As an Australian, my government can go for it. None of the tech companies have appreciated the Australian government's attempts to regulate them (e.g. trying to make Google and Meta pay for using our journalism).

That said, we have had idiots in power from time to time that definitely have worked against us, usually arguing the "security over privacy" nonsense (metadata collection laws, encryption backdoor legislation, etc.).

Have they looked at their own app store?

Except breaking end-to-end encrypted messaging. That’s the one sore spot.

Apple to Australianseveryone: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

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Their reasons for not opening the App Store aren’t even good logical reasons like it would make the platform unsafe but then they claim the Mac is a safe platform. That’s what makes it so insulting.

I’d be less frustrated with them if they were just honest and said it’s about the money.

Happy cake day!

I'd be happy for the Australian government to take them to task over this one. But I'm afraid you've fallen for Murdoch propaganda with the journalism thing.

They weren't "using our journalism". They provide a direct benefit to the news organisations. It's a mostly symbiotic relationship, with people going to Google and Facebook because it's a good way to find news that interests them, and news organisations being funnelled traffic directly to them for free. But honestly, if money should be flowing in any direction, it's to Google and Meta. The financial benefit for news organisations of the existing relationship is far greater for news organisations than it is for Google and Meta. People would still be Googling things and sharing on Facebook even if news didn't make up part of that.

Jeff Jarvis is a great thinker and communicator in this space, and he moderates a great discussion on the topic here. About 34 minutes into the video they hear from a QUT professor who is pretty scathing towards the NMBC.

Unpopular opinion, but if I wanted multiple app stores (and all the associated benefits and risks) then I would have opted for an Android.

The walled garden approach works for me, and I don’t want to be inconvenienced and my data put at risk because a particular, necessary app is only available through a 3rd party platform.

Now, Apple being forced to reduce the % of app sales down from 30% to a more reasonable number I am all for.

and also introducing hardware backdoors, courtesy of Going Dark

Apple "opinion" -> discarded.

It's the "Apple Way"

As much as I dig at Apple, this is a fair observation. However I will say that I have Android and have never actually used a 3rd party app store or felt the need to.

Mac is only a safe platform due to obscurity.

Apple has always said this about their users. Too stupid to allow choices outside of a few curated options.

I choose the highway.

I want to hard agree with Apple that people are, in fact, too stupid to choose their own apps, but not following Apple's greedy logic.

Look at the top apps and sites people use. The tech billionaires. It's stupid as hell

If you pay for a device, you should be able to do whatever you want with it. Apple having so much control over it means that you don't fully own it.

Same. I agree that people are too stupid to know what apps they should use. But that also includes those using some of apples closed down, limited apps and features haha

To be fair that's not really true. Gatekeeper is deeply integrated into the OS and is extremely strict.

As opposed to windows, macOS will effectively refuse to run any software that is not signed and notarized by Apple themselves.

I'm not a fan of this behaviour but that's the way it is.

If Apple cashes in less than 30% next iPhone will be like:

Sorry, we can’t include a box OR wire for savings the wellbeing of the environment

I use F-droid to get my open source apps. Much more trustworthy than Google play. It's my first stop for anything I'm looking for.