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Useless and hopeless... fixing the existing mechanisms to actually work would be a good start. Why I would want to limit regular communication is a mystery to me (maybe someone should revisit the name iPhone) -- that's the main reason why my kids have a mobile phone to begin with. Who gives a crap about sexting (and other things prude Americans can't stand) in Messages and Facetime if Apple makes it impossible to really block shite "social" media apps and websites that make it super easy to even accidentally stumble across much worse stuff!

Hiking internal prices (which are already higher than in the US) to make up for the margin losses in the US will put a massive damper on those non-US markets. Of course Apple knows this and will do what is best for them. However I'm really surprised that Morgan Stanley is farsighted enough to suggest such a dumb move...

If the user is a minor, their account must be linked to a parent or guardian, who would then have to approve each app download -- a feature that Apple already provides.

I would love this to be true. Unfortunately kids can install any app if it's free (and within the age restrictions) or is a paid app one of the adults paid for and family sharing is on.

I don't understand why Apple can't implement a full control over the apps a kids can use... call it family MDM. The current implementation is borderline useless.

The whole Google thing is a complete disgrace for Apple and totally hurting their: "pay the premium for our stuff, we care about your privacy" story and reputation. Stop f*cking around and kill that irresponsible deal already. Apple is really lucky their "AI" shit never got off the ground in the first place because they're the ones seeing the least hurt when the current LLM jokes implode for real. We're already seeing the first clear indications of that: The search results are filling up with all the same LLM generated nonsense slob, ranking optimised to show up at the very top, fake information popping up everywhere, search engines starting to provide "AI" assistance to filter through all the shit but hallucinating equally nonsense answers while the "AI" utilities get not only fatter and slower but also yielding worse results because there're no actual quality training data so their in[g|c]esting their own "AI" generated "data". Meanwhile the big companies are trying so sell some hat tricks as reasoning capabilities which is one of the corner stones of actual intelligence. It's a shame Eddy is actually outing himself as the same utterly clueless person as all the other tech leaders, I thought they would actually be different at Apple.

dewme said:
Very interesting. 
I’m surprised that Apple’s legal department didn’t deal with this concern earlier. GPL has long been a slippery slope for creating legal issues that can potentially result in your proprietary product code being opened up to public use. This has been the case for close to 20 years. I recall the Linksys WRT54G router being in the crosshairs until they caved and released their product source code. 

Every product I worked on after the Linksys case had to go through the legal team to ensure we were not exposed.