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Apple forces Patreon to pay 30% of new memberships sold through iOS
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Apple all-in on struggling Matter, to the detriment of HomeKit Accessory Protocol
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Twitter lays off staff including whole ethics team, temporarily closes offices
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Twitter lays off staff including whole ethics team, temporarily closes offices
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Apple updates rules surrounding EU DMA compliance to address developer concerns
A maze of red tape to make it prohibitive. An alternative app store on macOS requires no interaction or input from Apple at all. An example is MacPorts. The real answer here is customers demanding app freedom on iOS and iPadOS from Apple and voting with their dollars if Apple doesn't deliver. The same app freedoms should exist on iOS/iPadOS as has existed on macOS since 1984: 'sideloading' allowed. The very term 'sideloading' is itself a loaded term that presumes an authority that Apple doesn't have, control of YOUR device. It is your device not Apple's. You should be able to load on it whatever app you darn well please. That is still true on the Mac. It should be true for iPhones too. -
Apple explains security & privacy risks of side-loading in detailed new paper
'Side loading' also known, prior to 2007, as installing an application on your computer. The key phrase here being 'your computer'. Who does Apple think they are to deny people the right to install any application they want on THEIR iPhone? Apple's entire case falls apart when you realize the Macintosh can still 'side load' applications to this day. Right-click, open. Annoyed by that? Disable Gatekeeper completely with a command in the Terminal. Why does this 'side loading' persist on the Macintosh? Simple, their customers would not tolerate such computer tyranny. Remember, Gatekeeper was added in to the Macintosh in Snow Leopard. iPhone customers should start to speak up about Apple's heavy handedness on their iPhones. The iPhone's walled garden should be optional just like it is on the Macintosh. Heck, most times I'd choose to stay in the walled garden for security, but when Apple gets heavy handed, like they are today with their outrageous censorship on the App Store and Podcasts, we need an opt out.Bottom-line, this is about maintaining 30% profit on apps and control of people's devices. It is as simple as that. -
Twitter for Mac leaves the Mac App Store, but iPad X is still usable
auxio said:blastdoor said:Twitter has proven amazingly resilient in the face of its malignant owner. I almost never go there anymore but clearly plenty of people do. My hope is that everyone who isn’t a musk fan will leave, but I’m afraid that hope might never be realized . -
Apple updates rules surrounding EU DMA compliance to address developer concerns
The fanboyism here never disappoints. I've been on the Apple train since the mid 90s. Let's call a spade a spade though, Apple dictating to you what can and cannot be on your iPhone is authoritarianism run amok. Today they are not banning things you care about, but what about when they do? It is going to happen. What ground will you have to stand on then? We would have never tolerated this heavy handedness in the 90s or even early 2000s. We should not tolerate it today. Governments and corporations, run by western oligarchs, are out of control censoring to maintain their control, rule, and profits. People across the political spectrum should be very alarmed by this. It is very bad for the people.
To the sky is falling fear mongers about security, question, is the Mac so unsafe to use? Do you really want to make that argument? I am arguing for the exact same security model that keeps the Mac safe be applied to iOS and iPadOS. There really is no excuse not to do so other than power and money. If you're opposed to it you have to concede the Mac is unsafe. It is sick to watch so many 'progressives' defend a large corporations' profits and power. -
Apple drops new Safari bookmark end-to-end encryption
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'Overworked and unhappy' Apple Southampton store staff want to unionize