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That is indeed one area of privacy but I wouldn’t say that Apple is far worse. There is countless number of examples where this just simply isn’t true.

Also regarding the App Store, you don’t have to enter a credit card, you can make an account with a new email address.

I’m from a technical background and so I understand this but being a Brit sentences like this are always funny to me

It’s funny (and annoying) the disparity between Arm builds for macOS and Windows. I understand why it happens but even Microsoft has produced Arm native versions of apps for macOS before Windows.

I signed up for BuyMeACoffee recently. I did some work for free that’s important for the industry I work in and a few people donated money to me. That was almost 2 weeks ago and I’m still waiting for them to review my account. The only support seems to be just an email address?

In regards to the fact they pulled out of countries that are hard to operate in, yeah it’s annoying but you know, can you blame them?

Good for them. I’m a huge supporter of unions. Union busting is quite different here in the UK, so I should imagine they’ll successfully join the union without too much fuss.

The problem is if you go for a free market "vote with their wallets" approach, you end up with a problem like the US did with Microsoft having too high of a market share and control on browsers, media players and operating systems.

Customers can only really vote with their wallets when there is choice and no de facto standard. On top of that, many consumers don't really understand that things like their privacy and and choice has been taken away from them.

I do not agree with all parts of the DMA and I think it's overbearing in some areas but also lacklustre in others but I do think it's important that we don't let monopolies control our lives.

This is interesting, sure, but you would need more data to create a better identifier.

I’m on an iPhone, which isn’t an uncommon device using Brave which is just WebKit because of iOS restrictions. So there would be lot of iPhones that would just end up being with basically the same identifier.

Thanks both!

Do you happen to remember which bus company this was? Is there any article you can link me too as I’m quite interested in reading some more on it.

In what way?

It’s not even true that you can’t update an Apple Watch without an iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204641

There’s a certain irony of the whole thing

What version of iOS/which iPhone? 12 Pro Max here on 17.1.2 and having no issues.

I have used Infuse for years. I just use a basic NAS with a torrent client and a watch folder. I have pretty fast broadband too, so all together it’s a really nice experience. Plus the devices I’m usually watching from are an iPad, Mac or Apple TV anyway, so it works super nicely for me. I’ve never really understood the appeal of Plex to be honest.

They shouldn't be. I don't see them as synonymous.

This is sad but unsurprising. Microsoft did so well purchasing Xamarin and then systematically ripped it apart and didn’t bother to put any effort behind VS Mac. Then it did early this year and then just gave up.

I wonder if Jacob Rees-Mogg remembers this?

The real worry is those that operate it will think that France is in England.

I'm a massive fan of Shazam in Control Centre. It let me have space for another app on the home screen, and they also sync with the iOS app now too.

This is a joke right?

Not saying I don't believe you but why would a Brit leave out the 'u' in labour?

What about reader mode?

I was going to comment this! Also asking for push notifications too.

Why wouldn't you leave those things on? Apple designed iOS for those things to be handled and turned on when needed. BLE is quite low in power, GPS is only on when location services need it. These are concerns I would have had about 10-15 years ago, but I don't now.

I listen to the Friday Night Comedy Radio 4 podcast every Friday. There was an announcement on there that Apple Podcasts would still get them, but 30 days later than BBC Sounds.

I must say, I remember when the BBC were moving to HTML5 video players on their website and they were happy they weren't locked into RealPlayer anymore and how over the years, the BBC has always provided all its services as platform agnostic as possible.

I'm quite angry the BBC has pushed its podcasts to its own platform. The whole point of the BBC operating the way it does is to remain open and not have these weird closed platform scenarios. I also don't really like the BBC Sounds app.

By album mode do you mean landscape? I've never heard it called album mode before.

"They're bad, like really bad on privacy."

That's an odd thing to say about a company so well known for its privacy stance the FBI tried to shame Apple to get backdoors put in after the San Bernardino massacre and they said no.