• windowsphoneguy
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    1 day ago

    This goes deeper, it’s about devs getting access to pretty much any API that Apple only uses internally

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      This. They’re in a position of power where developers are beholden to what APIs they offer externally, so they can always give their offerings a leg up that no other service can compete with and if you engineer around their imposed limitations, then your app will never make it onto their App Store.

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        17 hours ago

        And lose one of the biggest and wealthy markets on the planet?

        Doubt it.

        But it would be nice though. If companies can not hold themselves to the law, they shouldn’t be part of our society. Some better company that does follow the law will fill in the market in no time.

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          8 hours ago

          He’d never have let Android out of the crib in the first place.

          But since it is out there - EU can have it. And build their own Pixel to run custom privacy roms and everybody’s happy.

          But nooooo we have to pass legislation that forces Apple to share their corporate research with fucking Meta so they can do evils with it. Great. What the hell’s the point then. All corporate IP is now open source? The pharma companies will dig that.

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        He probably wouldn’t. Even if he hadn’t died of sheer pig headed stubbornness.