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  • Apple has new App Store rules, business terms, and sideloading conditions for EU developer...

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    EU - Apple: 3-0.

    Thank you EU for making iPhone/iOS a more open environment.
    Now on to repairability 
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  • European Union smacks Apple with $2 billion fine over music streaming

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    avon b7 said:
    This is part of what the EU had to say:
    "Today's decision concludes that Apple's anti-steering provisions amount to unfair trading conditions, in breach of Article 102(a) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU'). These anti-steering provisions are neither necessary nor proportionate for the protection of Apple's commercial interests in relation to the App Store on Apple's smart mobile devices and negatively affect the interests of iOS users, who cannot make informed and effective decisions on where and how to purchase music streaming subscriptions for use on their device.
    Nutshell: EU is arguing that smartphone users only have access to information that's inside the App Store and apps. They're totally ignoring the fact that an iPhone also has access to the internet, social media, phone calls/texts, email and push notifications. Apple doesn't control the content in any of those. The idea that consumers in 2024 have no idea where to get information without the app telling them is TOTALLY BONKERS. 
    Again, the American contributors, believing the 0-meridian runs through Cupertino have a hard time understanding this fine.

    It's not that the iPhone does not allow users to surf on the net to find the information on Spotify's site.
    It's that the App Store is designed in such a way that the information about one product is harder to get than the information about another product.

    And, guess what, it's not Apple Music's info that is harder to get.

    Is that clear enough?

    To be really crystal: as an IPhone buyer, I bought an IPhone: not an Apple products push engine.
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  • iOS 26 is here with Liquid Glass redesign, new Camera, and Apple Intelligence promises

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    I don't agree with the sentiment.

    Liquid Glass is quite different from Aqua.
    Aqua was about being translucent. 

    With Liquid Glass, the context defines the available functions.
    Quite novel to me.
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  • Repair site praises new iPhone 16 line as the most repairable yet

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    Xed said:
    avon b7 said:
    No doubt upcoming EU directives came into play on these changes. 
    Show your work.
    Here you are:

    On Tuesday, [European] Parliament adopted its position on a stronger “right to repair” for consumers, with 590 votes in favour, 15 against, and 15 abstentions. The proposal aims to encourage more sustainable consumption, by making it easier to repair defective goods, reducing waste and supporting the repair sector.

    Within the legal guarantee period, sellers would be required to prioritise repair if it is cheaper or equal in cost to replacing a good, unless the repair is not feasible or inconvenient for the consumer. MEPs also propose to extend the legal guarantee by one year once a product has been fixed.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • EU questions whether Apple has changed anything after its $1.95 billion fine

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    Of course the EU has every right to tell Apple what to do. It’s called the law. And if Apple doesn’t like the EU legislation, then they can call it quits.
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  • Apple debuts $999 iPhone X with OLED Super Retina Display & Face ID authentication

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    To me, the really good news of the evening is twofold:
    - 2 hours longer battery life
    - the fact that X is barely larger than 8 with more screen size than 8+
    Well done on that (especially the latter)
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  • Siri is superpowered with Apple Intelligence

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    I'd just be happy if I don't have to repeat my basic commands like "Call " 25 times before it understands me
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  • Repair site praises new iPhone 16 line as the most repairable yet

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    MplsP said:
    blitz1 said:
    Xed said:
    avon b7 said:
    No doubt upcoming EU directives came into play on these changes. 
    Show your work.
    Here you are:

    On Tuesday, [European] Parliament adopted its position on a stronger “right to repair” for consumers, with 590 votes in favour, 15 against, and 15 abstentions. The proposal aims to encourage more sustainable consumption, by making it easier to repair defective goods, reducing waste and supporting the repair sector.

    Within the legal guarantee period, sellers would be required to prioritise repair if it is cheaper or equal in cost to replacing a good, unless the repair is not feasible or inconvenient for the consumer. MEPs also propose to extend the legal guarantee by one year once a product has been fixed.
    “unless the repair is not feasible or inconvenient for the consumer” - it’s hard to classify any smartphone repair as convenient and I’d argue that the skill involved makes them infeasible for the majority. 
    Apple made it "not feasible" for the consumer.
    Those days are well over.

    Europe had (again) the upper hand - also for the benefit of the US customer
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • EU Apple Pay antitrust action is complete, after NFC opened to competitors

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    Europe 4 (or is it more) - Apple 0
    williamlondon

  • How the UK's Brexit vote to leave Europe affects Apple

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    apple ][ said:
    Perhaps Apple could get an even better deal than with the backstabbing Irish and move their European operations to England instead now? No more harmonized tax rates to abide by, I'm sure Britain will be eager to attract LOTS of big businesses (and with that lower priced Pound too)!
    Good idea!

    England would make a great base for European Operations.

    One other positive outcome for Apple when the EU finally disintegrates, is no more ridiculous EU commissions or EU Jihads and EU lawsuits against Apple.

    Such remark underlines your silliness.
    How could the UK now be the "great base for European Operations".
    The UK just cut itself off from the Single Market.

    For your own good, please educate yourself on the matter before posting any more idiocy. 
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