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Europe coming after Apple's App Store with Digital Markets Act
The media and Apple-hating trolls will feed on this. They will purposely leave out context in their articles. When a side loaded iPhone app steals user information, the article will say Apple IPHONE APP STEALS CUSTOMER INFO... it will not make any mention of that app being a 3rd-party App Store app and that Apple has no control over it. That's what gets the clickbait.AppleZulu said:Forcing Apple to allow side-loading on iPhone through alternate app stores will reduce choice for iPhone users, because they lose the option of the secure, 'walled garden' model. Competitors like Google, Meta and Spotify will quickly make sure that their wares are only available via 'alternate' stores that don't do things like restrict their ability to mine user data without informed consent. Many app developers who now submit to QC and security review to get on iPhone will simply stop, and iPhone users will be forced to either accept the inferior, less secure versions of those and other apps or lose the option to use them entirely. This won't increase quality and competition, it will do the opposite.
Perhaps iPhone users in the EU should file a class-action suit over this loss of choice and seek an injunction against implementing this mess before it starts.
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Europe coming after Apple's App Store with Digital Markets Act
Why does no one ever hear about security flaws in Android? It's because users have become accustomed to accepting that Android has zero security and accepts it. Any security issue on an iPhone is discussed on every news site and message boards.I hope Apple fights this stupid EU mandate and ties it up in the courts for years. I'm disgusted that some government agency is contemplating requiring a company - any company - to open up their product to competitors. Android's model is nigh and day different than iOS. The iPhone is an encapsulated product of both software and hardware and the reason for its success and security. It's why Apple has such a loyal customer base and repeat customers that other manufacturers can only envy.The moment some rogue app from a 3rd-party EU-sanctioned App Store hijacks/bricks iPhones, everyone will blame Apple. Guaranteed that is what will happen.You want unrestricted apps? Go to Android and shut up. You want unrestricted apps on an iPhone? Jailbreak it and shut up. For everyone else, continue to enjoy the (stronger) security of iOS and the curated App Store, and keep Apple as the gatekeeper and what can run on an iPhone and enjoy the 15%-30% "RENT" to developers for having access to hundreds of millions of loyal Apple customers that Apple works tirelessly to work keeping.
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Elon Musk orders Twitter to charge $20/month for verification
Musk isn't stupid. If someone would come out ahead of all this, it would be him.The responses here are really quite arrogant. If he does in fact come out ahead, it will only prove that the folks here are about as clueless as a bag of dirt in how to run a business. Whether you love or hate Tesla, considering the success he had from Tesla to SpaceX, I'd wager my money on him anytime compared to the clueless armchair-CEO's here.
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Google Pixel team burns Apple on Twitter -- from an iPhone
I guess Google hired some ex-Samsung marketing people?
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Brazil continues hammering Apple with fines over lack of bundled charger
I just bought a battery-powered Milwaukee die grinder at Home Depot. I had to buy a separate battery for it, and it came with no charger.Who do I sue? I feel slighted. I demand class-action status here people. /s
