The edict was intentionally vague and overbroad. It’s a law that establishes no measurable compliance guidelines, while providing absolutely no limitations on what the EU can decide counts as a violation retroactively.…
I’m struggling to understand why controversial blog entries and erotic fiction need a secure machine.
Meanwhile, my company halved our sick time a couple of years ago, and just last week announced that they were eliminating dedicated sick time entirely starting the first of next year. Want to take a sick day? Spend your…
Uh, Hypervisor still exists, and is still supported: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor
No, they want installs on-demand once you select the browser, which ties into a subsequent demand that browsers be able to be downloaded directly from the source or an alternative App Store.
> Because the only reason I can think of is whining about not being the default. That is exactly the reason. The charitable reason is so that the browser, upon launch, can ask the user if they want to make it the…
> All of these need to get broken up until we have at least a half-dozen competing companies in those spaces. You seem to be forgetting, we had your “at least a half-dozen competing companies" situation in the past. It…
> Why not just let people do what they do with other files and leave it on their desktop. Once upon a time, upon seeing a disk image open with an app icon, a certain quantity of people would choose to run the app…
It’s being done in response to Elon Musk being caught liking some questionable things. Now people (e.g., Musk) can like anti-Semitic and pro-white supremacy and pro-Nazi content all they want without fear of being…
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Apple is often “behind” because it believes that generally, technological advancements are subordinate to product function and user benefit. It generally doesn’t do something just because it’s hip, cool, or trendy. it…
> It's not wrong for Epic to support changes that also happen to benefit everyone while also prioritizing their own goals. No, but it’s wrong for Epic to position those changes as part of a battle to ensure everybody…
No it doesn't, but leading up to the trial, Epic generally and Sweeney specifically made a _huge_ PR push that he was waging this battle on Apple (and Google) on behalf of all developers everywhere who are getting…
> Epic is accusing Google (and Apple) of being monopolies since it wants to play in the app store space. I think that’s a secondary effect. The primary reason is so Epic gets to keep all the money it makes on digital…
Putting aside the bugginess of the existing software, this litany of complaints mostly boils down to, “I wish Apple would make the macOS equivalent to the Microsoft Surface.” This is a wishlist for a device that lets…
Good. The only downside that I can see to this settlement is that it isn’t able to set a legal precedent.
So does that mean that if Firefox or Safari don’t implement something, but it exists in a polyfill, that Firefox or Safari should be treated as if it has been implemented natively? Otherwise, what I’m reading is, “It’s…
While Chrome _does_ respect existing standards, sometimes to the point of pedantry, it also happily rolls out designed-for-our-needs web technologies and APIs into its majority-share browser immediately, only starting…
> I wish there were a setting to never use an in app web browser on iOS. I get that, but by the same token, a thoughtful app maker can provide that option to you today (I have apps on my device that expicitly have that…
> Apple must update SFSafariViewController (Apple’s system provided in-app browser for iOS) to respect the user's choice of default browser. I don’t understand this ask. If the idea is that in-app browsers are…
Why not post a direct link to the video that the tweet embeds?
There’s no violation here. The injunction said they couldn’t prohibit linking out; it didn’t prohibit Apple from continuing to charge money. Whether they should is a related, but separate, issue that is not relevant to…
> WHY does Apple, parading around as a pompous paragon of privacy, even allow this crap? Good alliteration. Apple doesn’t enforce what the app does with app data. Apple makes sure that if the app uses a platform API…
> this is exclusivity on individual customers. Yes, individual customers who choose to buy an iPhone. It’s not like Apple is the only phone manufacturer in the world, and the iPhone is only barely dominant in the United…
If you’re suggesting there’s some sort of data- or usage- mining of Spotify’s app and/or app integrations with the OS going on, you’re going to have to provide much more evidence than just the allegation of “Apple can…
The edict was intentionally vague and overbroad. It’s a law that establishes no measurable compliance guidelines, while providing absolutely no limitations on what the EU can decide counts as a violation retroactively.…
I’m struggling to understand why controversial blog entries and erotic fiction need a secure machine.
Meanwhile, my company halved our sick time a couple of years ago, and just last week announced that they were eliminating dedicated sick time entirely starting the first of next year. Want to take a sick day? Spend your…
Uh, Hypervisor still exists, and is still supported: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor
No, they want installs on-demand once you select the browser, which ties into a subsequent demand that browsers be able to be downloaded directly from the source or an alternative App Store.
> Because the only reason I can think of is whining about not being the default. That is exactly the reason. The charitable reason is so that the browser, upon launch, can ask the user if they want to make it the…
> All of these need to get broken up until we have at least a half-dozen competing companies in those spaces. You seem to be forgetting, we had your “at least a half-dozen competing companies" situation in the past. It…
> Why not just let people do what they do with other files and leave it on their desktop. Once upon a time, upon seeing a disk image open with an app icon, a certain quantity of people would choose to run the app…
It’s being done in response to Elon Musk being caught liking some questionable things. Now people (e.g., Musk) can like anti-Semitic and pro-white supremacy and pro-Nazi content all they want without fear of being…
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Apple is often “behind” because it believes that generally, technological advancements are subordinate to product function and user benefit. It generally doesn’t do something just because it’s hip, cool, or trendy. it…
> It's not wrong for Epic to support changes that also happen to benefit everyone while also prioritizing their own goals. No, but it’s wrong for Epic to position those changes as part of a battle to ensure everybody…
No it doesn't, but leading up to the trial, Epic generally and Sweeney specifically made a _huge_ PR push that he was waging this battle on Apple (and Google) on behalf of all developers everywhere who are getting…
> Epic is accusing Google (and Apple) of being monopolies since it wants to play in the app store space. I think that’s a secondary effect. The primary reason is so Epic gets to keep all the money it makes on digital…
Putting aside the bugginess of the existing software, this litany of complaints mostly boils down to, “I wish Apple would make the macOS equivalent to the Microsoft Surface.” This is a wishlist for a device that lets…
Good. The only downside that I can see to this settlement is that it isn’t able to set a legal precedent.
So does that mean that if Firefox or Safari don’t implement something, but it exists in a polyfill, that Firefox or Safari should be treated as if it has been implemented natively? Otherwise, what I’m reading is, “It’s…
While Chrome _does_ respect existing standards, sometimes to the point of pedantry, it also happily rolls out designed-for-our-needs web technologies and APIs into its majority-share browser immediately, only starting…
> I wish there were a setting to never use an in app web browser on iOS. I get that, but by the same token, a thoughtful app maker can provide that option to you today (I have apps on my device that expicitly have that…
> Apple must update SFSafariViewController (Apple’s system provided in-app browser for iOS) to respect the user's choice of default browser. I don’t understand this ask. If the idea is that in-app browsers are…
Why not post a direct link to the video that the tweet embeds?
There’s no violation here. The injunction said they couldn’t prohibit linking out; it didn’t prohibit Apple from continuing to charge money. Whether they should is a related, but separate, issue that is not relevant to…
> WHY does Apple, parading around as a pompous paragon of privacy, even allow this crap? Good alliteration. Apple doesn’t enforce what the app does with app data. Apple makes sure that if the app uses a platform API…
> this is exclusivity on individual customers. Yes, individual customers who choose to buy an iPhone. It’s not like Apple is the only phone manufacturer in the world, and the iPhone is only barely dominant in the United…
If you’re suggesting there’s some sort of data- or usage- mining of Spotify’s app and/or app integrations with the OS going on, you’re going to have to provide much more evidence than just the allegation of “Apple can…