Europe accuses Apple of preventing devs from telling users about world outside The European Commission has published preliminary findings that accuse Apple of breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by preventing developers from telling customers about options outside the App Store. The Commission – part of the executive arm of the European Union – also opened a separate investigation into Apple's new …
Time to place your bets! Which is more likely: AI superintelligence in 3 years which is 10,000 times human intelligence, or Apple responds to El Reg's request for comment. If I read an article saying either one has happened, I will just assume it was written by a hallucinating AI.
Just be careful, you would not want the Gambling Commission to have to investigate you:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/25/election-betting-fifth-tory-investigated-in-growing-scandal
(Tories and Labour mentioned in the article.)
Oh a lot of the fan boys at MacRumours were screaching and screamling like banshees today.
Apple should leave the EU. Europeans don't understand. Blah blah blah. I'm an Apple user. I'm in Europe. I don't care for the shitty way they are developing at headlong speed and their games are seriously getting me to "think different" about things when my phone etc need a renew.
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Based on your mention I dropped in to check out the screaming banshees.
I loved one comment:
"...unless there are EU regulations against it, there is nothing stopping some entrepreneurally-minded individual or company from stepping in to offer an equal or better product at an equal or better price. That is an environment for competition.
Because 'competition' is offering a new phone. Unable to comprehend the concept that 'competition' in a marketplace happens at *all* levels, both vertically and horizontally, and that squashing competition in an App Store does NOT equate to creating an entirely new phone product in order to mitigate the App Store inequity. That's what, in the U.S. at least, the Sherman Act was created for, a concept that 'But they can do this!' does not equate to separate-but-equal.
Sigh. I don't know if it's just corporatism-fu or simple and willful ignorance there.
When you've been beaten into submission, err brainwashed into believing, try that again, have become the very antithesis of the 1984 Big Brother ad campaign are used to believing that the products are special and that permits and forgives any action, you don't bother pulling your head out of the sand listening to others, who live in reality.
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And yes, [we] MS users have some of that abuse going on as well. But, as I'm into BDSM anyway, I'm used to it!! LOL
They treat laws as optional as they are one of the biggest companies on the planet by capital. First the USB-C requirement, then message interoperability, development for EU apps being ringfenced, now this, amongst many others on that road of minimal compliance that has to be dragged out of them.
I expect apple to back down (again), but in a barely complying kind of way. They'll announce that only the most expensive of the iphone, ipad and mac lines can install apps outside of the store as they have to run extra checks on the device to make sure it's safe and anything but the most expensive can't handle it.
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