The US can use gag orders to make Apple spy on its customers and Apple will not even be allowed to talk about that. Privacy laws in the US are much weaker than in the EU. The US even publish mug shots.
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Apple Says New EU Interoperability Rules 'Bad for Our Products and Our Users'
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Yes, but the argument is "no user will be forced to leave the walled garden". And that isn't true. If I wanted an open ecosystem I would have purchased an Android device. The EU doesn't need to "fix" that for me - the competition ALREADY exists.
What the EU and its defenders don't understand is that the reason people buy into Apple's ecosystem and stay there is because Apple's rules result in better products and user experiences, not because the rules hinder competition.
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If this means iPhone and iPad accessories can be better I have zero issues with it.
Apple seems to have forgotten their motive to incorporate in to Ireland for some reason...
That's not what that report says, now is it? Opening up APIs for AirDrop and AirPlay to other OEMs doesn't mean Apple has to hand over anything, these other OEMs still need to build it themselves.
It means they can no longer user AirDrop and Airplay as differentiating features that encourage people to stay in Apple's ecosystem. That's theft of Apple's intellectual property.
To use an analogy, it's like saying that because you let a friend stay in your guest bedroom for free you have to let others you don't want in your house stay in your guest room for free. If that was the law, you probably wouldn't let friends stay over, now would you? So why should Apple continue to offer these features in the EU?
You jest, but that’s actually quite in line with many European countries values. People are a lot less capitalistic and entrepreneurial here. But feel very entitled after somebody else takes the risks and makes it.
I would kiss the ground if the EU and the DMA would ban Apple Intelligence for good but sadly I have to disable it again and again on my Mac.
I don't buy the argument for AirPlay. It's already pretty widely adopted in the sense that every TV manufacturer supports it including Apple's competitors like Samsung. Even Roku supports it on their streaming boxes.
AirDrop is another story.
AirDrop is another story.
I've got an expensive third party glucose checking medical device that can't give proper alarms, and timely notifications at night because of Apple's OS rules that have morphed over the last few years -Apple Watch, and Standby. Go on. Tell me more about better product and user experiences...
*AW Complications do not refresh every five minutes (Work around using Apple Calendar, limiting watch face choice)
*Standby apps, including Apple Calendar refresh every fifteen minutes, and because of timing may not present accurate data.
*Dynamic island can kind of get around this limitation, but data location is small, and require automation to refresh use of dynamic island every six hours because of OS limits. When the refresh occurs, the control appears full screen in standby mode, removing any other useful app like a clock from the phone screen.
*If wearing Apple Watch at night, and using Standby, alarms are notably muted to the watch device, which depending on the location of said watch might not be heard.
I'm certain there are similar nightmare scenarios on Android, but I refuse to believe Apple's product necessarily has better user experience.
It's all about greed for Apple. Sorry, but if they had made in app purchases a reasonable 5% fee to cover credit processing fees plus some extra, they wouldn't have brought all these lawsuits upon themselves. The walled garden went too far.
Do you have any more insightful and well thought out comments to offer us?
Wrong, the ability to use AirDrop with Android or Windows would make iOS and macOS much, much more useful. Apple used to be good with open standards, Bonjour is just mDNS and DNS-SD, AirPrint is IPP. Apple was interested to move the entire industry forward. Now they are trying to a be nationalist island and it sucks.
It doesn’t. It means your phone will be less stable and secure, even if you don’t use non-Apple accessories.
How does a "Smart Thing Notifications" API make the platform less stable?
Unless you're insinuating Apple is literally incapable of making interoperable. That'd be kind of funny honestly.
Oh well, yes, another tantrum thrown - yawn.
You want to generate money on our market? Play by our rules - simple as that!
You want to generate money on our market? Play by our rules - simple as that!
Oh, I see! “Create nothing, appropriate everything” must become a slogan of the 🇪🇺. And it is similar everywhere: economy, culture, politics, even international policy. EUCCP in action
As soon as a competitor demands Apple allow them to load their own drivers into iOS, the EU will rule that Apple must let them. Game over for stability.
Of course if AirDrop was everywhere it'd be more useful. I don't think anyone would argue that. What I am saying is it should be Apple's decision to share any of its inventions/features with other companies, not the EU's. If Apple wants to use AirDrop to differentiate its products and give users additional reasons to stay in the ecosystem they should absolutely be allowed to do so.
Should Disney be required to allow Universal Studios to create a Star Wars theme park ride without compensation? No? Then why should Apple be forced to give AirDrop to its competitors? In both cases we're talking about intellectual property that is used to differentiate product offerings.
Apple knows that this means they actually have to innovate to stay ahead of the pack now. Charging fees and growing their business with these fees has been their golden walled garden for a decade. Apple has been a freight train speeding through a valley of protifitablity since Jobs. Now that there's a massive hill, that inertia will slow and maybe even crap out. Tim Cook, it's time to haul ass. Nothing easy was ever worth anything.
I want the devices you decided to shelve like the car, AirPower, airport basestation mesh system HomePods with touchscreens, smart glasses that don't look like ski goggles, software that doesn't hit like the new photos app... etc.
I want the devices you decided to shelve like the car, AirPower, airport basestation mesh system HomePods with touchscreens, smart glasses that don't look like ski goggles, software that doesn't hit like the new photos app... etc.
That’s hilarious that you think the US doesn’t want to spy on its citizens. Just look at their record with this, it’s not hidden knowledge.