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There is one aspect people don't really talk about yet, because it is not just about "allowing sideloading". The law says "no self-preferencing". That means that installing an app from for example F-Droid has to take the exact same amount of taps with the exact same UX as installing something from Google Play. Same goes for the App Store. The point is not to allow sideloading, but to erase the word sideloading from the vocabulary of the platform and make it just like Windows in that regard.

This is not just bringing iOS to where Android is, Android is still not compliant yet either. Neither is Windows by the way, because of how they treat Edge.

Apple didn't sponsor the DMA, it was fighting tooth and nail against it. In general, EU politicians are harder to buy because they are more fragmented, and bribery is still illegal BTW.

That said, on the one hand, this fee structure is actually illegal under the DMA, the "core platform fee" nonsense is specifically illegal, and the EU is already on their ass about it.

On the other hand, this is just as if MSFT made Internet Explorer super expensive to license after they got hit by the same kind of regulation way back when. This just means that if you are an iOS app dev, you might want to release on something other than the App Store. I expect Google Play being available on iPhones pretty fast for example, or the Windows Store, or a bunch of other third party stores, and Apple can't even preinstall or prefer the App Store on iOS over them. All the App Store being more expensive will do is make App Store fade to irrelevancy in the long run.

It doesn't matter if it's a walled garden with the DMA. Yes, MacOS is not in scope, because it doesn't have enough users, but Android and Windows totally are.

Yeah, I understand and I actually agree. The GDPR is not doing enough, yet it's the best effort we have made. I usually see criticism from the other side, eg. "regulation bad".

If it were up to me, I'd just say that the surveillance capitalism industry should be outlawed completely, treated the same as slave and arms trading. It's actively making the world worse for most people.

I have an ET-8550 that we bought for printing family photos to scrapbook. It eats ink from bottles instead of cartridges and is happily printing anything I can give it for 2 years now. I print 5-10 coloured pages every 1–2 weeks for a hobby, plus two full photo albums came out of it, and we're still on the first set of ink bottles.

I don't need any wonky software either, it's on the WLAN and Windows just automatically notices it, installs drivers and prints from the OS prompt. Maybe my better half uses their software for the photo printing, IDK.

It's brain dead because it's a kneejerk response without anything backing it up.

EU regulations have a massive positive day-to-day effect on my life. It's not like they get everything right, but on the grand scale, it's working better than any other regulatory system I know.

Not even just that, you have to have at least 7.5B EUR turnover or 75B EUR market cap, AND 45M end users AND 10k business users AND keep this up for 3 years.

And even then it's not automatic, you get nominated and get arguments, and only then you have to follow it.

I mentioned the six companies because they are the only ones that this currently applies to, and that will be the case for the foreseeable future as well. And even from them, it's specific products. MacOS is not in scope for example, despite iOS being scoped in.

Guy is quoting a comedy skit. It is actually untypical. Also, Britannica lists untypical as a valid word either way.

Top comment by Chris (@SwiftySanders@urbanists.social) Liked by 7 people

I think all these changes that the EU is doing really only benefit large development firms like Spotify and Epic at the expense of the smaller developers. EU is adding additional regulations and requirements from Apple which smaller developers and indie developers will now have to comply with which will act as barriers to entry for some. That’s bad for competition…which I think was ultimately the goal for Epic and Spotify.

I love this braindead take regurgitated again and again and again. The DMA specifically does not apply to anyone smaller than a big monopolistic company. Apple barely made the cut themselves. The whole regulation is about forcing six companies - the Act only applies to them at all - to open up their walled gardens because they are strangling their respective markets and killing innovation, consumer choice and competition.

neoliberal ideology that the GDPR is based on is catastrophic

Could you expand on that?

So the marketing material has arrays of electric ducted fan engines and a ton of batteries next to a hydrogen tank. I couldn't find how the hydrogen is being used to charge the batteries.

Autonomous cars improve things over regular cars, and should reduce the need for parking.

As long as they are not owned by private individuals and are actually shared. I can totally see people instead of parking their car, just having them circle around in traffic. It would be hilarious to watch in a morbid curiosity way though.