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EU Planning to Force Apple to Give Developers Access to All Hardware and Software Features
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No, because in the end consumers will lose. Spyware apps posing as innocent apps, could be doing nefarious things under the covers with unrestricted access.
If people cared about security and privacy there would not be 1 social media left...
So I don't think advertizing how safe / privacy oriented would make a difference, people are willing to give all the info and access for a free gem or something on FarmVille / candycrash (whatever is the new coll thing.)
I suppose "unclear" or "opaque" transparency wouldn't be very effective or desirable...
Lol, are you sure about that? iMessage isn't even a thing in Europe, they use superior apps that are interoperable, multiplatform, and do more than sending sparkly messages.
EU isn't doing this for consumers. They were lobbied by billion/trillion dollar software developers and it also provides cover for breaking privacy/security on mobile. That's the reason the EU refuses to treat privacy/security as being a form of market competition.
It’s the same “here’s the grand and totally realistic plan to do something totally unfathomable to get their way.”
Like, you want Apple to lie and say they can’t legally operate given these potential regulations and then threaten to shut down completely in the EU, affecting hundreds of millions of people and business?
Maybe instead of threatening to close shop, they can say “here’s why we can’t give you access to *feature x*” and then see if their argument holds up like it has for their arguments against sideloading.
Honestly, I don’t think any of this would be an issue if Apple allowed sideloading. A small minority of people wanted sideloading enough to get Apple’s attention, and now we have a bunch of old geezers trying to regulate tech. “We want full access to NFC” doesn’t have the same ring as “I just want to download a utility app or emulator like I can on any other major platform.”
Keep dreaming on that one. It is bare bones information only and is a one-way path with very few exceptions. You certainly cannot interface with the infotainment system, much less put data on it. There is zero API access.Yeah, with just a laptop or MacBook, free software, and an OBD-II-to-USB-C cable.
Nothing I said was a lie. The EU wants to force Apple to operate in a way that infringes upon the security-centric and privacy-conscious design of their product. The EU is basically saying, "make your product less secure, even though we don't know jack about security; or leave."
Apple is completely in the right to call out the ignorance and poor foresight of the EU's proposal, and suggest that the EU's effectively forcing Apple to choose between weakening the security and privacy protections it provides its customers or leaving the market altogether. The EU is not the good guy here, and Apple has every right to defend itself against stupidity and malice.
If anything, Apple has a responsibility and moral duty to inform the EU's citizens that their government is inept and trying to weaken their own security and privacy protections.
Apple might have to I’d imagine this would require quite an overhaul of the os. The fine they’re talking about is so large they might actually have to pull out at least for a while.
If what's being reported is accurate, I think the EU are massively overreaching, and if I was an Apple lobbyist I'd be considering sending such an email to customers well in advance of it ever becoming law for exactly the same reasons you outline.
However, the other side will pitch it as "guaranteeing interoperability between systems" and "enabling small developers to take on the giants" and, undoubtedly "security, privacy and protection of children will be enhanced"
Unfortunately it won't be as no-brainer as you or I might think/hope. In the UK (outside the EU now) our equivalent Act is likely to go through Parliament on the strength of right-ish leaning newspapers such as the Daily Mail playing the "won't somebody think of the children" and "only the crims need encryption" cards. ?♂️
The issues that we on this forum (technically aware and interested) recognise as serious or critical are simply not even on the radar of most people. T'was ever thus -
- Winston S Churchill, 11 November 1947
You sound like Elon Musk lol.
Welcome to the future. European iOS: full of adware and spyware. Rest of the world iOS: beautifully kept walled garden.
This makes no sense to me. iOS is about 28% of the smartphone market. Android is roughly the remaining 72%. if anything, Android should be the one more impacted by this legislation
iOS is intellectual property owned, developed, and maintained by Apple. Every consumer has a choice which smartphone to purchase, and candidly most are choosing Android.
There's a reason the minority purchase Apple, and Apple has benefited greatly. Success is not illegal when done in open market places with options.
iOS is intellectual property owned, developed, and maintained by Apple. Every consumer has a choice which smartphone to purchase, and candidly most are choosing Android.
There's a reason the minority purchase Apple, and Apple has benefited greatly. Success is not illegal when done in open market places with options.
I've just rescued my elderly neighbour from a life of misery by migrating his wretched Android phone to an iPhone. God only knows how he managed to install so much crud on that phone but it was basically unusable, with all manner of popups (with dubious grammatical errors) and warnings getting in the way. OK, he's an old bloke on his own, he probably visits dodgy websites, but it's a crying shame that his phone let him turn his device into a useless piece of junk.
I told him that kind of nonsense won't happen to his new iPhone.
But now I'm not so sure...
I told him that kind of nonsense won't happen to his new iPhone.
But now I'm not so sure...
Is the eu just patently dumb? Can’t push both this and privacy plus consumer protection. All of it is intertwined and you can’t open one up and restrict the other they are at odds.
Oh yeah. Nokia really pushed the envelope. That is why they are irrelevant today like BlackBerry. They did not innovate
I would argue the mistake they made was siding with Windows Phone, which was an OS leagues ahead of iOS and Android at the time.
Unfortunately it was too far ahead and consumers didn't bite.
Same will come to USA and UK, etc. and few jaws will drop at Cupertino.
Spoken like a person that's never done it. You are extremely limited in what data you can read, and write without access to the full diagnostic tool provided by the manufacturer.Yeah, with just a laptop or MacBook, free software, and an OBD-II-to-USB-C cable.
If people only took that view with these stupid masks...
On the bright side if this goes through I can't wait until the EU forces these same rules and regulations to the PlayStation and XBox stores!