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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by ajross on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:12PM (#39405983)
That analogy doesn't make sense to me. Apple isn't pulling the iPhone from the market, they're breaking iPhones that were already sold. The equivalent would be if you said you couldn't sell green aquarium lights anymore, and aquarium light vendors turned all the green aquariums off remotely.
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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by paulddraper on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:19PM (#39406022)
You can keep using your green aquarium lights all you want.

But if you install their newest version of aquarium lights, they won't have a green option.

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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by ajross on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:34AM (#39409737)
No, you already bought the lights, and they've always been green. You don't "install the newest version" of lights. Just like you don't for hardware devices like phones. You install software updates, which clearly have a presumption of not removing features for which you paid. That's just straight up common law warranty stuff, come on.

Again, this kind of allegorical confusion is generally a sign that you're wrong and trying to cheat. Which Apple is, clearly.

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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by paulddraper on Saturday February 17, 2024 @04:00PM (#39413510)
> software updates which clearly have a presumption of not removing features

oof, that is not a good assumption

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