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Apple's press release about changes to EU App Store
Since people were talking about this last week:
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“The new options for processing payments and downloading apps on iOS open new avenues for malware, fraud and scams, illicit and harmful content, and other privacy and security threats.”
Well they’re not wrong…
Ha ha! That is a masterpiece of flicking boogers at the EU. (That's not to say I support Apple's tactics, only that I can't help but respect their massively creative fuckyouery.)
Wow. So, if a developer wants to jump through all those hoops just to have an alternative delivery / payment mechanism, their efforts are limited to only the EU countries. EU customers will have to navigate a bewildering and scary maze of "options" and warnings, while being passive aggressively singled out from the rest of the world to put up with all that. I bet EU countries pricing goes up to support all this "massive" undertaking by Apple.
Machiavelli would be in awe.
Jeeze - there is so much they've managed to layer on to make this seem scary and a pain in the butt. I'm only 2/3 reading through it and my mind is boggled. This is going to be fascinating.
Summary: “Good luck if you f*ck up your phone after we have explained the risks.”
Apple just needs to warn people they lose their warranty if they install unknown software on their iOS / iPadOS devices.
It goes a lot farther than that. Much of it is dire warnings about potential privacy violations and financial fraud.
The EU idea was born out of great ideals and turned into this…monster destroying the countries freedom
They are over staffed mostly by people who did not make it into big corporations and now take their sad revenge.
Btw I am not at all an Apple supporter
Some may remember the Cydia era in iOS land where Cybercriminals exploited it to install spyware on iPhone users who were considered high value targets.
Some of what Apple is saying here is that this is what EU is enabling, if not sponsoring.
The tone nearly approaches Steve Jobs intensity…I think he would have gone harder…recall he referred to some new French law as “State Sponsored Piracy”
Pure apple scaremongering, they make it sound like opening themselves to competing App Stores and payment systems is a blind jump into the unknown, when in fact desktop mac has worked exactly like this since forever and somehow we managed to avoid the apocalypse.
On my mac i can buy games from Steam, get music or media without paying a cut to apple, write and run my own software and it’s just fine.
They fact that it took the concerted anti-monopoly efforts of an entire continent to make something remotely similar possible on an ipad just shows the worrying scope of apple’s corporate influence. Anyway this is EU for now but there are similar efforts underway in japan and the us so we’ll see how it pans out.
They sure did pull out all the stops to make themselves put as the crusading hero being piled on by huge and vicious monsters who are also coming for you.
Sounds more like a the tantrum of a three year old to me.
(This from someone basically against government meddling in things like this.)
As far as I know 17.4 will be the minimum required OS version for this and I have my doubts where the older devices will get the features so it will be interesting to see how Apple deals with this for older devices that are still in active use in the EU.
“ Even with these safeguards in place, many risks remain.”
You will probably need a Valium pill when taking the alternative route.
Most of my Mac software is from third party’s, ohhhh so scary…..
Exactly. Somehow they made the iOS environment a super closed system that protects us from the bad world, but on the Mac you can do whatever.
As the UK is no longer in the EU, does that mean it doesn't apply here?
...and will the changes to browsers mean web MIDI will be possible? That could be really useful!
"The new capabilities will become available to users in the 27 EU countries beginning in March 2024."
So, nope!
Gah, I'll just have to be content with how safe my blower is then!
I’m curious to see what happens. Hopefully the EU will fight back and make Apple lift their ridiculous rules on apps sold outside of the App Store.
I also find the security barrier ridiculous that I always have to go through when installing a non certified app on Mac.
On my two iPads dedicated to music and visual art, nothing will be changed, but I support freedom of choice, no matter the costs. 🤩
Does this meant there might be a possibility of a developer releasing a system-wide EQ for iOS, or will 3rd-part devs still be prohibited?
This isn't just about the EU, changes will also happen in UK and US and the rest of the world eventually, as individual countries they're just slower in keeping up with changes which (unfortunately) needs to be made.
I think it will be a hard sell in the US, so not sure that one will be coming soon. There’s a lot of resistance here to government interference, even when it’s for something extremely beneficial.
(I’m not going to take this thread in the wrong direction by being specific, but you only need to read news articles to see some examples).
Good to see that Apple is open about this and openly criticizes the ruling.
"Notarization" of all apps -- sounds like more burocracy for developers already living on very tight budgets. Oh dear!
"Alternative browser engines" -- this is the one point I could actually consider a good thing -- given that Webkit is "the new IE", this might make targeting iOS for hybrid web apps more feasible. Electron for iOS? Hell yeah!
Apples and oranges. The Mac was open when it was released and the iPhone was released significantly later with the opportunity to manage new app installations from the get-go.
It's great news for developers and consumers overall, but they still haven't done enough and are being accused of Malicious Compliance. I haven't read all the small print but they're just inventing more illegal taxes to developers if you (dare to) go outside the appstore.
The EU brought this onto themselves, and in the end history will show it was a massive "shoot themselves in the foot" moment!
Yes, but however it is usually not just you, you will damage if you stupidly allow malware, spyware and trojans on to your system. With how the world of contacts on the Apple platform works, and with FB also intrinsically linked, you will be damaging many other innocent folks! Just look at Facebook account hacks and the damage they cause!
This "closed" system of Apples (and one that is inherently safer than the open world of Android and Windows) was one of the main reasons I ditched Windows after decades of use!
To then be at risk of being somehow affected by someone else's' greed, stupidity or sheer boredom beggars belief.