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Apple to Let EU iPhone Users Delete Safari and More Easily Transition to Android
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ACCC has been pretty good so far. It would be disappointing to see them do something stupid as EU where they are just punishing other companies rather than putting in policies that enable homegrown technology companies.
Apple’s EU app store changes open door for Australia to improve digital platforms competition
Australia is expected to look closely at Apple’s decision to comply with EU competition rules in light of its long-running digital platforms inquiry
Then that would tell Apple alot about their failures a d that they should do better
No. Microsoft was not declared a monopoly. They settled a case accusing them of anti-competitive practices before it was adjudicated. That’s quite a bit different from being declared a monopoly.
Consumers still have choice. They can choose not to use all these new features Apple is adding to iOS and simply use the all Apple ecosystem as before.
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You are correct. The choice is to use only those parts of the system which have been carefully designed by Apple vs. those parts which have been politically engineered by government bureaucrats responding to pressure from moneyed interests. Of course, the user will have to guess which is which and make their way through the FUD by promoted by malevolent interests and their useful idiots.
Lol you shared similar article with vague information again!Apple’s EU app store changes open door for Australia to improve digital platforms competition
Australia is expected to look closely at Apple’s decision to comply with EU competition rules in light of its long-running digital platforms inquirywww.theguardian.com
Nothing changed since last comment
you are aware that first 4 points will get same treatment as apple under DMA right?
Google was great an now it's just a monopoly. Same with chrome, which is basically forced.
Everyone is on fb/insta/WhatsApp fue to snowball effect (everyone is there and it's a walled garden so migrating to different platform is night to impossible).
And that's the whole idea of DMA and regulation - make the platform more open (interop) and give users more choice (ancient browser selection screen).
You are talking here from apple perspective but it's not the single entity that's being "punished" but obviously macrumors focus mostly on it...
Ah yes, launchers on iOS, the platform notorious for having a way to change the default Home screen implementation that makes Android's one pale in comparison.
I spent 3 months on android last year because I didn't want to take my Pro iPhone somewhere particularly iffy. If you have a Mac it's pretty easy getting the data out I found. Incidentally I don't mind Android that much. If I didn't have a lot of Apple stuff already and I wasn't feeling like a cheap ass I might even still be on it.
However I agree there needs to be something like Google Takeout for Apple's ecosystem. I am very much not a fan of the device first admin stuff. Also some of the file formats and data repositories that Apple use are definitely not portable. I literally have a portability risk list here and the key problems are:
- you can't export notes
- you can't export reminders
- Numbers/Pages file formats are completely different to anything else.
- Photos metadata is impossible to export
- iMessage history is impossible to export
And nothing is taken away from that statement in the EU. There are just some other stores around the corner. But you can just stay in the Main Street if you prefer.
In November 1999, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson declared Microsoft a monopoly in computer operating systems.
Yeah, I want the high commissions to continue. Apple isn't giving up that profit, so if commissions decrease, device and Apple service costs will increase.
These companies have hundreds of millions of users on iOS andmake millions off the iOS ecosystem. Making them cover some costs and share some profits is wholly reasonable.
Don’t you worry about the richest tech company in the world. They are creative enough to get their hands on your money. No matter what.
Of course nothing has changed. You have to wait for Australian Anti-trust (or anti competition commission) to take action. Obviously, they will not have taken that action between my two posts. It is easy to obtain the same information by Googling or searching for ABC news in the YouTube.
But it's still nice to have the choice, will I use it no but if I want to I can.
So you think if some killer app comes along that regular iOS users aren’t allowed to run by Apple, people will look the other way around?
Guess again. People will download anything if there’s something in it for them.
I think it's more that people barely know how to use their devices already so this will only have an impact for a very small subset of power users who both show interest and are capable. This is an observation from spending a lot of time over the last 5 years being "the IT guy" on day trips and expeditions with large groups.
A fine example being I've seen people consider buying a new phone very recently because theirs won't charge quickly. This turns out to be that they bought a crap USB-C cable or charger, not because there is anything wrong with the phone. The software knowledge is between worse and none.
I would not make any assumption that the people here represent the average user. We are on whole from what I can see definitely more interested, because we're here to start with, and definitely capable based on the quality of the discussion generally.
Apple’s EU app store changes open door for Australia to improve digital platforms competition
Australia is expected to look closely at Apple’s decision to comply with EU competition rules in light of its long-running digital platforms inquiry
This is why Apple should just have stopped selling the iPhone in the EU and just sold an Android phone in the EU instead. Because now Australia and other countries might want the same thing now.
Tim Cook made a huge mistake.
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There doesn’t even need to be something in it for them. They just need to think there is. They also won’t read the terms of service nor will they pay attention to warnings on the computer. This is why social engineering and Trojans work.
Is the EU market that large to even justify complying with its communistic demands.... Apple should pull out of the EU
Why is our government even allowing all this bullying?
Why is our government even allowing all this bullying?