I’m not expecting much of a change to pricing, and I’m fine with that. It’s all the apps Apple has been blocking for all these years that I’m interested in. Particularly Firefox with its own engine, Google Assistant as the default voice assistant on iOS, and Steam as an actual distribution and installation method where we can buy iOS apps on Steam and play them on our phones.
It’s cute you think it’s only the Republicans who are beholden to business lobbying.
Those IAPs look gacha as fuck.
I’m counting down the days. Apple has until March. I can’t believe they’re leaving it to this late. They’ve had years to roll this out and they’re waiting until the last minute. They better have a BULLET PROOF rollout or the EU can and probably will fine them $33B for non-compliance. “Whoopsie we have bugs” won’t cut it after this many years of notice. They’re playing with fire.
FRAND doesn’t apply here. Even if it did, FRAND would require Apple grant access to iOS. The opposite of what you’re claiming. I think the EU knows a little bit more about their laws than you do.
People don’t realize this. This is probably the end of any quality indie developer apps.
Maybe you haven’t been on the App Store lately, but it’s a wasteland of ad-supported shit and subscription garbage. It has been many years since we’ve been able to mock Android for their poor quality apps.
Further, people can already easily pirate iOS apps on their iPhone. I don’t see this change moving the needle much.
No, competing stores will be a full native app, just as the Digital Markets Act requires.
It is yet to be seen what competitors will charge, however one thing is a universal constant: competition usually brings prices down. Apple makes enormous profits on that 30%. This leaves from for competitors to charge much less and still earn enormous profits.
As for Apple charging a yearly fee to developers, the DMA explicitly prevents that.
iGPU just bypasses the dGPU. That shouldn’t be necessary.
Effective negotiations happen when both sides bully each other. It is hard to say whether the car company with revenue 16% the size of the entire nation of Sweden, or a few thousand workers, have more bargaining power. I guess the first one to blink loses.
Depends how much you care about your data and what your backup plan is. Mine is unRAID with two parity drives, meaning I can lose two drives in the NAS without losing any data. Of course my house might burn down so I back up the REALLY important stuff to the cloud as well. Given this I don’t care about consumer grade SMR drives, so I buy the cheapest.
The Nordic employer-employee dynamic is fascinating. Did you know that there isn’t really a minimum wage in the Nordics? Neither did I! Despite this, workers are paid and treated well. Because of unions. In fact, the system works so well that Denmark has been resisting the EU’s demands to instate a minimum wage. At the behest of unions! Workers in the Nordics generally take matters into their own hands. In some respects it works really well, because the dispute is handled between interested parties. People who have deep working knowledge of the situation. I think it’s much more effective and flexible than getting the government involved, which tends to take ham-fisted action far too slowly. At the heart of it is a very liberal principle: you can’t force someone to work for you. That’s slavery. Everyone has the right to not work. Of course, Tesla has the right to fire those workers. But then the entire workforce is entitled to stop working at the same time. It’s a great example of a company having a bargaining partner with equal bargaining power on the other side. This doesn’t really ever happen in America, or really most other countries, which is why Musk is so confused. He’s about to learn that bullying unions in the Nordics doesn’t work.
Are you forgetting that Australia isn’t Somalia? They have laws and regulations around competition. If Apple wants to do business in Australia they have to follow the law. “But I don’t want to!” isn’t a good argument.
I really think Apple screwed the pooch on this one. They had a decade to open up iOS in a more controlled way. They did the opposite, locking out apps on competitive grounds, opening themselves up for obvious antitrust action. Now the decision is going to be out of their hands around the world, and the legislation is far more onerous.
As an EU citizen I cannot WAIT for the DMA to come into effect. I’m genuinely excited to see all the interesting new apps and the creativity which will be allowed to flourish again on the platform.
Much cheaper, more abundant base resources, potentially 3x more charge cycles for similar degradation, much safer, higher temperature efficiency range, faster charging.
Good lord I hesitate to think of the average iPhone user who hears about this, tries it, and winds up with literal vermin and spiders cascading out of it like the masks in Halloween 3.
How the fuck would one literally have vermin and spiders “cascading” out of their iPhone if they installed an application outside the App Store? Like how would that even work? Some dude drives out to your house and objects spider eggs into the phone? The physics alone don’t make any sense.
Apple’s new legal case takes issue with specific decisions taken by the European Commission under the DMA, but the exact details of the challenge have not yet been publicized. The case is expected to include an argument against the App Store being included on the EU’s list of gatekeeper platforms, which requires app sideloading to be an option to allow users to avoid the App Store if they wish.
This is not correct. Apple has so far not disputed iOS being classed as a core platform service. This means they are not disputing the requirement to open up iOS for competing app stores. However they have disputes the App Store becoming a core platform service. This would place additional requirements on the App Store around which applications they accept and decline, prominence of their own applications relative to competitors, and a host of others like marketing transparency.
This is Apple throwing as much as they can at the wall to see what sticks.
Yeah the first time someone dies because they haven’t paid their Apple subscription will look very bad.
Changing voice assistants is explicitly required in the DMA. There’s a lot in there in addition to sideloading. That’s why I’m surprised they’re leaving it to the last minute. It’s a huge change.