeper, too, yet they abided by the rules much earlier and they also have been sued multiple times. They don't get better treatment therefore there is no hypocricy.
RAM and CPU are performance factors, they don't prevent or enable rendering. if you use GPU features (which is a no-no in web design), you have privileged shader technology which lets you take shortcuts so to speak, and basically execute some code as if it were native code, saving you energy and freeing up resources and performance.
That is just nonsense.
This. People have no idea how frustrating it is having to support old schemes from the bronze age just because Apple is that one guy in the study group who never shows up and then appears at the last meeting and still wants to resent part of the presentaton to give the teacher the impression he actually worked on that. Newsflash, he didn't, and the whole group suffered, and its audience was lied to also.
Apple in fact is thus responsible for websites taking more space than should be necesary. Yes, Apple's Safari theoretically looks nice on initial RAM usage but with modern web technologies, it is just nowhere near Chrome's or Firefox's engines, and most of the time has to execute fallback/legacy code.
