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'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 135 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

I have no doubt the EU won't have much mercy for American corporations going* forward.

My phone REALLY wants me to type gong. Gong gong gong gong gong.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 101 points 3 months ago

bro be like

[–] univers3man@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Go ahead, this is a safe space. Get it out of your system.

[–] tacocatgoat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Gong gong, gonging gong gong!

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We don’t need no friends, allies or influence when we can be bullying, a child’s concept of tough, looking up to other dictators like Putin and Erdogan. Im sure all it will take is loud threats of widespread tariffs and a stable Genius who’s “great” at deals.

“Coincidentally” Apple might make sizable ~~bribes~~ independent donations to support the free and open re-election of The fuhrer

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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Maybe Nintendo, Sony and MS will be next?

I want a 3rd party store on all my consoles, why can’t I?

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Most every major company tries to build a walled garden. Apple does so via apps and services, services like netflix do by making sure you can’t watch shows on any other service (arr!), or even something as simple as cordless tools that have proprietary batteries and chargers where it gets really expensive to have to buy different batteries.

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[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well, they did get them to switch to USB-C, so I'm not holding my breath, but I do hope that this will lead to more interoperability. I'm tired of Apple making Android/non-Apple users feel like second-class citizens.

[–] CoCo_Goldstein@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

I have to agree. Switching to USB-C is a big step, but I doubt Apple will become more interoperable unless they are forced to.

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I still don’t think that one was actually the EU’s doing. Macs got USB C before most PCs, iPads had it for a long time before iPhones, and iPhones switched over 10 years after Apple announced lightning saying it would be their connector “for the next decade”

[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Apple got an special exemption the last time the EU standardised the port to Micro-USB.

The writing would have been on the wall for them. Especially as thunderbolt 3+ uses the USB-C connector, there was no guarantee the EU would give them exception again, and lightning is almost certainly not designed to handle the wattage needed to charge a Mac.

But otherwise, if not compelled, I doubt that Apple would have carried it over to the mobile devices. The timing is fortuitous, but likely because Apple has a little leeway before the EU forbade their devices/fined them for not following the law.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago

Destroys their entire business model 😂

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I was so hyped when the EU pressured Apple into allowing external software on Apple devices.

Apple killed that hype making the change EU only, problem is I’m encapsulated in the walled garden with an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Air Tags, HomePods.

Thinking of getting a second phone Android based to partially-escape the garden but if I ditch my iPhone all hell will break loose network wise.

[–] firepenny@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was you up until 3 months ago. I went nuclear and focused on the more open source side of android and have been so much happier for it. Sold everything to afford the changes.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry but the only way out of that is to stop buying apple products

I get the design choice, it looks nice, but the hardware is rather trashy and both hardware and software are hostile to it's users. That won't ever change

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[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

ditch the homepod and don't replace it with any other spyware, and replace the rest as needed.

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[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yay! Please stick with this, EU! I hope this spreads globally. 🥂

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