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Steve Streza

@heals You and/or Apple are free to lobby for changes to the DMA all you like, that doesn't change the present reality that Apple is choosing to make their products worse in the EU while also conducting business in the EU, and they don't get a pass on it because a regulatory framework isn't perfect.

21 June at 20:48 | Open on indieweb.social
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Heals :heart_nb: (comms open)

@stevestreza I would honestly not count a platform wide feeding of my personal data to an AI model an improvement. Neither is the addition to Share play. The one thing that would havelbeen?nice is the remote iPhone screen on a mac but I guess I'll survive as I have since 2007.

I am happy that I do not have to look for a system wide toggle to disable Apple intelligence.

21 June at 20:50 | Open on indiepocalypse.social
Heals :heart_nb: (comms open)

@stevestreza same goes for the DMA's cross-messenger demands without any clear definition of *how* or *who* is responsible to handle the interaction between different E2E encrypted services - someone just went "I want to message WhatsApp from Signal, make it work" without consideration of integrity, privacy or compliance to the GDPR or the E2E security.

21 June at 20:54 | Open on indiepocalypse.social
Arnaud

@heals This. Very much this. I’m very annoyed that since Apple is against the DMA we can’t say anything bad about it without being categorized at Apple bootlickers.

I honestly believe that the messaging interoperability requirement is volountarily something that weakens E2E to put a foot into the door for messaging app snooping: all you need is to get one app to comply and you get messages from other services, yay!

And then chat control showed up silently.

22 June at 8:02 | Open on mastodon.online
damon

@stevestreza @heals if that’s the case then like any business Apple will suffer for it when people vote with their wallets

21 June at 20:59 | Open on social.wedistribute.org
Joseph Cursio

@stevestreza @heals Apple is not making products *worse* in the EU, they’re making products *less anti-competitive* in the EU ;)

Seriously though, I think Apple is anticipating that the EU could find those new features anti-competitive, and fine Apple tens of billions (more?) as a result. That fine could easily be way more than the value-added from the new features. I expect parties to act in their own best interest.

22 June at 0:58 | Open on mastodon.social
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