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Wesley Hilliard said:

You can turn off AI notifications on a per app basis, as was stated in the article. Developers can't opt out by default today, and maybe that can come in a later update, but users do have control over the feature. I personally don't understand the outrage towards this feature. I find it quite useful.

You don't understand why BBC is upset that Apple Intelligence is mischaracterizing BBC articles?  How would you feel if someone summarized this very article as "Apple refuses to fix BBC article summaries"?

This is the app some FBI personnel were allegedly found to be using.  Brilliant.

AppleInsider said:

The reasoning for the switch in material is unknown,

fred1 said:

Apple pay’s millions in bribes to lawmakers every year, also known as “lobbying”, why not give a mil to the president. I hope he has a good seat at the inauguration.

Right.  If graft is gonna be legal and "OK" for congresscritters, then it oughta be OK for presidents too, however big a dumpster fire they are.

The solution is simple.  Pass a law that requires U.S. corporations to reveal any such demands by foreign governments to the public.

Apple's stance against porn apps is purely for PR and political protection purposes.  It has little or nothing to do with principles, it's just a "shield" against those who would inevitably crawl out of the woodwork to claim Apple was deliberately eroding society by allowing porn apps.  The fact that the internet is full of porn, and Safari, among others, allows access to all of it is "out of their control".

avon b7 said:

beowulfschmidt said:

If they had said, "ATT is fine, but Apple has to follow the same rules, so since you didn't, we're fining you," that would have been pretty legit.

Instead they said, "ATT is fine, nothing wrong with it.  But we're going to fine you anyway.  Because we can, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it."

The Reuters article is a little clearer on that point. 

"Coeuré told reporters the regulator had not spelled out how Apple should change its app, but that it was up to the company to make sure it now complied with the ruling.

The compliance process could take some time, he added, because Apple was waiting for rulings on regulators in Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania who are also investigating the ATT tool."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-antitrust-regulator-fines-apple-150-million-euros-over-privacy-tool-2025-03-31/

On the size of the fine, that was also tackled head on (it was proportional):

"We apply competition law in an apolitical manner," Benoit Coeure told a press conference."

While maximum fines can be up to 10% of global revenue (and it's global as a dissuasory measure), the fines still have to be proportional and take into account other factors such as reincidence. 

"We're not going to tell you how to fix your app to avoid this fine, but you'd better change it, or we're going to keep fining you."

"Bring me a rock.  No, not that one."

ihatescreennames said:

I read somewhere a few months ago that if you choose Safari you have to choose it again after every OS update, but if you choose a different browser that one will persist after an OS update. Safari is the only choice that will require you to choose it over and over via the browser selection screen. I haven’t experienced that myself as I’m not in the EU. 

Another thing I don’t fully understand is why this is necessary when, from what I understand, Chrome has a much higher browser percentage than Safari does. Seems odd to force the choice screen when users obviously already know they have options. 

It's necessary because it's Apple, and Apple MUST be made to obey.

cpsro said:

Lack of a blood oxygen sensor will be a killer for many people.

Me for one.  I have sleep apnea, and use the O2 sensor to monitor over night.  If Apple and Masimo don't pull their heads out, my 7 will have to last at least another year.