EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by LeoNatan25 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:21PM (#37667250)

All of that is already accounted for and protected by in the OS. An app cannot normally register daemons or agent (or even an XPC service). Installing is already limited to FrontBoard standard installation mechanism. All that will remain in a possible open iOS future.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by martimarkov on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:59PM (#37667663)

Except usage of private APIs?

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by LeoNatan25 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:06PM (#37667740)

I can hide any private API usage already for normal store submission. If I am the tiniest bit careful, I will get away with most private stuff that is still not protected by the kernel using entitlements. For example,

https://github.com/LeoNatan/LNExtensionExecutor

This is a framework I obfuscate API usage, and is present in several App Store apps that I know of.

Apple security comes from kernel hardening, not static API analysis.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by martimarkov on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:19PM (#37667892)

Fair enough I need to look more into it. Thanks for the info

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by singularity2001 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:26AM (#37670554)

Until Apple detects its usage and bans your account for breaking TOS?

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by LeoNatan25 on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @12:01PM (#37676684)

That framework’s logic has not changed in years, and neither has Apple’s static analysis checker. It’s just security theater at this point.

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by labcomputer on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:43PM (#37668707)

> An app cannot normally register daemons or agent (or even an XPC service). Installing is already limited to FrontBoard standard installation mechanism. All that will remain in a possible open iOS future.

So Apple won’t comply with the EU law then?

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Re:EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals by ThatPlayer on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:37AM (#37671822)

EU law doesn't have any requirements to change that.

The only requirement is that any APIs first party Apple services use can also be used by competing 3rd parties. If Apple isn't using those features in any competing services, they don't have to open it up for everyone. Alternately they could remove those APIs from their own apps and still be complying.

The goal is fair competition. I should be able have Google Pay to compete with Apple Pay, but Apple don't let other apps use the NFC for that. It's not fair competition when iMessage can be your default SMS app, but WeChat/WhatsApp can't. But if Apple choose to, they could separate iMessage and SMS and still be fine under EU law, cuz now none of the competing iMessage/WeChat/WhatsApp will be your SMS app.

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