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  • Global chaos erupts as Windows security update goes bad

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    ITGUYINSD said:
    The headline makes it sound like a Windows Update caused the issue, when in fact, the issue was a 3rd party software company.

    Could have been worded better.  People are already blaming Windows...this headline doesn't help.
    We don’t know as yet but let’s be honest - Windows definitely had a roll to play in this mess. There is always something breaking with that POS. 

    Companies that played their cards right and migrated to Linux or Mac are probably having a good chuckle right now. 
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  • Global chaos erupts as Windows security update goes bad

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    CheeseFreeze said:
    AppleZulu said:
    So this is where we see letting third-party vendors have that level of access to the OS in order to provide security becomes a vulnerability in itself. 
    Nonsense. Good standards don’t let third parties to operate “on an OS level” since that access is not needed to begin with. In case of Apple and Microsoft they provide APIs and frameworks that other vendors can use. They stay within these boundaries (or there wouldn’t be a standard).

    Also, you could argue the very opposite. Letting a few tech giants in control over protocols used world-wide means that when things go bad, everything goes bad. 
    You might not understand how antivirus work, but kernel access is needed for them to function.  
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  • Apple's Core Technology Fee at the center of EU's first DMA violation investigation

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    rorschachai said:
    Apple should just shut down the App Store in the EU and have side loading be the exclusive way to install apps. Wipe their hands of it all and let companies figure out the logistics of marketing, hosting, payment processing, etc themselves.

    Apple Intelligence is only the start of features that the EU will be left behind on.
    I don’t think they will shut it down, but what it does seem they are doing is making EU users second class citizens by holding back features from the EU version of iOS to limit their blast radius. 
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  • Apple Intelligence & iPhone mirroring aren't coming to EU because of the DMA

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    Psamathos said:
    This seems like a whole load of posturing and blackmail to me. Basically they are saying "we can't enable screen sharing to apps that Apple hasn't authorised because they might allow data to go somewhere that violates the users' privacy". Well, you know, you could always ask the user, couldn't you? Maybe a dialogue box the first time you connect to an app that's not signed by Apple isn't the absolutely perfect user experience, but it's an awful lot better than killing the feature all together. Given that Apple's own app store doesn't have a perfect record on vetting applications, that same pop-up-on-first-connect would probably be useful for Apple App Store apps too.

    So no, this isn't EU regulation causing problems. This is Apple causing problems and attempting to blame the EU, because it doesn't want to loose its insanely lucrative monopoly by which is takes 30% of the entire value of the App Store for its own profit.

    That’s not the issue.  Screen sharing would need to work on Windows, Chromebooks, Linux etc. not worth it for Apple. 

    Suck it EU - you reap what you sow. 
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  • EU has very serious issues with Apple, says competition chief

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    spheric said:
    gatorguy said:
    spheric said:

    rob53 said:
    I have very serious issues with the dictatorship called the EU. 
    The fact that a democratically elected government is "dictating" rules that all businesses — even foreign ones — need to follow (we call them "laws") does not make them a "dictatorship". 

    You'd just rather not have to follow the law. 
    Apple doesn't just follow the law, they follow the spirit of the law. 
    In this case, they're absolutely not following the spirit of the law. 

    They're complying with the letter, but adding extra levies to ensure that following the law makes effectively no difference. 

    That's the opposite of "following the spirit of the law", and it didn't fly with the EU commission. 
    This is the problem - they let all the big tech companies implement the changes on their own because the EU is full of bureaucrats that don’t understand technology.  If they don’t like Apple’s interpretation of the law then they should have been more specific in what they wanted.    
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