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This has occurred on iOS 17 on my 15 Pro Max for the past few months prior to iOS 18 public release

The worst employees at the Apple Store I used to work at now want to unionize. They harass people they don’t like, engage in subterfuge of management to undermine the company’s goals, and after 15 years feel entitled to just stay forever with piss poor behavior and attitudes. They are a detriment to the company and should have left at least 10 years prior to find better opportunities for themselves. Yet they have not. They want to hang out in the same retail store with their buddies to joke, undermine Apple, and continue to harass anybody they don’t like. Now they’ve partnered with the worst of the new employees who are just out of college and want a job for life. In addition a friend of the two biggest perpetrators became Leader of the Genius Bar and with those two perpetrators called the repair room “an HR free zone.” If you are a loser who makes bad decisions it is not Apple’s responsibility to give you a job for life so you can hone your hobby of harassment of other Apple employees, make fun of customers, and undermine Apple’s priorities. I for one absolutely do not support unionizing as I’ve seen what it can result in. 

What is not mentioned is how many small and medium sized businesses make MFi products. Apple supports these businesses by having such a certification program that gives people “choice”, something I thought the EU was all about. So much for fake anti-trust and anti-competitive narrative. The EU will be doing damage to those small businesses that make the majority of their profit off the MFi program, some being European. That’s another reason Apple hasn’t changed from Lightning I would assume, so they don’t pull the rug out from other companies that depend on selling certified Apple accessories. But I guess Margarethe Vestager and her cohort will feel like they are powerful or some crap, while subverting the EU and EC’s own stated goals. Seems equally short sighted as decrying violent tyrants like Vladimir Putin while creating an energy policy that depends on that dictator. 

crowley said:

hmlongco said:

Nice, but whatever happened to the tap to transmit contact information feature?

There's this option, which may be of interest: (29) How to make a digital business card for your Apple Wallet | LinkedIn

I agree, it'd be quite cool to NFC your contact card over.  Though it might cause some concern given that it's the same mechanism to transfer money.

There has long been an option to create a business card that can be stored in Apple wallet and shared many ways. This has been true almost since Apple first released Apple
Wallet. NFC is not necessary to share a business card made this way. Is that what Europe wants Apple to open up NFC for?

No surprise that Europe’s wants special treatment for its developers. European exceptionalism is on the rise