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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by troupo on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:23AM (#39591514)
> Everyone is limited to what Apple allows in their walled garden whether they choose it or not.

And those limitations are?

iMessage? The world outside the US doesn't use iMessage that much. It's Whatsapp, and Facebook Messenger, and Telegram, and Viber, and...

Apple Photos? I have Google Photos on my iPhone, and they work better and faster than Apple's own

Actually, I struggle to think what Apple-exclusive things I use apart from Safari (and I've been using it on macs since 2007 or so).

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by lukeschlather on Monday March 04, 2024 @06:48PM (#39597668)
So, one example I can give is Briar, which is a distributed messaging app. I don't know that I actually want to use Briar, but in order for it to be useful to me it would need to run on iOS, since I have too many people I would want to use it with who use iOS.

You can't see the things that aren't allowed, because they don't exist. The Briar team hasn't even built an iOS app because they know it would be rejected.

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Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif... by troupo on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:14AM (#39600300)
Of course Briar would not be rejected. It's not on iOS for a purely technical reason: it just wouldn't work there the way it's designed to work:

- https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/issues/445

- https://sourceforge.net/p/briar/mailman/message/36415432/

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