22july2013

At least nobody can accuse Apple of Sherlocking video editing software.

I specifically choose Apple for myself and my family directly because of its walled garden approach. My life has been better because of it. If Apple ever dumps its walled garden approach, I will switch to Android out of anger towards Apple for taking away what I want.

jbdragon said:

lotones said:

There's a real simple solution here: Apple should just make a separate model, the iPhone eu, sold only in the EU, with it's own version of iOSeu, that has no privacy protections, very few features, and complies with their stupid DMA, but doesn't give away any intellectual property. When it becomes riddled with bugs, malware, spyware, let it crash and burn.

When they see the rest of Apple's customers worldwide moving on, EU customers will have to make their choice, and remove those responsible for this obnoxious DMA policy, and repeal or modify the DMA to be more practical.

I like this idea!  the iPhone is a small market in the EU anyway.  This will almost kill the iPhone there.  Then they will focus on Google and Android.  Then the EU can get China forked Android phones and China App store and no Google services just like in China.  The EU doesn't innovate anything.

I've been calling for a separate OS for iPhones for the EU for years, and everyone calls me an idiot. I've been recommending that the OS for iPhones in the EU be Android. Apple could pay Google to support Android for iPhones for the EU.

People here believe that private companies should be allowed to censor their customers and employees, and that the government should not be allowed to stop it. While this is true, the government has many "100% legal options" at their disposal, such as not buying any products for their own employees from companies that censor free speech. Therefore, investigations serve a purpose.

Besides, an investigation is itself protected under free speech laws, since Congress cannot censor itself either, and people typically forget that constitutional rights also apply to elected officials.

I probably would buy an Apple Vision Pro if I could watch ABBA's VR experience in it.