Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat
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They have been this way from day 1. They called it "end to end control".
They at some point boasted that their stuff can be used without hoops and intentional impediments. In Hypercard and such times.
It seems crazy, but they even paid authors of kinda sci-fi or futuristic stories featuring their hardware.
They made it seem they are almost an anarchist company.
They also, which is even harder to believe now, aimed at advanced usage. As in - "works out of the box" and "even a child can use it" and "everything graphical", but at the same time in that spirit, which Hotline and KDX and PureData still reminisce. A user-friendly application which is not dumb.
It's actually useful to see, to understand that modern commercial claims of "user-friendly == dumb" are aimed at nothing else than centralized control and obscure shit under the hood.
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I’ve been saying for the past two years that Apple should stop doing business in the EU, but every time that I bring that up someone points out the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out.
Gross.
the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out
This has nothing to do with anything, really. It's not like, because I don't sell in the US I can't use American made steel or something.
The actual reason why Apple, and every other company, doesn't want to leave the EU (China for that matter) despite increasingly stringent regulations, it's because the EU represents a huge portion of their revenue and leaving would mean losing billions upon billions, all in the hopes of saving millions.
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Oh the Trump playbook.
Nah his is even stupider.
Delay, delay delay
... Until you can quash it..... Which I guess if cheating so I suppose you're right
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Governments are going about this the wrong way. The problem isn’t with app stores. The problem is that you can’t install a different OS on your phone (or current Mac, or iPad).
The problem is that you don't own the right to use your own device the way you see fit, and are instead locked into systems you can't escape from.
You should be able to freely install the software you like, be that an OS, a third party app or even your own program, and you should be able to use all the features of your devices, freely, without being locked out due to the app or accessory not being first party.
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They at some point boasted that their stuff can be used without hoops and intentional impediments. In Hypercard and such times.
It seems crazy, but they even paid authors of kinda sci-fi or futuristic stories featuring their hardware.
They made it seem they are almost an anarchist company.
They also, which is even harder to believe now, aimed at advanced usage. As in - "works out of the box" and "even a child can use it" and "everything graphical", but at the same time in that spirit, which Hotline and KDX and PureData still reminisce. A user-friendly application which is not dumb.
It's actually useful to see, to understand that modern commercial claims of "user-friendly == dumb" are aimed at nothing else than centralized control and obscure shit under the hood.
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How many real life users are going to install software from somewhere other than the built in app store on their phone?
-WhatsApp is now exclusive to the Meta iOS App Store.-
That many real life users.
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Yeah, except their UI design was somehow very overloading. Very nice, especially for 90s, but nausea-inducing purely physically.
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The problem is that the stock OS is a walled garden. No common user will flash their phone.
I have an idea - make this issue solved via direct popular vote. Ranked choice, variants range from "Apple owns your butts" to "Apple should be punished with its monthly margin for failing to deliver hourly orgasms with its devices" to "Apple open sources and PD's everything or Apple leaves".
They'll be interested themselves in making the OS as convenient for normal usage as possible. Including the walled garden part. OK, just a thought experiment.
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I’ve been saying for the past two years that Apple should stop doing business in the EU, but every time that I bring that up someone points out the manufacturer of the chip making machine is based in the EU therefore no one can pull out.
Gross.
Apple doesn’t buy those machines, TSMC does. Apple buys the chips from them.
So I don’t think ASML being in the EU would stop apple from pulling out.
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Governments are going about this the wrong way. The problem isn’t with app stores. The problem is that you can’t install a different OS on your phone (or current Mac, or iPad).
Last time I thought you could install Asahi on current Macs unless Apple started blocking that and I didn't know.
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People are made that way, I don't understand why everyone hates corporations so much.
People aren't made that way, but competion incentivizes that.
Why oh why would people be against the very institutions where such behaviours are reinforced?
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I'm waiting for the EU to eventually say "Ok nevermind, this is clearly a company that isn't going to be compliant. If not compliant by X date this company will no longer be allowed to operate here"
Or a hella massive fine for blatant waste of regulators time plus non-compliance.
That's not happening.
