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Apple now showing warnings on EU App Store apps with alternative payment options (m.gsmarena.com)

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[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago

Using an Apple device sounds insufferable

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For the most part, they work well and are easy. Perfect for tech illiterate people. The problem is they keep you tech illiterate rather than teaching you how to better use technology. Do it apples way, and pay for the privelege, or you can't do it at all.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem is they keep you tech illiterate rather than teaching you how to better use technology.

Well put IMO

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Spoken like someone who has never used a Mac.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

More accurately, perfect for people who don’t care to tweak, fiddle, or configure their devices. Being literate with technology doesn’t immediately mean that someone wants a device that offers them the flexibility to customize it. I don’t use an iPhone because I don’t understand technology, but rather because I prefer a device that doesn’t require any effort to use. Yes, it’s limited in some of the things it can do as a result, but the ecosystem is so seamless and free of troubleshooting that it’s valuable for me to not have to do any work outside of work.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sure, but you can't use it to download torrents for instance. Or until the eu forced it, use a different browser. The limitations have an effect on the openness of the internet as much as they do for user ease of use.

I don't know if you've tried any other phone in the last decade but there is not more troubleshooting on an android device than an iPhone. I have an iPad. I constantly find it more frustrating, than easy to use.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Why hello, consumer. Trying to get in harm's way by making decisions by yourself again? You silly goose. Let's get you back on track."

I cannot shake the feeling the Finder icon has the most condescending demeanor ever seen in software, even more so than Microsoft's Clippy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Except this logo is based on the splash screen used in Mac OS 7.5.1 which was released in 1995, and Clippy came with Word 97

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Today I learned.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

“WARNING this may be cheaper”

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

In Dutch we have this saying that if you don't want to listen, you have to feel. Not sure if that's also a thing in English but EU is definitely not gonna be ok with this.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

In germany we have the same saying, "Wer nicht hören will muss fühlen".

It's so much fun to discover that so many languages share so many phrases everwhere

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yep it's precisely that

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

"Fuck around and find out"?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah it comes down to the same end result, what I like about 'our' saying in this case is that it implies you've been warned and should by now know better.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Hey Apple, wanna find out what happens if you're a pissy little knob like this?

More regulation

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

how pathetic...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Cry some more Tim Apple.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This definitely gives me "our payment system is the only secure system there is, and you know it's true, because we say so" vibes.

This is exactly the sort of FUD language Microsoft used to use everywhere before they got slapped with the antitrust suit.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Malicious compliance in corporate form. I'll be surprised if this FUD isn't staggeringly effective in minimising their losses.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Amazing how these clown regimes can't handle these corpos.

I know when I behaved like like this, the belt came out...

this post was submitted on 16 May 2025

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