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I’m an Apple fan and I keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in Apple stock, and I still hope we at least get side loading out of all this. I do not believe this would be in any way detrimental to Apple - most people don’t give a shit. But for me and others like me it’d be pretty neat to do on my iPhone and iPad what I can already do on my Mac: install my own software that is not arbitrarily time limited.

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Hope? You should demand it. You’ve already dipped money into it.

This sounds like a bad idea for diversification unless you're extremely wealthy and have tens of hundreds of thousands in other things.

Probably an Apple employee that hasn’t vested

It's of course not the only thing in my portfolio, nor is it even the main security in it. Parking all the money in a single stock would be an extremely bad idea indeed.

> I do not believe this would be in any way detrimental to Apple

They wouldn't be ropped in kicking and screaming if that really was the case.

Much like my 8 year old, I think they lack the perspective to behave like an adult here.

Several companies have fought what they thought were unwanted regulations only to view them as useful later on. Time will tell if they were right to kick and scream or not.

Yeah. Especially in Apple’s case, I don’t understand how they can’t see that a more open iOS could easily dominate the market.

It already dominates the market though, at least in the US, the wealthiest market there is.

They actually have to put effort into competing in Europe, lol.

And they have been rather uncompetitive lately. Nowadays, the only thing they do better than others is their own silicon but since it's not that relevant for phones anymore they need to do better. The worst is that because of greed they find a way to purposefully limit the phone usefulness to artificially force higher price poing (RAM/storage).

Just as an example, you gotta be really into the ecosystem to choose an iPhone 15 over a Pixel 8. But I think most stick with Apple because it is complicated to switch and all the software "investment" is lost.

Previously as an Apple "believer" I was against cross-platform apps but now I feel like a transferable licence is almost a requirement. It is very worth the small performance cost.

Idk, iPhone 15 is faster, more private, and has better software. It’ll also last much longer, speaking from experience.

They have a fiduciary responsibility to kick and scream as much as possible, then turn around and pitch it as a new feature once the rule is passed. If they really thought that they'd lose tons of money they would avoid drawing attention to it, and quietly pour money into bribing officials and sabotaging Android.

Isn't this standard door-in-face technique? Throw an absurd proposal in your face to make the next proposal look reasonable even if it is not even close to the original demand?

What we'll most likely get is a backdoor to iPhone encryption in the name of "security".

What makes you so sure there isn't one already? The FBI's whining?

It's like that scene at the end of Sneakers: "they just don't want to share with the other children..."

We do know with 100% certainty there is a backdoor built in to the hardware. [0] The only question is who gets the extreme pleasure of using it.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mas...

> arbitrarily time limited.

I think this statement is unclear. You can currently sideload applications on ios, but you have to agree to terms from apple, have an appleid, and then you can compile and run an app for a few days. Then the app stops working. lather, rinse, repeat.

Honestly, I think apple is back to the wandering misguided apple before steve jobs returned. There seems to be no leadership, just the 1984 commercial, maybe with bright art-deco colors added. leadership would cut through all this nonsense and straighten things out.

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