Then don't install the third-party remote control apps? TeamViewer is not going to force anyone at gunpoint to install an iPhone app.
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iOS 18.4: iPhone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing Still Missing in EU
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Then don't install the third-party remote control apps? TeamViewer is not going to force anyone at gunpoint to install an iPhone app.
The EU is asking Apple to do something that it believes would make its customers less safe. Apple is well within its rights to say "no, we're not going to do that."
In fact, I'd argue that they should be celebrated for doing so, because they're actually standing up to their principles and making their devices slightly less appealing to do so. It'd be easier to say "fine, others can do it too" and offer the feature in the EU and say "if our customers are less safe and secure, that's on them."
Missing implies expected. These features are just not coming to the EU.
Good. The EU should just receive basic updates and nothing else.
There is no evidence that opening up screen sharing on Apple devices would make them less secure. These features have been functional for years across Windows and Android with no incidents that I'm aware about. Apple just doesn't wants more reasons for iPhone owners to buy a Mac, and opening up iPhone screen sharing to other desktop platforms removes one of those reasons. That's it.
Apple being everyone's nanny is no better than the EU supposedly being a nanny state. This is also a company that has repeatedly let malware and scam apps in the App Store, so I have no idea where so many people are getting this misplaced sense of ultra-high standards. I can go download AI girlfriend and unregulated cryptocurrency trading apps through the App Store right now, but not a Wii emulator or real Firefox?
Speak up on the way the EU treats American companies. The EU is getting what they deserve.
You can do literally anything you could do holding the phone on your Mac without unlocking it. You don't think there are any security or privacy concerns that opens up if given to third parties? And regardless, the idea that Apple APIs have to be offered to competitors for free is ridiculous on its face.
iOS is Apple's property to do with as it sees fit. If you don't like that, there is a perfectly good alternative. Apple shouldn't be required to offer piracy facilitation apps or alternate browser engines if they don't want to any more than Walmart should be required to sell porn in its stores. If that is an issue for you, again, there is an alternative.
I guess we can count ourselves lucky that we actually get the newest iPhones every year and not last years' or the ones from the year before that.
Wait a second! Do you actually agree that Apple should give full control of your Apple devices to devices, or operating systems, or apps from other companies? Do you really want to open all your data to all the apps that you use?
If you buy a computer or a phone from any other brand, you can theoretically control all of your data. You can also block outside access.
Apple's main product is its ecosystem. You can control your data within that ecosystem. Giving the same privileges to all other apps makes it impossible for you to control your data and your privacy, therefore Apple can not open its devices to third parties as it opens it to its other products, and save your privacy at the same time.
EU is basically telling Apple to choose between not selling an ecosystem as a product, and abandoning user privacy. Apple can't abandon user privacy, so they chose not to sell the perfect ecosystem within the EU. They absolutely do not have the option to give you those features while also keeping you safe.
If as a EU citizen, you are annoyed with this, you should direct your anger to your government which didn't give Apple an option that would make you happy.
It does. From the DMA:
So if Apple has the ability to have full control of devices remotely, third parties get to have that capability too.
They can still sell their products here, can't they?
It's American companies that think they can do whatever they like.
As I said, They have a free choice. Comply or don't and risk giving up their market share to the competition.
Microsoft already has the phone link app on android to do screen mirroring on windows. So this is just punishing mac users because of where they live.
Yes, I think there are security or privacy concerns, and I think Apple is perfectly capable of addressing them just like they have done on the Mac for decades. The EU is not forcing Apple to allow malware on its platforms. The EU is asking the duopoly of smartphone manufacturers to treat their devices like computers, because for many people, the smartphone is their primary or only computer.
This is how all operating systems work. There are APIs for apps to connect with system services, that's how every app on iPhone works. Apple also isn't doing anything "for free" right now, they charge all developers $99/yr for the privilege of submitting any applications or browser extensions for signing and/or publication. That's why I can't put any of my browser extensions on Safari—they don't generate any revenue to make that money back.
Pretty poor implementation by apple if it doesn't check on the mac it is signed into the same iCloud account to be able to use screen mirroring.
And Google doesn't make a OS for mac hardware
