dysamoria

I don’t usually side with tech geek rhetoric, but I think Margrethe Vestager does not have a full awareness of the depth of complexities in the potential consequences with the demand to allow third-party app installs or app stores. iOS devices aren’t desktop computers and that’s a good thing. They should stay much more like appliances than desktop computers.

In what ways will the OS need to be opened to allow third-party app installs, and how will it be compromised?

Who’s going to moderate a third-party App Store to ensure the same level of privacy & security? Apple themselves can’t even be bothered to do a great job, and they’re the ones with the most financial incentive to do it.

How many third-party app stores will be expected to avoid this particular criticism of Apple’s own systems? If any app can be installed, then does that negate needing third-party stores? How does install & uninstall get managed differently between the two without compromising the single path simplicity for current users?

There are reasons to go after Apple, but this is not one of them. Go after the endless expansion of subscriptions & services. Go after the diworsification. Go after the pricing. Mandate a percentage of post-consumer materials be used in new hardware & packaging (100% for packaging). Go after the competitor buyouts. Go after the missing quality-control on software...

crowley said:

Rayz2016 said:

22july2013 said:

AppleInsider said:

In an interview with Reuters, Vestager agreed with Cook that privacy and security are important factors for consumers, but warned the Cupertino tech giant against using concerns about them to fend off competition.

I guess the health and safety of drugs shouldn't be a motivating factor of drug companies either. 

I think what she’s saying is that you must make your OS more open to scams and malware to level the playing field. 

The last time the EU got involved in stuff it knows nothing about, we ended up with a page full of questions and checkboxes in front of every website. 

Hyperbole much?  Most websites have a banner with an Accept Cookies button and nothing more. 

Apparently you don’t clear your browser crud often enough for these to irritate you. I clear mine often, so it’s almost every goddamned website, almost every goddamned visit.

mr lizard said:

rob53 said:

Limited article. Parallels can’t do anything with Windows 11 until Microsoft releases an ARM version. Apple moving away from Intel so VMWare seems to not care about non-Intel related virtualization. Parallels is trying but can’t make Microsoft do anything. Running Unix/Linux under virtualization on an M-series Mac might not have enough customers to keep Parallels in business long term. 

Um... Windows 10 has had an ARM version for a while now [...]

Not available to end users, though, is what I keep reading here on this forum.

As if a corporate monster would ever really listen to employees. And i expect most of the commentary here is against workers, but I’m not going to keep reading it because why should I make myself mad at the same antisocial people who always make antisocial comments on this site...

I will believe it only when the average American sees improvements. So far, every damned plan starts out sounding good for us, but the corporations lobby it into another money-making scheme for themselves. Verizon didn’t finish rolling out fiber, but pocketed federal money for it, and used it on their wireless service. Every provider lists a ton of “taxes” we have to pay, when most of these are actually taxes. And their service sucks.