Only if my modification affects that specific thing. Warranty is a legal obligation you can’t lose. Extreme example: if I modify my seats and windshield to something different, I still can’t lose the warranty on the rest of the car such as the engine or wheels. This have been clear for decades.
Apple isn’t asked to write new code. They are asked to remove code.
Wanna guess where the most locked down cars are sold? USA, because they can.
Well they do make the technology apple, Microsoft or google etc uses.My apologies. I said “billion” when I really meant “trillion”.
and do you see the difference between them vs say, Apple and Google, which between them, make up almost 100% of the mobile market?
Or how Facebook and Google have effectively monopolised ad revenue?
Or Microsoft with their dominant share in enterprise desktop computing?
Even Uber, for all the negative press surrounding them, has managed to reinvent the staid taxi industry.
Those companies you listed probably provide genuinely useful services, but when was the last time you heard of any of them moving the needle in the tech world?
As a general rule, I feel that legislation should be telling people what not to do, rather than dictating what they should do, because this is the surest way to kill off innovation in the market.
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Yes but I demand access to ALL hardware and software features, right? So I want to install the software I wrote myself while drunk to control the car's safety features. I'm entitled to it!
You want to do whatever you want? Buy an Android phone. The choice already exists. These clown lawmakers and their tiny group of supporters want to buy ONLY an iPhone and have it change to be more like Android phones when hundreds of miliions of people bought knowing its pros and cons and are happy with it. Supporters of this are like a snot nosed kid that didn't get invited to another kid's birthday party because they are insufferable and smell really bad, so they whined to parents who forced them into the party against everyone's wishes. Go away. Buy a different phone if you don't like this one, or build your own. Don't force everyone else to use your crappy half-baked idea.
Except you can't, because many hardware and software features are locked down due to security. Your modern car needs a $750 or something key fob. You can't just stick a flathead screwdriver in and turn the engine anymore. Your smart fridge you could maybe force Linux onto and void the warranty, but you have these guys adding headphone jacks and USBC ports to iPhones and voiding the warranty too. It's possible, just a bunch of mouth-breathing smooth-brains want to know nothing about electrical engineering AND be able to tinker under the hood of their iPhone at the expense of every other iPhone user. Why can't they just buy a different phone that meets their needs (like Android, with its less limited customization)? Beats me, seems they want all the pros of an iPhone AND not to develop their own BUT none of the cons. What a moronic approach
I'll be the first to bash America's corrupt joke of a single-party system acting like a two-party system, so we're on the same page there, but if Apple threatened to pull out of these countries getting too big for their britches and proposing nonsense laws to coercr Apple into making their phones worse (like Android already does, which is an option for all these whiners), and Apple announced this to their users, the country would receive sufficient backlash to backpedal on these idiotic laws. That I can tell you for sure. Every Apple user bought their iPhone knowing the pros and cons, the tiny minority (way smaller than 20%) are the ones that want to buy the iPhone AND be able to recklessly do anything to it without having any knowledge of anything (for example electrical engineering) which would already allow them to be customizing it if they had it. The vast majority of us don't want this in our ecosystem. Go away, get an Android phone and mod it however you want and install whatever you want. The choice for you already exists. No, you NEEEEEEEEEEED to buy specifically an iPhone and you NEEEEEEEEEEED it to work your way and not the way that hundreds of millions of users need it to work. How petulant
Correct, if you change the ECU and the engine blows up, most likely you are out of luck.
That’s like forcing the automaker to update their ecu so that the engine revs higher (and be subject to failure) However your analysis that all apple has to is remove a “little code” is hyperbole.
iMessage’s video communication platform is called FaceTime.
Lowest common denominator. You’d have to ask apple why they didn’t adopt rcs.
Companies are not above the law.
So will your choice continue to exist, to only download and install things approved and blessed by Apple (from their App Store). Even if this regulations comes to pass.
Nobody said companies are above the law. However a company is not u see any obligation to do business where it doesn’t want because of the economic or regulatory climate.
Wrong, Apple doesnt operate in EU because of "current rules", it operate in EU because it's profitable and it would also be profitable even with the new legislation.
Yes it is, the suggestion that Apple should cripple the products that were bough by EU consumers in order for these consumers to revolt against the EU because Apple doesn't like the new legislation is indeed blackmail.
So an utopian idea, that's your argument.
I was talking about the public society, the media, public institutions, private companies and so on.
An irrelevant example.
Of course other companies would be affected, the legislation isn't directed towards a single company no matter how much users here try to suggest it, the difference is that there isn't much lamentation from other affected companies so all the information suggests that the other affected parties would just adapt to the new legislation without much fuss.That just shows that you don’t understand that Google and other non-EU companies would be affected.
EU didn't demand anything like that from Whatsapp.
They aren't obliged to conduct business in a jurisdiction.
We’ll sure apple can threaten. Since when is telling a government that the regulatory climate is not suitable to do business and unless concessions are made the company won’t do business.
“EU Planning to Force Apple to Give Developers Access to All Hardware and Software Features”
Why would it? Take the App Store, for instance: Apple has no competition for App distribution today. There's no other App Store on the platforms Apple operates their own on. Opening that would force Apple to compete, innovate and provide a superior platform at competitive pricing.
Of course a company can publicly announce how they will or might react to changes in laws. But again, that's not that's not the issue and not what macar00n was talking about. He/she suggested they'd successfully incite customers to have lawmakers abandon it within mere hours.
Only on Windows. On Mac and Linux apps could address more memory using PAE, but MS couldn’t be bothered to implement this.
