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  • Brazil gives Apple 90 days to enable third-party app marketplaces on iOS

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    “CheeseFreeze said:
    jfreedle2 said:
    Side loading is moronic and stupid, and only an idiot would suggest it. I feel sorry that some idiot is attempting to “require” it. 
    I guess I’m that “stupid guy”, and with me all EU citizens. And you know what? The experience has been amazing so far. “
    I suspect not a lot of side loading is happening in the EU or elsewhere, even Android side loading is a minor part of app usage on that platform.

    In the end, side loading is about money and where that money goes - to Apple for providing and developing the platform or software developers for developing their products. Both deserve compensation. Consumers gain control but probably won’t save money and, to the extent that Apple loses money to developers and seeks new revenue streams from consumers, may pay more.
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  • Apple's study proves that LLM-based AI models are flawed because they cannot reason

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    LLMs aren’t sentient. They look for patterns in the query and then apply algorithms to those patterns to identify details that then are used to search databases or perform functions. LLMs can’t learn. If the data they search contains errors, they will report wrong answers. Essentially they are speech recognition engines paired with limited data retrieval and language generation capabilities.
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  • Apple Intelligence & iPhone mirroring aren't coming to EU because of the DMA

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    michelb76 said:
    The EU accounts for a quarter of worldwide sales. It will come to the EU at some point. 
    Probably. But Apple will sell iPhones in the EU even without AI. The EU’s habit of issuing massive fines doesn’t help either. So what if a quarter of your sales are in the EU if the fines add up to the point that Apple isn’t making money there. 

    It’s better for Apple to just eliminate features to avoid the fines and accept slightly lower sales than to boost sales and be fined by over protective EU regulators.
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  • EU might fine Apple for failure to comply with DMA, for real this time

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    sirdir said:
    phillyfanatic09 said:
    In the end, Europe could simply price Apple out of their market. Apple is a for profit company. If the fines exceed Apple’s profits in Europe, why do business there?
    They could, you know, comply with the law.
    I’m sure Apple will try. The problem of course is that the DMA is broadly written, variably enforced and allows extremely massive fines. Suppose Apple faces fines far exceeding profits in Europe with no clear path forward other than to give free rides to any company the EU blesses? Again, why do business under those conditions?
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  • EU might fine Apple for failure to comply with DMA, for real this time

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    In the end, Europe could simply price Apple out of their market. Apple is a for profit company. If the fines exceed Apple’s profits in Europe, why do business there?
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  • EU to settle Apple Pay NFC probe after Apple's concessions

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    It’s hard to see how consumers benefit from allowing banks to set up their own wallets. It is, however, easy to see how banks benefit.

    It will be interesting to look at Curve’s wallet. Can I put concert tickets, ID cards, boarding passes and other non-financial items into their wallet? If so, will they properly safeguard my information? If not, do I need to use multiple wallets and how do I choose between them?

    For all of this extra headache, I get ???? benefits? Still waiting to hear on that.
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  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    Essentially, yes. Because Microsoft is forced by the EU to allow all external partners equal access to push their security updates, this means mistakes like this can and will happen.
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  • Apple, Meta ignore EU artificial intelligence regulatory initiative for now

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    Apple is a for profit company that can enter or leave markets as they see fit. If they don’t want to deploy AI in Europe that’s a business decision. It may be good or bad but it’s their right.
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  • UK secretly orders Apple to let it spy on iPhone users worldwide

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    DAalseth said:
    Stabitha_Christie said:
    Xed said:
    Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services.  I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.
    By that logic, they need to pull out of the USA immediately. 
    Because Apple is in the US that means they should prop up fascism and a police state?
    Not directed at you personally, but people need to learn what fascism is. Fascism is a type of authoritarianism but not authoritarianism is fascism. 

    Fascism is a far-right system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

    The U.K. is capitalist, and we can certainly argue that this would be a stringent movement control the rest of the definition doesn't fit at all. There U.K. isn't governed by the far-right, it isn't a dictatorship, there isn't violent suppression of opposition and the list goes on. So, yeah, not fascism at all 
    “Agreed, the UK isn’t there. The US however…”
    While what Trump is doing is disturbing, illegal and authoritarian, he is not a fascist. All of the points made by the original poster still apply in the US.
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