@stroughtonsmith fascinating. What I find hilarious is that I never had any concerns about the apple's walled garden (because all of my stuff is in it). I'd rather have the same level of scrutiny to be targeted at various LGs and VWs, where the actual UX is bad and there's no options to interop properly whatsoever.

@stroughtonsmith Thanks for bringing attention to this! Struggling for almost a year now to get the proper push notification entitlements for a client’s app where Apple just stays silent. I think we’re going to have to propose something to add during the consultation.

@stroughtonsmith ouch

« Apple will have to make available to third parties any new functionalities of the listed features once they become available to Apple. »

No room for innovation and experimentation and see how the thing actually work: you must have the feature mature from day 1 (and you’ll have to support 3rd party for a long time).

@stroughtonsmith @modulux I hope they will do the same with Meta, for the moment only them can use the Rayban sunglasses

@stroughtonsmith great thread, thanks for the sane explanations. Can't wait to see what's possible with broad access to private APIs used in Swift Playground, notifications, Watch and Health

@stroughtonsmith “well-documented frameworks” 😍

@stroughtonsmith Wow. 🤩

I’ve never seen the EC work at this level of detail so far.

@stroughtonsmith I just imagined what that could mean by an example:
- Allow 3rd party headphones to seamlessly switch
- Apple has no advantage anymore, so why not have headphones switch between >any< device
- Need for a new standard that’s eventually implemented across manufacturers
- Now I can seamlessly Switch AirPods from iPhone to Nintendo Switch to Windows to iPad

@stroughtonsmith Oh nice. Looks like they’ll need to hire some people with experience working standards development organizations. I wonder if they know anyone like that…

@stroughtonsmith @mhoye This really just sounds like the EU deciding that Apple platform benefits are somehow anticompetitive and unfair, which is a weird look.

@stroughtonsmith it’s astonishing to me how aggressively they’re wrong in this. Real “nerd becomes bully energy” 😔

@stroughtonsmith With respect to network protocols I personally think the most important thing is that Apple shouldn't *actively stop* others from implementing them.

Don't want to give me AirPlay protocol specs, fine, but if I try to reverse-engineer the protocol and implement it anyway, then I better not find that Apple is using cryptographic hardware attestation to keep third-parties out...

@stroughtonsmith So _this_ is schadenfreude. Now I get it.

@stroughtonsmith "DMA.100204 - Proposed measures", page 5 cites theapplewiki, LFG 😎

@stroughtonsmith an independent EU court has to say if Apple didn’t follow laws, not you or EC. And rules shouldn’t be used as revenge; the jungle works like that. While gatekeepers should be regulated, this entire thing looks like written by lobbyists from Facebook, Epic Games and Spotify and it’s pure 💩 Sad that fans of one side like you can’t see the reality...

@stroughtonsmith Not defending the misconduct, but surely they only began breaking the law once designated as a gatekeeper? So a couple of years at best. Or were laws other than the DMA broken?

@stroughtonsmith If apple is smart they will use this as an opportunity to build an open source ecosystem

@stroughtonsmith @ianb

On the bright side, in sci-fi stories, movies & shows, people are never stopping and asking the room ‘what devices do you have? Anyone know what to use to cast to the main screen??!’ If Apple gets their head around what’s happening here, they can potentially create and maintain the standards for the future. That would be awesome.

I hope they get on board with what’s happening here. IMHO the EU is doing a service to the future.

@stroughtonsmith I'm an open source dev myself and my initial take is that forcing companies to make private APIs public is government overreach. I want my SoundCore headphones not to suck compared to Apple ear pods, but that is not free and who should bear the cost?

@stroughtonsmith I hope they dissect google and chrome and all privacy crimes they commit to the same extent they do look at apple. That would be awesome

@stroughtonsmith where? All of them. If Apple is sent where is should have been from the start, then it will not learn anything. Or rather they will learn to fuck over end user as much as possible to get as much money as possible while they can fuck over.