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ikir said:

Because of “freedom” we will have:
- Smartphone without basic apps, and we will forced to download third party apps

- Devs desperate for all pirated and modded softwares thanks to sideloading.. for freeeeedom, Android style!

- terrible repairs with third party low quality parts, more bulky phone since manufacture will need to make things to replace easier without paying a certified shop. Sure user will blame Apple for iPhone without water resistance after a repair, for audio working badly, ghost touch on tablets and go on.. but we will really free and we would saved 10 dollars on repair!



 

Nobody forces you to use worse repair shop. Can you use brain? The only thing that this may trigger is better competition. Stop propagating idea of monopoly. It is as bad as it gets and it proves you cannot think on your own.

No it is not. Monitor in 24 inch size is way too small and it is ill idea of someone who does not understand principles of human vision. It is the same as marketing foolishness from years ago about 32 millions of colors while human eye can recognize about 300,000. Selling on technical specs does not pay off.

If you really want to squeeze more information on screen that is expressed with 4K resolutions then you need minimum 27 inch monitor or better: 32 inch monitor. Tiny fonts do not work when you have to start using eyeglasses to see them. 24 inch monitor is for 1080/HD resolutions and it is old standard at this point, but popular with many applications including some office work.

As far as I know it is truly life at Apple... including weekends. No personal life. Is this how one imagines life balance? Well elsewhere it is called: Do more with less... and sometimes... for less. I call it project mismanagement on resource levels. Giving forced time off in periods of market slowness is not a solution to compensate. It is not one life model fits all and company does not own employee just because one pursues career with it.

avon b7 said:

stuke said:

No one forced you to buy an iPhone nor iPad since 2007. No one also forced you to purchase any smartphone application on the App Store if you did buy an iPhone or iPad.  Get off your high horse and innovate something out of the EU that the rest of the world finds useful, helpful, and or impactful, and is willing with their one free will to pay for that value. 

@Apple, quit selling in the EU Block. It will last for 3-6 months before the findings are negated. . 

No one forced anyone to buy an iPhone or iPad.

But then again why is that even relevant here? 

This case is about a possible instance of abusing a dominant position. 

Do not waste time on responding to overzealous, brainwashed people who just follow their gods instead of questioning and reasoning properly. They will never understand while they have their agenda.

And yes there is a race to power and then abuse of power ultimately. One has to see this.

For those who still do not want to understand, go to your "echo system" - after all you are deeply in love with it. Do not complain later when you notice anything.

rrabu said:

Why are apps such a big deal? What about the monopoly on wireless driver or Bluetooth stack or any other piece?

I am not sure if you were born at the times this happened with Microsoft and IE then. Perhaps you should look at their case from 20 years ago with the same. Asking this questions is not very mature. Microsoft was stopped from other bad practices as well. I remember being developer who used their Win32Socks library for TCP-IP that  could be distributed only if IE was preinstalled (license requirement - not technical requirement) and it had nothing to do with Internet Explorer. The point of Microsoft was to eliminate competition and it was known as Internet Explorer vs. Netscape war in general terms. Ultimately we know outcome is that even Microsoft dropped their lame and incompatible with their own platform Internet Explorer and went Edge that is Chromium (Google Open Source project) based.

The problem with forcing people to have preinstalled software is eventually creating grounds for monopolistic behaviors. In case of Apple it may be expressed as  "building ecosystem". Yes ecosystem is good, but not closed one. iMessage was one of examples of this attempt where Apple execs took wrong decision and derailed telecommunication standard called SMS/MMS by diverting messaging to their system. It resulted in people who went Android to not receive SMS/MMS on their phones as well as misdelivery to wrong devices (and never to iPhone for example which I had that problem and spoke with Apple technicians to help solve it). Apple had even lawsuit for this. It was not technical glitch - it was example of making attempt to derail standards to create monopolistic behavior under guise of echosystem.