Of course it can affect me. It just needs to be an app I want which is only available outside the App Store and it will affect me.
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Of course it can affect me. It just needs to be an app I want which is only available outside the App Store and it will affect me.
It's about the number of users and the revenue and market cap of the company.
It's not ruing. iPad OS will work like it always has.
You seem to think the current solution isn't working but it has been working since 2008.
Why would you blame the EU, the fact that the DMA only makes these changes mandatory for iOS doesn't change the fact that Apple absolutely could implement them across the board.
This is Apple's choice.
It's all about numbers.
Numbers of end-users.
Numbers of business users.
Revenue in EU.
Market cap of the company.
Number of EU countries they operate in.
And if they hit those numbers for 3 consecutive years, they are bound by the DMA.
You could be a multi-billion dollar (or euro) company with tens of millions of monthly users and not be bound by the DMA.
In a way, yes. Because it is a shared component used throughout iOS. A problem fixed in WebKit is a problem fixed in multiple places.
Because the EU is the one trying to control companies products and services in detail.
EU was free not to implement the DMA. It wasn't forced on them.
That’s the way Apple was controlling them. It’s been like that forever and that’s why they now need to change it. I mean, it’s the whole point of the complaint regarding web browsers.
This is not opening the platform at all. You have to use another store and you have to pay fees. Opening up a platform is you can install whatever you want without apples permission.
Yes, I don't want Apple's software and services to change that much and not in the direction the EU wants. So anything Apple can do stop these changes is good for me as customer and user.
I want a highly controlled environment where developers and power users has very little power. In face, I want them to be treated as second class citizens.
It's true. Have you read the DMA?
iPad OS doesn't have enough users in the EU and thus the DMA doesn't affect it. If there were a few million more iPad users in the EU, Apple would have to treat iPad OS the same as iOS.
So, it's basically just numbers which determines if a certain software or service is deemed a gatekeeper.
I have zero sympathy for anyone and any company who wanted government regulation but now doesn’t like how Apple complied with government interference in the marketplace. Seeking government interference in the marketplace to protect or advance your business is immoral and deserves all the trouble that follows. (Not defending Apple.)
this is their attitude towards regulation, not developers.
When iPhone and iPod touch were new, I understood their reluctance. They didn't want a separate version of JavaScript running and they wouldn't allow emulators because who knew what code could be executed.
A lot of time has passed and their death grip is strangling their image. Now, it mostly seems to be about money, and somewhat about privacy.
The way that they're handling alternative app stores and payments, they could just do it everywhere and make people happy all over the world.
The way that they're handling browsers is just ridiculous.
A lot of time has passed and their death grip is strangling their image. Now, it mostly seems to be about money, and somewhat about privacy.
The way that they're handling alternative app stores and payments, they could just do it everywhere and make people happy all over the world.
The way that they're handling browsers is just ridiculous.
All we wanted is a way to extend the life of older iOS devices by allowing an updated browser when Apple abandons updating webkit. Not being forced to recycle perfectly good and powerful devices just because Apple says so because lack of browser updates.
They’re doing the absolute minimum they are asked to do. Playing real hardball because they can. The truth is that taking this stance is not going to hurt them because the vast majority of users are completely unaware of this. It hurts developers of web browsers, which are largely competitors.
At the same time, though, I am happy that it screws Google, which is much more evil than Apple when it comes to user privacy. The only reason I would never try an android phone is that I have to sign in to Google to use it.
At the same time, though, I am happy that it screws Google, which is much more evil than Apple when it comes to user privacy. The only reason I would never try an android phone is that I have to sign in to Google to use it.
You forgot the other vitally important factor: Safari sucks greasy monkey testicles.
When are the voices that continually bray this figure out there unrealistic spouting is being pretty much ignored.
Wow talk about malicious conpliance
I was looking forward to using OpenWatchTogether on iPad since MobileSafari’s incomplete implementation of full screen mode caused it to not work properly anymore but I guess not 🤷♂️
I was looking forward to using OpenWatchTogether on iPad since MobileSafari’s incomplete implementation of full screen mode caused it to not work properly anymore but I guess not 🤷♂️
Yet you responded.When are the voices that continually bray this figure out there unrealistic spouting is being pretty much ignored.
So Red herring argument. The I dont want others to have more choices than me argument.
We can look at android that is open and only one major app choose to leave.
It only affect you if the app you want leaves. If the app you want never would of been in the app store to begin with it does not affect you. In reality that app you want that might of never been there but now has another choice OMG it added more choices for you.
Yet again we get back to being allowed to side load does not affect you if you choose not leave the wall garden.