Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by hedora on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:11PM (#39133661)

Only having to deal with Apple's BS is likely better than being at the whims of all the dominant players. The latter creates a race to the bottom with no hope of improving the ecosystem.

I think that's the main reason iOS is slowly eating Android's global market share, and why it remains the market leader in the US. As bad as iOS is for privacy and respecting user choice, Android is worse in practice. There's an argument that Android's openness benefits the end user, but it falls apart in practice: almost all third party apps (and certainly the ones that other people force you to use) depend on Play Services, which is a giant pile of surveillance capitalism and battery drain.

Having said that, I'd like to be able to toggle my iPhone into EU mode and sideload a few things.

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by mcfedr on Thursday January 25, 2024 @03:10PM (#39134530)

I think lock-in (iMessage and such) better explains apple's growth, and an unlimited marketing budget

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Re:Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store... by hedora on Saturday January 27, 2024 @11:12AM (#39156701)

I thought that until I tried to switch back to Android, and found that there simply aren't good alternatives to the preloaded iOS software. Try replacing Notes with an E2E-encrypted alternative that supports collaborative editing, for example. I hit a half dozen things like that.

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