U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by alt227 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:36PM (#39783364)

  - A lot of these changes are like mandating that cars have a manual transmission option. Sure, there are plenty of people that love the control, but there are many, many more that appreciate not having to deal with it.

Please let governments pass legislation which mandate a manual trasmission model. I will never buy an auto!

  - Every dollar and engineering hour that Apple spends complying with these new requirements is time they won't spend on things people actually want, as well as increasing the surface area for bugs and security holes.

Except that Apple are literally the richest company in America. They could hire a thousand new programmers in a team to work 24 hours a day on these requirements and it wouldn't even tickle their profits, let alone revenue.

  - Apple is the intermediary between other companies like FB, Google, ad networks, data harvesting, government apps, etc. They can't do things on my phone because Apple forbids it. The more Apple is forced to open up, the less protection I have from other powerful players in the tech market.

If apple is forced to open up, it creates a market for more security products, meaning healthier competition and more transparent security.

  - Every place where Apple is forced to open up is a place where there's a choice that many users didn't ask for but will have to make (e.g. default browser).

Not really, safari is the only browser which is installed on a iphone by default, so normal users just use it like they did before and dont need to do anything. However other people that do want to use something different are free to.

  - I've never had to help a relative with their phone. I've had many of them come to me for help with their computers. Their and my experience with computing platforms is worse without the guardrails

Nobody is suggesting making the iphone harder to use, just allowing additional choices if thats what the user wants. The choices can be hidden away from normal users and grandma, but why cant they be there in the background for people that want them?

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by scarface_74 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:42PM (#39783438)

> If apple is forced to open up, it creates a market for more security products, meaning healthier competition and more transparent security.

Have you not had to use a third party security product on your work computer? All third party security products for computers are scams and inefficient

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by kiitos on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:45PM (#39801696)

Adding more choices, especially for fundamental stuff like we're discussing here, actually literally does make the device harder to use.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by alt227 on Sunday March 24, 2024 @07:26AM (#39806485)

All anyone is asking them to do is allow different types of app on the app store. How is that making the device harder to use?

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by kiitos on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:21PM (#39823695)

Because if you allow apps that haven't been vetted by Apple to be downloaded and executed via the app store, then grandma is inevitably going to run some malware that drains her 401k to a teenager in Russia.

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