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  • EU officials are not happy with how Apple is handling Progressive Web Apps

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    A lot of commenters are looking at this from what's good for Apple.  How about we look at it from what's good for the customer?  It is not good for the customer to lose web apps on the home screen.  Apple is simply continuing its heavy handed approach with iOS/iPadOS for its own financial benefit in the name of security.  All they had to do was implement the same security model the Mac has and this would be over.  Scan and notarize third party apps and allow an option for no notarization apps.  Simple.  Apple should not be in control of what is installed on an iOS/iPadOS device anymore than they control what is installed on the Mac.  It is such an elementary point that is pains me to have to make it.  When you buy an iPhone from Apple it is no longer Apple's phone.  It is your phone.  You can install what you want on your phone.  Apple's heavy handedness simply should not be tolerated by the customer.
    If you do not like how a company operates then do not give them more money. There is a competitive alternative, Android, and there is just getting a non-smart phone. I will never get buying something and then trying to force a company to change the business model to better suit a customer.

    BTW you own the phone but definitely do not own the software (iOS), but instead have a license to use it under the restrictions Apple imposes for doing so. It is safe to say anything that has software on it cannot be completely owned by the end user.
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  • EU officials are not happy with how Apple is handling Progressive Web Apps

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    avon b7 said:
    And in case you didn't know, MWC2024 started here in Barcelona today and the opening speech made a big play for Open Gateway which already has 65% of the world's telecos onboard with the biggest proponents being the big EU players. 

    The telcos would love to have direct access to data in the Open Gateway. Right now the only things they can sell are location data and phone numbers dialed/texted. Getting into the pipe would expand this exponentially. 
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  • AT&T will pay a miserly $5 per account in outage compensation

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    GeneT said:
    After a two year class action lawsuit, who here thinks the customer would get any more than $5, while the lawyers pocket millions. I'll take my $5.
    The class action is probably in the works though the judge should throw it out immediately since AT&T has proactively handed out the $5 credit which is about what a class action suit would have yielded.
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  • AT&T will pay a miserly $5 per account in outage compensation

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    jmoore5196 said:
    As Steve Martin would have said, "It's a profit deal."

    While my own carrier would likely offer nothing better, I'm glad I'm not an AT&T customer.
    Your carrier will go down at some point. It is inevitable as massive systems like these do have failures. What your carrier does not like is they cannot really criticize AT&T too much since they owned the problem and paid everyone the equivalent of 4 days of free service. Your carrier and others will be expected to pay even the failure is minor.
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  • EU officials are not happy with how Apple is handling Progressive Web Apps

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    PWA sounds like JAVA. Close but odd enough to not look right or work great. I'll stick to native apps only.
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