Show me on the doll where Apple touched you.

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The fine would be approximately 10% of Apple's total revenue and the fine increases by 10% every violoation so I doubt that Apple can not accept the regulations.

Apple has also been known to ignore laws and pay fines for breaking them. The store is a major revenue stream so they might just do that.

Exactly my thoughts. "Let's jailbreak this, bypass that, circumvent that one thing..." Why do you subject yourself to this with a device you paid hundreds of dollars for?

As much as I'd like to have an iPhone, I'd rather not.

As an aside, it's the same thing with game consoles. Is the whole "you must be connected to the internet" thing still happening? That's what has been preventing me from getting a new xbox, for example.

I have a macbook and I'm quite happy, what am I doing wrong?

Velociraptors testing the fence. It may be illegal but they may get away with it if they can argue "no actually'

On the positive side, those fines could fix the finances of a few smaller EU countries in a single sweep.

I'm not too sure that these actions violate the letter of the law here, even though I agree that they're 100% in violation of the spirit of the law.

It's been some years since I've put the mobile development world behind me, in no small part because of Apple's shenanigans, but the way I understand how this might work - Apple may be required to allow "iOS software" to be installed from third party stores, but software that runs on iOS must either be signed using a certificate that only allows installation in a developer or enterprise context (which require explicit and obvious user consent to that specific use case, and come with other restrictions such as the installation only lasting for a limited period of time), or through an "appstore" certificate that allows installation on any device, but the actual application package will need to go through Apple's pipeline (where I believe it gets re-signed before final distribution on the App Store). All certificates, not just the appstore ones, are centrally managed by Apple and they do have the power to revoke, or refuse to renew, any of those certificates at-will.

If my understanding is correct (I'd appreciate if any up-to-date iOS devs could fact-check me), then Apple could introduce or maintain any restrictions they please on handling this final signing step, even if at the end of the day the resulting software is being handed back to developers to self-distribute, they can just refuse to sign the package at all, preventing installation on most consumer iOS devices, and to refuse to re-issue certificates to specific Apple developer accounts they deem in violation of their expected behavior. I haven't read the implementation of the DMA in detail, nor am I a lawyer, so I'm not sure if there are provisions in place that would block either of these actions from Apple, but I do expect that there will be a long game of cat and mouse here as Apple and the EU continue to try and one-up the other's actions.

I will never switch to iOS until they allow both sideloading and other browser engines.

I hate that I buy my phone from a shitty advertising company like Google but atleast they don't treat me like a child and let me use my universal turing machine universally.

Because it's familiar, easy, pretty and does a lot of thinking for you.

Go look through those comments for a single soul saying anything about “Google fanboys”.

I mean, I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think there have been actual "Google Fanboys" in like 10 years or so, whereas there are some real fans of Apple products and often they have good reasons to be a fan.

Apple has some shitty business practices sure, but they also produce the last consumer-level Certified UNIX machines you can easily get.

So I guess my point is Apple "fanboys" still exist because there's some valid things to be fans for in regards to Apple. (Their new in-house CPUs aren't too shabby either)

I can't think of a single thing that Google has done in ten years that has generated tech community enthusiasm or was interesting enough for anyone to fanboy over. No, they've mostly just killed all the products people liked during that time.

I mean fuck Google+ came out in 2011 and that was the beginning of the end of people giving a shit about Google.

So while I get what you're saying, I think the reality is that Google Fanboys simply stopped existing and Apple "fanboys" are probably less absurd than people make them out to be. The only Apple "fanboy" I know is a Linux Guru who uses Apple products to record music.

Another alternative is SideStore which allows to refresh apps from your phone without a computer. Just a WiFi connection. It has the benefit of working with any ios versions including the latest ones that TrollStore doesn’t support.

Apple is protecting the end user. Through charging a fee apple ensures the end user is really sure they want to sideload the app. This both creates more free storage space and helps the user sideload only the best applications... I'm still working on my corporate speech but that's what I'd imagine them saying