Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps
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Mac is only a safe platform due to obscurity.
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.
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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.
If Apple cashes in less than 30% next iPhone will be like:
Sorry, we can’t include a box OR wire for
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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.
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.
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Except breaking end-to-end encrypted messaging. That’s the one sore spot.
The EU like any large government is filled with people of varying quality. Some of them are absolutely amazing at their jobs and some of them can barely operate at light switches.
Normally whenever some dumb tech related regulation comes in you usually find it's being pushed by the idiots. You can usually tell by reading the text of the legislation and by the end of it you will have come up with about 300 problems.
A good example of this is reading the Tracking Cookies legislation (bad) and the GDPR legislation (good), the difference in the size of the text of the bill is visually apparent.
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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.
As opposed to windows, macOS will effectively refuse to run any software that is not signed and notarized by Apple themselves.
You can put Windows in strict mode but it makes the computer virtually unusable. The other thing been is it there are techniques that attackers can use to bypass these checks thus making the signatures irrelevant anyway.
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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.
You can also use an immutable Linux distro (SteamOS being the most popular) and install software with flatpak, which is sandboxed using bubblewrap.
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As a general rule, if a corpo is against something the EU does, it means your government should do it too because it's a good thing.
Yeah, but I still feel like the majority of people are stupid. That's kind of how apple got such a huge market share to begin with. People just happily locked themselves in to a closed garden with shit for options.
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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.
I’m pretty sure that can be turned off in security stings.
If not, you can hold down control or command when launching the so the first time to have the option to run the software anyway.
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Is there a way to send and receive SMS and send/receive phone calls through a computer? Like if I wanted to ditch a phone for a cyber deck could I? And just use like a mobile hotspot for Internet?
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Is there a way to send and receive SMS and send/receive phone calls through a computer? Like if I wanted to ditch a phone for a cyber deck could I? And just use like a mobile hotspot for Internet?
I used this service breifly a while ago. Not enough to say whether it's good or not, but I remember it working just fine.
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As an Australian, do I have anything I can do to help make sure that these regulations are implemented?
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As an Australian, do I have anything I can do to help make sure that these regulations are implemented?
Tell your rep(s) you're in favor of it, and if you have a time, visit in person.
