This is nonsense. Users would be free to stick to the Apple app-store and apps. What it means is those that wish to install from alternative locations, can.

Competition in the app store space is a good thing. Competition generally is a good thing. This is what it is about.

Scaremongering this kind of nonsense to suppose walled-garden ecosystems (that primarily benefit the gardener, not the plants) is a stretch.

It's the same with payments. Why should Apple not only dictate what software I can and can not use on my device, but also force those developers to use an officially sanctioned payment API so they can take a fat cut?

Congratulations to the EU indeed, for the right reasons.

> This is nonsense. Users would be free to stick to the Apple app-store and apps. What it means is those that wish to install from alternative locations, can.

And that will be great news to scammers, hackers and criminals that have been easily plaguing their malware and trojans on infected Android for years to do the same on iOS apps to go all open season on the platform.

> Competition in the app store space is a good thing. Competition generally is a good thing. This is what it is about.

Exactly. Is that why you have chosen to not use a Linux phone? Maybe the competition outside of Android and iOS is not competing hard enough and instead resorted to shutting down and giving up and had to scream and cry at Google and Apple for being so successful.

> Scaremongering this kind of nonsense to suppose walled-garden ecosystems (that primarily benefit the gardener, not the plants) is a stretch.

Scaremongering? Why is it that over the space of 8 years Android has been plagued more by ransomware [0], malware, and attacks delivered by sideloading? [1] than iOS has? Bringing the same security ills and problems found on Android devices into iOS can only result in creating more problems than solving them.

> Congratulations to the EU indeed, for the right reasons.

   Nope. Not so fast.

I don't think there is anything to celebrate here, unless you want to see a new era of easy side-loading cracked apps, to users to easily encounter ransomware on their phones and have it take payment with private cryptocurrencies like Monero.

We will see MORE of the same problems found on the desktop in iOS and the greatest targets are frequent users in mobile banking, cryptocurrency wallets, etc to steal from. None of what I said is 'nonsense', 'scaremongering', etc as it is already happening on Android.

[0] https://blog.knowbe4.com/evolution-of-mobile-ransomware

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/roaming-manti...

Nonsense. You can't fight spam, criminal or hackers by restricting your ecosystem. Such measures only enable monopolies like Apple to make money at the expense of the consumer or competitors.

you mean all those diplomats and journalists where not using compromised iphones?.... hahaha come on now...

So we are not going talk about the billions of Android phones still with unpatched 0 days that have been abandoned and haven't been fixed for years infected with ransomware?

Is that why over the space of 8 years, there has been only ONE ransomware case for iOS found vs 7+ and counting on Android with 900,000 devices infected in just 30 days? [0]

Of course you won't. Your comment is beside my point which I didn't say that iOS devices couldn't be hacked, compromised or attacked. My first reply specifically mentions the handling of this is done better on Apple devices, especially iOS devices.

As soon as a 0 day is found, the OTA rollout covers more than >60% of supported devices in less than a week after releasing, even on the 6 - 7 major versions below.

But of course, it appears you just had to deliberately misconstrue and misinterpret my replies, which happens very often with readers who rush into the comments section and never finish reading the whole comment.

What a shame.

[0] https://blog.knowbe4.com/evolution-of-mobile-ransomware

Calling EU politicians tech bros is frankly hilarious, thanks for the laugh, your display of complete lack of knowledge on the subject is very entertaining.

Quite frankly unsurprised by the very low level of reading comprehension by most of the replies here since not only you couldn't even reference where I even said that, but resorted to creating a straw-man.

Google, Mozilla, etc isn't the 'EU' that is making the significant changes at the W3C and they are the ones that spread the lies of the open-web in the first place which also explains how Google completely overtook Mozilla who just watched them and did absolutely nothing to stop them; hence why they are today crying that no-one is using their browser, despite being in the pockets of Google.

The opening up of browser choices on mobile is a red herring, as I already explained. It will allow Chrome to just get even stronger as we have already seen on Android. So it is in fact naive to think that anything on this will change.