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The irony is that they could happily build it into Windows as its a 3rd party OS. What the EU want is for Apple to allow Android mirroring on the Mac so that one particular platform is not favoured over another. I could never understand the opposition to such a move from the forum myself.
Android mirroring is already possible

 
I may have meant on the Mac
It works on both Windows and macOS
The screenshots even show the Mac version

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End of the world as we know it according to the people foaming at their mouth frantically with rage every time anything like this is brought up.

Yes ... this sort of stuff "ruins why I love Apple".

I can never figure out "why", but we sure seem to hear that general take anytime useful interoperability is added.

This stuff is great for users!
(you know ... "us" 🤣)
 
I really hope this feature comes to the US. I'm so tired of having to email files to myself just to get them from my iPhone to my PC.
 
It's disappointing that Apple adds things like that only when they're forced by the EU law. You'd think if they're so confident with their hardware they wouldn't mind opening their walled garden for other platforms a bit. It's as if they believe people would suddenly stop buying Macbooks the second iOS and Windows has some basic interoperability, lol.
 
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Seriously though, how does FOSS fit in here? Is there a way for FOSS organizations to interface with "gatekeepers" to get FOSS software and devices to interoperate with commercial counterparts?
It would probably require a commercial entity like SUSE or RedHat.
 
Let's gate everything until governments force us to add features that are useful to all! LOL
Good to see this becoming more the norm. The walled garden approach isn't friendly to consumers.
The assumption you're making here is that these inter-device features would somehow get developed apart from a closed ecosystem. If companies can't create new features to make only their products more attractive, then that cuts off the legs of any monetary motivation they have to make those new features. If all closed ecosystems are made illegal, then all ecosystems will start falling apart and it will fall on third parties using standard protocols to try to sell hacked-together (inefficient non ideal) solutions.
 
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The assumption you're making here is that these inter-device features would somehow get developed apart from a closed ecosystem. If companies can't create new features to make only their products more attractive, then that cuts off the legs of any monetary motivation they have to make those new features. If all closed ecosystems are made illegal, then all ecosystems will start falling apart and it will fall on third parties using standard protocols to try to sell hacked-together (inefficient non ideal) solutions.
Companies can create new features to make only their products more attractive. For example Apple used to bundle Internet Explorer and later always pushed Microsoft Office down to everybody because they needed to gain marketshare. They created iChat that had Aol Instant Messenger, Jabber, many different services (later cut it all out and made it proprietary Messages only.) They had iSync to connect ANY phone you had to sync contacts and calendars and music from their computers to your devices, then they cut that all out and created MobileMe and iCloud and more gating. No problem to have a superior solution as a company, but you don't have to just cut out other options.
You can have other options still work fine and people will gravitate towards your superior solution that your closed company created.
 
Paired how exactly…? Over Bluetooth? Or some app that has to be running on both systems?

Not that I’m in the EU, but I’d much prefer AirDrop to PC functionality.
I imagine they'd just add the functionality to the existing iCloud for Windows software Apple makes. It'd just sync the Windows clipboard to iCloud and your phone, same as it does for Mac

Cool idea! I'm sure Apple will incorporate some guardrails to prevent malicious code from being uploaded from a PC to the iPhone (or vice versa)?

Well, they already do have this for Mac, it's pretty basic though it just looks at the source of the copy and it will pop up an alert: If your Mac blocks a Terminal command paste or script. They could do the same for Windows I imagine but will they?
 
Apple says introducing cross-device copy and paste is a significant engineering effort, with work expected to be complete by fall 2027. It will be shipped first in a developer beta for testing ahead of a public release. If the feature is added toward the end of fall 2027, it could be early 2028 before the public gets access.
If they have thought this with interoperability in mind since the very beginning, it would have already done. But not, let’s focus on own closed ecosystem until someone complains.
 
25 years ago we could bluetooth file transfer files between Mac OS X, Windows XP, Palm Pilot and some other platforms.

But then came the media stories saying bluetooth was a privacy danger to us all and then it all got gatekept and locked up.
 
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