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As soon as I read some reviews were calling it unusable the first name that popped into my head was the Verge.

This magazine is filled with anti-Apple sentiment that it’s probably subscribed to by Putin.

All of their Apple coverage is biased against Apple. I’ve hardly ever read anything positive about Apple from them.

I’d refuse to accept their review as anything but pure drivel.

Prometheu said:

OK, fine, I'm glad they're finally doing something. But this could be solved so much more easily by just dropping webkit and becoming a Chromium browser. The whole world is browsing with Chromium. It's fine. And most importantly, it always on the cutting edge of everything new in the web. WebKit on the other hand lags YEARS behind major web innovations. If that's what this effort is going to address, then great, but I sincerely doubt it.

NO. It should be the other way around. Chrome should become a WebKit browser. Remember, it used to be before Google took the WebKit code and forked it to become Chromium.

In my experience, anything running on Chromium sucks the life out of my machines and I'm not prepared to accept that. It doesn't matter if I'm using Chrome, Edge, Brave Browser, Opera, or whatever, they ALL are slow. WebKit is a much better browser system.

As for WebKit being behind development, this is just wrong. Chromium might use more features but it is rushing to the table with features that are half-baked and not fully implemented in the HTML and CSS specifications. Just having those features doesn't a better browser make. Having those features working IS and that's why Safari/WebKit seem so far behind.

Of course no one’s taking the stand that this is fake news and drumming up interest in his film and Apple isn’t actually carrying out any of this?

A number of carriers in Europe also blocked Private Relay for data collection reasons. 

This to me seems like the most likely reason that the big 4 are complaining. The interesting thing is the complainers are UK companies (except Telefonica) and yet the UK is no longer part of the EU.

But to block Private Relay in order to collect data undermines the EU's stance on privacy as the users have no option to opt out of this.

It really does seems like the EU are the most hypocritical cow-towing governing body on the planet.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Lots of apps are leaving the App Store not because how much Apple charges developers but because of the restrictions Apple places on developers and users of third party apps. It is a lot worse on iOS where Apple forbids users to side load apps onto phones, tablets, watches, Apple TVs, Car Play, etc. Hint for EU anti-trust regulators: Ask Apple why this is happening? Ask why these types of apps that can't exist on the Mac App Store don't exist at all on the iPhone? Ask why Apple forces users to side load them on the Mac? Ask Apple why choices about what software you can run should be an Apple monopoly?

I think the real question is why do these apps need to exist in the first place? There are already systems in place that allow a lot of these functions to happen with AppleScript and Automator/Shortcuts. 3rd party apps like this create a HUGE security threat. If you're happy with that then good luck to you. Most people just want their system to work without any hassles.

It's got nothing to do with the bollocks claim Apple has a monopoly. They built the platform, they built the services, they can do whatever they want with it. It's not a monopoly. They want security rather than flexibility which is inherently insecure. Tools like this don't offer security when they can access foundational aspects of the OS.