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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by askonomm on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:28AM (#37735379)
But from the end-user perspective it doesn't really. Nobody consciously sets the universal clipboard up, it comes as part of the cohesive whole of the Apple ecosystem. That's my point. Whether or not you want to dive deep into nerdland of if it's a program or not is besides the point, because for the end-user none of it matters, and that's why the vertical integration is nice.
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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by abenga on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:38AM (#37736883)
Probably true. The whole vertical integration does rub me the wrong way though, it's just uncomfortable to have one company own so much of my personal computing infrastructure, especially one that is so unfriendly to "tinkerers" like me.
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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by scarface_74 on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:29AM (#37737240)
Yes because the 10% market share that Apple has in computers is really worrying…
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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by abenga on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:02PM (#37745632)
If I buy an Apple phone, tablet, and computer, that will be 100% of my computing infra, which is all that matters to me.
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Re:Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working dri... by scarface_74 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:10PM (#37770089)
Then don’t buy a device that doesn’t meet your needs? I don’t go shopping in the big and tall store expecting to find something that meets my needs when I am five foot five.
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