No desire to read 10 pages of comments that are going to be polarised anyways.
It is easy for Apple support walk them thru a factory reset and if that does not work than reset using DFU mode.
I’m curious how you would break up Apple in a way that would cause less harm than you claim allowing sidelining will have.
The problem there is that the average customer likely won’t fully understand their options or the consequences of those options.
That’s a different story, Google does allow sideloading but prohibits manufacturers from adding alternative Stores, a lawsuit was also filed against google, and many more lawsuits will come. Additionally they made sideloading in a kinda anticompetitive way.
That’s not that different from what’s being discussed. Android users can sideload different apps and app stores, which is what this bill is proposing (at least as far as I understand).
The issue is that would be illegal under the magnuson moss warranty act since Apple has to actually prove the sideloaded app caused the damage not speculate that was the cause of damage.
Passing a bill out of committee on to the full Senate isn’t a milestone?? Interesting take. The bill also passed out of the committee 16-6 with 5 Republicans on board. If you extrapolate the committee vote to the full Senate it would pass 72-28 in the Senate. Now that’s obviously an imperfect approximation, but your bet on having enough “Apple fans in the Senate” would seem to be on fairly shaky ground.
They fully understand it, that’s the typical Apple awkward parenting mindset: Everybody is dumb and unwilling to learn. They probably forgot that they fell approx 1000 times on their ass before they learned to walk.
I don’t care how successful Apple is, I care about whether they’re abusing their position as effectively the sole distributor of iOS software. This legislation regulates Apple, which controls a massive market in the iOS App Store as part of a duopoly, because it has failed to regulate itself despite having been given ample warning and opportunity to resolve the matter on their own terms.
And that doesn’t mean I don’t want my representatives to protect and represent my interests, which is keeping their noses out of areas that are not illegal. So yeah, cast your ballot accordingly.
You can do anything you want with your device. Apple is not obligated to help you.
I think you’re missing my point. If you asked a random iPhone user off the street if they want sideloading and why, they either couldn’t give you an answer or could t articulate their answer. I 100% believe people can learn (we’ve seen it happen over and over again) but giving the general public the choice without heavily educating them first (and even then, who gets to do the educating) is just asking for pain.
Certainly. And based on the committee vote, my view appears to be more popular in the Senate.
It’s also the developers choice to choose the distribution channel they want. Anyway, serious software developers wouldn’t go that way. Look at Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher or at MS Office. It exists to be bought over their site and over the MacAppStore, both distribution channels can coexist, as you can see.
Most developers on the iOS App Store would be insane to leave it unless there is a specific and compelling use case that dictates their departure. On the contrary, macOS has never required developers to use the App Store and has often given developers little reason to migrate to it, what with restrictions that non-App Store apps aren’t subjected to and handing over 15%/30% of your revenue to Apple.
It's up to Congress to determine what conduct is and isn’t illegal with respect to interstate commerce, a power given to them by the Constitution. This is their determining that some conduct that is currently legal should not be because existing antitrust law does not adequately cover the current competitive landscape with respect to Big Tech.
Savvy devs will indeed use multiple distribution channels. Lowest price will be direct from them. Those customers who insist on “Apple’s infallible security” will be able to buy on the App Store at a 15/30% premium.
I guess that’s different take on milestone then. To me, unless the new law is voted and passed, that’s not enough of a milestone. Also, I would not be very confident on that extrapolation either. I will see how the vote goes.
Sure most of them won’t know what sideloading is, simply because the term “sideloading” itself is awkward. Sideloading is just a fancy new debased naming for installing software downloaded normally from the web, wrapped with fictive malware excuses.
Well we don't need TV, cars and arcade under the main Apple umbrella. Breaking this to smaller companies (compared to Apple as-is) will allow other smaller companies to compete. Because Apple TV as a company will have the same budgets and cash available compared to Netflix and others.
