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  • 'Verifiably untrustworthy' Epic Games iOS app store plans in EU killed by Apple

    CheeseFreezeCheeseFreeze
    This is going to majorly backfire on Apple. 
    9secondkox2williamlondon

  • Apple updates rules surrounding EU DMA compliance to address developer concerns

    CheeseFreezeCheeseFreeze
    A maze of red tape to make it prohibitive.  An alternative app store on macOS requires no interaction or input from Apple at all.  An example is MacPorts.  The real answer here is customers demanding app freedom on iOS and iPadOS from Apple and voting with their dollars if Apple doesn't deliver.  The same app freedoms should exist on iOS/iPadOS as has existed on macOS since 1984: 'sideloading' allowed.  The very term 'sideloading' is itself a loaded term that presumes an authority that Apple doesn't have, control of YOUR device.  It is your device not Apple's.  You should be able to load on it whatever app you darn well please.   That is still true on the Mac.  It should be true for iPhones too.
    Well said and good observation around the term “side loading”, which by itself is a propaganda term. It’s really simply “downloading”.

    As long as the operating system has the necessary protections to “sandbox” security on a per app-level and the app not having the ability to touch things like the kernel or system level services, it’s perfectly fine to place the responsibility in the user’s hands when it comes to downloading from other sources.

    The snarky, somewhat juvenile comments from “Chasm” feel like fanboyism, defending a large corporation who has been actively lobbying a false narrative of security vs exploits, but is really only interested in two things: control and profits.
    It reduces what can be a mature dialogue to personal attacks, and this keeps happening on this forum.
    It is just a matter of time before these rules become the new standard. EU is considered a perfect pilot for the US and other territories. 
    xyzzy-xxxlibertymattersgatorguywilliamlondoncropr

  • M3 MacBook Air vs M1 MacBook Air -- Compared

    CheeseFreezeCheeseFreeze
    The real cost for a laptop like this is of-course one that is equipped with 512gb of memory, and if you want to truly leverage its performance, with 16gb of internal memory.

    Apple is deliberately equipping it with a measly 256gb so that you are inclined to walk up the ladder, ending up with a ~ EUR 1750 laptop, EUR 250 shy of an entry level Macbook Pro, which in return makes no sense either (and up the ladder you go).

    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple IDs may be renamed 'Apple Accounts' by the end of 2024

    CheeseFreezeCheeseFreeze
    I hope they finally allow the App Store and iCloud accounts to be merged. I'm still forced to use 2 email & passwords for it.

    dewmewilliamlondonappleinsideruser

  • Apple will reap the rewards of the cancelled Apple Car project for decades

    CheeseFreezeCheeseFreeze
    The A17 Pro has 16 cores on a new 3nm process that can chew through 35 trillion operations per second. The M3 also has 16 cores, but a slower speed of 18 trillion operations per second. Even the S9 on the Apple Watch has four neural cores
    Wait… The M3 is more than twice as slow compared to the A17 Pro? Why would they make the phone more powerful versus a desktop processor?
    williamlondon