iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose third-party app stores

Re:iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose t... by nbvkappowqpeop on Thursday March 07, 2024 @08:50PM (#39636918)

what are you talking about?

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Re:iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose t... by paulddraper on Thursday March 07, 2024 @09:40PM (#39637238)

Believe it or not, a lot of people like FAANG products and use them daily.

Imagine taking away your toddler's favorite toy. Forever.

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Re:iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose t... by rchaud on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:44AM (#39641482)

You are joking if you think that Facebook being down would cause protests.

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Re:iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose t... by paulddraper on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:57PM (#39645583)

There was a year of protests over a 0.02 EUR/liter fuel tax.

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Re:iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose t... by overstay8930 on Thursday March 07, 2024 @08:56PM (#39636959)

You think normal people give a shit about this whole thing? The moment Facebook doesn’t work in Europe people are voting out everyone who had anything to do with this.

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Re:iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose t... by op00to on Thursday March 07, 2024 @10:02PM (#39637361)

I am a heavy technology user, and I don’t care about alternative app stores. Your everyday user cares even less.

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Re:iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose t... by bongodongobob on Thursday March 07, 2024 @09:48PM (#39637286)

People lost their minds when Meta went down for like an hour the other day...

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Re:iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose t... by paulddraper on Thursday March 07, 2024 @11:40PM (#39637849)

It was 4 hours according to their status page. [1]

[1] https://metastatus.com/facebook-login/history

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