After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must ‘open up its gates to competitors’.::The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other…
good.
‘Security’ is apple’s version of ‘think of the children’.
I love that the company famous for their 1984 ad tells you they know what software’s best for you to run on a device you own. Very big brother. I really hope iOS 18 third party stores aren’t geo locked to the EU; I wouldn’t put it past them.
If the iPhone becomes flashable, I bet apple will try and make it very difficult for people to flash it.
Can we start with RCS integration or opening the iMessage protocol?
Don’t buy apple?
As though the EU caused Apple to switch to USB-C. This was obviously years-in-the-making. iPads already had it.
Then why did the Iphone not change after 11 years?
An entrenched ecosystem and backlash from consumers the last time they made such a change?
EU doing something good for a change.
As opposed to what?
Chat surveillance I guess
Isn’t that the UK which isn’t EU anymore?
Chat Control is a new legislation draft. It’s getting momentum in EU institutions
But its nearly unenforcable… lol
Yes
Trying to get rid of encryption
I believe that’s the UK not the EU.
It’s kinda both, and a fair amount more.
E: lol people need to actually read the news. If people think the UK is the only government that wants to read messages then you have your head in the sand.
The EU has expressed a desire for this, the US has, Australia has, Russia has, Israel has, India has, Pakistan has, etc etc.
Speaking desire is not the same as implementing.
Of course they want to have full control, but they are listening to the experts as to why that isn’t a good idea.
In that case, neither has implemented, so you can’t complain about either.
The EU is far from perfect. But they do good stuff all the time.