EU will require Apple to open up iMessage

Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by gambiting on Thursday March 02, 2023 @09:52AM (#34996342)

>>Tomorrow I can guarantee they will immediately cut costs and ship out piles of sideloaded garbage

Yeah except that's absolute nonsense because you could already do that on Android and yet I recall only one instance where a developer explicitly asked me to sideload an app(for Fortnite, no less). It's going to remain an incredible niche that will affect 0.00001% users at most.

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by tekknik on Thursday March 02, 2023 @10:29AM (#34996844)

Then what’s the point of forcing these companies to allow it? If it only affects such a small user base then money regulating it is clearly being wasted and should be used for something that will affect more people’s lives?

Clearly they believe that number is much higher.

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Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage by gambiting on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:02PM (#34998361)

I think you are looking at it from the wrong perspective. It will affect hundreds of millions of iOS users. Whether these users choose to use their newly given freedom to install software not controlled by Apple is up to them - but the legislation affects 100% of iOS userbase.

(in hindsight I shouldn't have said it will affect 0.0001% users - maybe I should have said that I guess only that many users will choose to sideload software instead)

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