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I am so sick of this ****. If there isn't a workaround I am switching to android. They give me no other choice.
There is a reading of the DMA (since the text doesn't really correspond to the spirit) that Apple must give a third party the ability to replace Siri with full access to all indexed application data so that they can compete on equal footing. If they want to do it with an alternative to Siri, it would be by having a portion of a third party application always memory resident on a device which is memory and battery constrained. You may be able to see why this would be a bad idea.
 
* not for EU

I am so sick of this ****. If there isn't a workaround I am switching to android. They give me no other choice.

That’s your choice. I don’t doubt that Apple is “stigginit” to the EU for the way they regulate products in the Eurozone.

The EU has the right to regulate business as they see fit. Of course there are unintended consequences to those actions.

Apple has the right to roll out their features as they see fit, and I SUPPOSE a few people will decide to switch to Android and leave Apple all together.

But I suspect the number of people who leave will have little to no impact on the bottom line of one of the most valuable companies in the world.
 
I still don't understand fundamentally why the EU is governing how Apple should run their business. If people want Android features that gives you more features and customization, they can, when looking to buy a phone and weighing up the pros and cons of each device according to their needs, buy an Android. If they want a polished ecosystem, they can buy an iOS device...? Each platform has their own strength points, and the beauty of choice is that people can choose.

That being said, for me personally, I'm happy that iPhone now uses USB-C, but that should've been a change that Apple made. If people were truly pissed off with iPhones (including their stubbornness with lightning and lack of side loading), people would switch and that would push Apple organically to adapt their phones.

They also forced those 💩 new bottle caps on everyone / every business in the EU.
 
I have lost all interest in iOS 18 as long as the most valuable company in the world is unable to design its services to comply with the regulations of the democratic countries in which it operates and instead blackmails governments by instrumentalizing consumers/their citizens against them.

Maybe a company in one of those 'democratic' countries you're so worried about should develop a device that complies with the regulations in question.
 
I still don't understand fundamentally why the EU is governing how Apple should run their business. If people want Android features that gives you more features and customization, they can, when looking to buy a phone and weighing up the pros and cons of each device according to their needs, buy an Android. If they want a polished ecosystem, they can buy an iOS device...? Each platform has their own strength points, and the beauty of choice is that people can choose.

That being said, for me personally, I'm happy that iPhone now uses USB-C, but that should've been a change that Apple made. If people were truly pissed off with iPhones (including their stubbornness with lightning and lack of side loading), people would switch and that would push Apple organically to adapt their phones.
I understand why governments, Apple ecosystem businesses, and niche consumers want to make decisions for Apple. What irks me is that their actions can and often do negatively affect the rest of the consumers and they naively believe it doesn’t or they don't care.
 
I love it. Delay everything in the EU by a few years. They have stupid laws and don’t believe in capitalism. Let them accept exactly what they have and get new features in a few years. This is what happens when you try to regulate private companies and every rule. They are imposing rules in a free market. On a device nobody is forced to buy. For an App Store, created by a third party. Screw the EU!
 
I still don't understand fundamentally why the EU is governing how Apple should run their business. If people want Android features that gives you more features and customization, they can, when looking to buy a phone and weighing up the pros and cons of each device according to their needs, buy an Android. If they want a polished ecosystem, they can buy an iOS device...? Each platform has their own strength points, and the beauty of choice is that people can choose.

That being said, for me personally, I'm happy that iPhone now uses USB-C, but that should've been a change that Apple made. If people were truly pissed off with iPhones (including their stubbornness with lightning and lack of side loading), people would switch and that would push Apple organically to adapt their phones.
Yes because

1) if business use shiet connectors that spam and polluted the EU environment like trash lightning. They are out

2) if business try to lock in and monopoly , not allow customer to “own” what they bought, they are out too. Because it leads to e-waste . Look at those in-fixable battery iPod nano. Now they are all e waste because the battery swollen breaks the case.

3) that’s why my friend, business needs to be governed otherwise business will keep destroying ng this planet.
 
I love it. Delay everything in the EU by a few years. They have stupid laws and don’t believe in capitalism. Let them accept exactly what they have and get new features in a few years. This is what happens when you try to regulate private companies and every rule. They are imposing rules in a free market. On a device nobody is forced to buy. For an App Store, created by a third party. Screw the EU!
Haha. Wait for the apple stock to go down due to lack of sales in EU. Poor US people can’t even afford iPhone now. What will happen to your apple share ? It will delay your profit for the next 10 years .
 
iPhone mirroring is one of the best features Apple has announced recently. It solves all the problems of iPhone apps on Mac where developers don’t allow it.
 
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Well that settles it. I was going to wait until the 2nd developer beta to install iOS 18 having already installed it on my iPad but if they are coming out with it on Monday and it’ll have iPhone mirroring then I might as well install both the iOS and MacOS betas and rip that band aid off.
 
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