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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Hands on with Image Playground, ChatGPT, and Genmoji in iOS 18.2

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    Maybe it’s me, but all this back and forth over Image Playground and the quality of its generated images seems mostly irrelevant. How many consumers will put the ability to make fake AI generated images near the top of their must have features list? Probably not many.

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