Spotify, Epic Games pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a 'mockery' of DMA
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Whichever country drafts the next regulation on the same line should incorporate a clause something like "Users must be free to create, distribute & install any software / applications on their own devices without any involvement of Platform Operator, with equal access to APIs available to native stores".
Just stop buying and using Apple products.
Hitting their bottom line is much more effective than waiting for governments to step in.
You can get a 2019 16" for around $440 right now and the screen and speakers are amazing :) Been gaming on it too.
Buying this far down the chain keeps the dollars out of apples pockets.
Also, the mere fact that that is possible sheds some doubt on the assertion that Google is worse than Apple, at least if we're looking at the user freedoms advocated for by the top-level commenter.
>Just stop buying
I cannot remember a single time this actually happened at a noticable scale as a response to a tech company's anti-competitive shenanigans.
Android + F-Droid are a thing. If you want to get really fancy you can even install a Google-free ROM, but that's hardly necessary to gain the freedoms that Apple denies you.
Doesn’t that tell you instead that the latter is a higher priority?
It’s not like the inverse isn’t true as well. People outside the Apple ecosystem who want the benefits. They make the opposite priority call.
> Whichever country drafts the next regulation on the same line should incorporate a clause something like "Users must be free to create, distribute & install any software / applications on their own devices without any involvement of Platform Operator, with equal access to APIs available to native stores".
Your statement would make more sense if inverted? That people within the Apple ecosystem aren’t trying to change how Samsung or Google operate
The way these discussions usually go is that a bunch of Apple users complain about the restrictions, a bunch of Apple users say they like them, and a few Android users like myself remind the complainers that there are, in fact, other options that don't involve forcing Apple to take away the rules that most iOS users appreciate having.
The rest of your post reads like you just have a general deep seated disdain for Apple users.
I'm not talking about the EU law and neither was OP—OP is proposing a clause that they would like future laws to include, a clause that doesn't actually exist in any real regulation. I'm talking about their proposal and similar proposals coming from other random commenters on HN who overwhelming are within the Apple ecosystem.
> The rest of your post reads like you just have a general deep seated disdain for Apple users.
Not at all! There are plenty of good reasons to choose Apple. One of the biggest reasons is that they provide an extremely integrated and curated experience, which is really valuable for most smartphone users.
What I disapprove of is people who try to pretend that they have no choice but to buy an iPhone and then attempt to force Apple to fundamentally alter the product they're offering (which, again, most of their customers enjoy) when there are already valid options out there that serve their need for absolute user freedom.
The letter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39565975
LVMH is their biggest company. Got to hit 'em where it hurts.
It only hurts a French billionaire. I doubt many Europeans give a solitary shit about the fortunes of LVMH.
But these complaints, from these specific companies, read a bit like: Apple’s walled garden is problematic because it won’t let me build my own walled garden on their platform >:(
Maybe if we compared it to a car dealership. Imagine if you could only buy and sell replacement parts for your car through the dealership where you bought it. Or if you try service a car and can't because you can only do that at the original dealer, etc.
This whole "walled garden" stuff will morph into region locking that we had before.
You currently buy an apple phone and can only buy apps from apple "dealership"
This will allow you to buy apps from different "dealerships". That does not guarantee "dealerships" which provides the behaviour you want, but it makes it possible from what I understand.