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Who would've thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): "The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper."

Friendly reminder that you can sideload apps without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account using TrollStore, which utilises core trust bugs to bypass/spoof some app validation keys, on a iPhone XR or newer on iOS 14.0 up to 16.6.1. (ANY version for iPhone X and older)

Install guide: Trollstore

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

For the hate-cult members circle-jerking over imaginary arguments with “fan boys” here. Actual Apple users either completely agree with the criticism, or simply don’t even care.

Feel free to hate on Apple the company, but stop trying so hard to make this place a home for baseless toxicity.

Edit: And just to drive home how pathetic this is, here’s a link to an article posted elsewhere in the fediverse about Google being shady af. Go look through those comments for a single soul saying anything about “Google/Android fanboys”.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

What is this gaslighting you're trying to pull here? You're really going to pretend that Apple fanboys don't exist and instead start criticising some sort of perceived toxicity from a "hate cult" against Apple? That's before you get into some bizarre Google strawman. The reality is that these Apple fanboys with values antithetical to software freedom exist, and want walled gardens everywhere.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

EU, I belive in you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I suppose they can charge to use their own side-loading software, or their alternative app store, but I'm not sure what happens if a third party offers a side-loading platform that doesn't pay Apple.

I suppose they can just refuse to allow such platforms to exist, but the EU may not feels that satisfies their grievances. Eventually they're going to have to require side-loading.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Did Tim Cook have a bad trip or something? Apple normally isn’t this blatantly shitty.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to see an apple cuck try and explain this

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Yes, well, the whole point is that them following the law means that their assistance warranting fees (like running a store) isn't required. So I hope they get nailed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

And Apples file system sucks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

What? APFS is fantastic. That’s not really disputed.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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