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EU Approves Landmark Legislation to Regulate Apple and Other Big Tech Firms
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Can you imagine the nightmare of Amazon using your iPhone to listen to everything you do or Facebook gathering all the data from your phone and selling it, or how about a hacker creating their own voice AI that gives them control over your phone?
They could access your photos, emails, texts and pretty much anything they want!
Yeah let us all want that to happen please EU....[End Sarcasm]
Wrong wrong wrong, everything in the legislation is designed to grab as much of Apple's money as they can whilst also destroying Apple simply for being successful and not being EU.
This will end completion....the end!
Finally a move that shows how out of touch and self serving the EU truly is!
Whilst you are debating with yourself maybe you should understand their is no choice as the EU has taken it away so ANY hacker could take your phone regardless of if you side load or not.
I have forgotten more about tech security than you will ever know so I am right when I say this move is dumb!
You know that in the eu apple has to offer 2 years warranty by law, right? Certainly voiding that because you installed an app would be considered illegal and apple would lose a court case. Also the law says clearly that access to the various technologies (NFT, Secure Enclave etc) must be granted, apple can’t exclude an app just because it wants to.
Because the EU was founded by a certain German(Austrian actually but who cares) called Adolf!
Documents where recently uncovered that shows British Intelligence knew that in 1942 Martin Boreman (Adolf's private secretary and number 2) met with leading German industrialists etc to say that they will lose the war and plans should be made to move certain assets etc offshore and then move back once the dust settles.
The first president of the EU(it's predecessor) was a former senior Third Reich member!
So in my view I see plenty of proof to show that the EU is just the Third Reich reborn!
Then use another app and stop using WA etc.
It is like crying because you hate the taste of Coca Cola but continue drinking it!
Let’s evaluate that when the time comes.
And what is that WW2 EU that you’re referring to?
The EU intention is selfish and evil
The EU do not care about you or your family, they hate you!
The EU have no clue what they are doing!
Who are the EU to demand that Apple and others should not be successful?
Surely that goes for the EU as well then as they are very successful and way more powerful than Apple?
I could go...
That has to be determined yet, there is no product in place that adheres to this regulation. Good software teams will learn to work with challenges, and there never was full security in the first place. Everything has a weak point somewhere.
Those keys will now be open and easy to steal! It would take me less than 1 day to infect your phone (if you owned an iPhone) and own you!
This is pure stupidity !
How? Making their own OS and selling a device?
What's wrong with you people? You want the company to be punished for making something you like? No one forced you to buy an iPhone. And, you still don't have to. And, there are options to pubs other devices.
You know, nobody was being up Nokia when it was dominating the cell world. Apple was even laughed at for entering the market. People even laughed at the App Store. They only care once you are successful. Just lame.
How? BY allowing ANY hacker to own any iPhone with nothing the owner can do to stop it!
I would explain it to you but I do not have the patience!
It’s going to be interesting to see how this pans out. It’ll be interesting to review after a year or two what is better for consumers and what is worse.
WRONG! This weakens security and you have no clue at all!
Shall I tell you how easy it is to infect this and steal those keys that make the magic of encryption work?
Does not work like that, this is dumb wether you like it or not!
Dumb dumb dumb!
DONE
Laws, regulations, etc. can be handled differently in different countries/regions. In this case, the EU appears to be addressing a number of potential antitrust issues that have been in the works e.g., sideloading, app payment systems, app stores, browser or browser engine restrictions, default settings or agreements, etc. They have now more clearly defined what puts a company in the dominant/gatekeeper category, have identified activities they feel violate antitrust regulations, requirements, fines, etc.
All affected companies will need to comply, not just Apple. As with many laws and regulations, people may agree with all, some or none of what is in the DMA/DSA but it is what it is. How Apple. Google and others decide to move forward will be up to them.
Ironically, many people here have been arguing that Apple should be able to set its own rules for activities within their platform yet complain when the EU tries to set their own rules for activities within their "platform" (member countries). In a sense, Apple is getting a taste of their own medicine.
I am sure we will all survive without the facist n*zi EU, where can I wave them goodbye?