Apple as anticompetitive as always, they rather make their user’s experience worse and blame the goverment for pushing regulations than to allow others to compete in fair grounds against them
Funniest thing is that if EU came up with an open and interoperable standard on their own Apple would be saying it’s either bad or forced upon them and that they’d do it better.
Yeah, I’m with Apple on this one.
In the old days, instead of legislating stuff like this, governments, companies and NGOs would come up with a standard for interoperability. Everyone that participates benefits and safeguards can be put in place.
This legislation exists so that Apple is incentivised to develop interoperable systems. Apple opted to degrade experience for everybody rather than allow for level playing field.
Gotta open it up so Meta can data farm apple watch user data, and make it so apple watch owners have to type in the 64 character wifi password. Win win for everyone 🙂
If I want to give my data to Meta, the same way I give it to Apple, that’s my choice. If I can’t give it to Meta then I can’t give it to an open source Pebble watch either and that doesn’t sound as good, eh?
Yeah, better to just turn this off. Id rather not have random, unvetted hardware controlling my iphone hardware. Lock all that garbage out. I want my privacy and security.
In this weird scenario I think your Apple hardware is perfectly safe, nobody is going to buy and pair third party devices for you forcibly.
And if I did, i wouldn’t want it secretly exfiltrating everything about me to third party servers from companies that actively refuse to follow laws and regulations regarding data privacy and protections.
Why would you buy it then?
governments, companies and NGOs would come up with a standard for interoperability. Everyone that participates benefits
Are you thinking of a different Apple? We’re all thinking of the one that does everything they can to lock their users into the Apple way of doing things and considers interoperability to be a four letter word.
