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This Free App Unlocks AirPods Features on Android Devices
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The EU is giving away nothing. Apple is opening up their platform to 3rd party services as required by law.
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Correct and the law(or the eu which is playing Robin Hood) is making Apple give away their ip. I feel like this has been a discussion point over the last two years and thousands of posts.
The EU is not making Apple do anything. Apple has every choice in this to exercise their "pullout game" like the lot of you like to argue.
You do know the story of Robin Hood is that of rich people hoarding food for themselves while leaving the poor to starve right? Robs the rich to give to the poor, opposing the tyrannical rule of unjust lords and sheriffs. So even in your own defense of Apple you are calling them tyrannical overlords who are hoarding riches for themselves and leaving the poor to starve.
Fascinating.
No matter what exceptional product the iPods could have been, they would never significantly shift users from Windows to Mac, because Microsoft's monopoly on desktops was (and is) too strong.
On the other hand, a move from iPhone to Android is much simpler and painless (honestly, from someone who has used Pixel until 2 months ago, there's no clear winner), unless you're ensnared in the "walled garden". Making Airpods fully compatible with Android phones would remove one brick from the wall.
The eu is absolutely making Apple do this. I feel all american tech should leave the eu and let eu tech fill the gap. But in reality none of that is happening and the eu knows it and is forcing Apple to give away its ip.
Yes it’s taking from one and giving to another. Exactly what the DMA is doing.
Absolute bollocks. Apple could shut down their EU operations today..they are not forced to stay.
We all know they won't because with Cook at the helm, the money they get from the EU > anything and everything else.
You’re right, cook won’t give up a shekel. But good for him. Our portfolios benefit.
If EU tech stopped serving American companies Apple would seize to exist.
None of that is happening because that was not even a possibility but fanatic ramblings on forums. In reality, a country determines how businesses gets to operate within it, not the other way around.
So the EU being Robin Hood is taking from Apple the tyrannical overlord in your analogy, to give to the poor 3rd party services.
Even though the bolded is phrased in a sarcastic, hyperbolic manner the essence of it is true.
Did you not use Robin Hood as your analogy? I'm just using your own analogy. What fascinates me is that you are on the side of the tyrant in your Robin Hood analogy.
What fascinates me is you seem to be on the side of the tyrant, the eu, playing Robin Hood euphemistically.
At any rate, Apple plays most things close to their best.
You think Apple’s stock would tank if AirPods worked better with non-Apple hardware?
Of course some of the same people (yeah looking at you Neil Cybart) saying Apple shouldn’t do X would be the first to say why X was a great idea if Apple stared doing it.
Yeah Apple might be interested in stopping this since it's on rooted devices. Could pose a security risk to Find My.
Not sure how, considering you can just wipe and claim airpods without having to remove from Find My, unlike iphone/ipad/etc.
Not sure why would want to steal a strangers earbuds, though... 🤢
So which features work without rooting? The article only says that OnePlus/Oppo users have access to some features without rooting. Many of us are on Samsung devices.