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This is user-hostile. Not everything that can be enforced should be enforced.

Anyway, the one thing that is even more user-hostile is sending app-makers screenshot-was-made events without telling the users. This is a thing on Android.

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Apple is user-hostile and user-empowering at the same time.

It’s cute that you think that companies can demand things from film studios.

But in the real world that doesn’t happen and Apple needs their support to get this content on the platform in the first place.

>> It’s cute that you think that companies can demand things from film studios.

The snark does not really add anything to the discussion.

Apple is the second largest company in the world by market cap. I think they have some leverage.

And yet the decades of on the ground evidence from iOS, macOS, AppleTV and now Vision Pro is that (a) market cap means nothing, (b) Apple has about as much leverage as everyone i.e. none and (c) film studios dictate the rules.

Glad that soon generative AI will dictate the rules.

Well, I had more freedom on my old VHS recorder.

Not for want of trying. VHS tapes were frequently produced with MacroVision that would distort the image on copy.

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