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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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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

Finally. We all about to see better prices and more features. If this ends in lower app store fees, its a massive win for every app company in the world!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week 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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Destroys their entire business model 😂

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week 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”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (14 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week 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.