Just a reminder to everybody supporting government overreach, while you’re enjoying your third party apps the EU is making moves to destroy your privacy:
you guys are so fucked and nobody is going to feel bad. this dude literally included a link showing the EU trying to force browsers to trust government issued certs, and you’re talking about “apple fanboys”. when your entire phone can be read by the government with zero warrant I don’t wanna hear one fucking complaint from you, just sit down and be quiet and have no privacy.
Smartest post I’ve seen all day. A lot of the changes Apple have been forced to make are ones many of us wanted anyway, I really wanted USB-C so I was happy, but this isn’t the right way about it. “You must use this kind of cable by law”, what if somebody comes up with something better now? Imagine what today’s phones would look like if they made such a ruling back when USB-A was the standard.
Not to mention none of these people are elected, not even by the people in EU countries, so it just seems extra weird that they can make such seemingly arbitrary decisions that have a profound effect worldwide.
Yes, USB-C is good, and I’m sure many people will be happy about 3rd party app stores, but like you say, what next? We can’t always guarantee it’ll be something good or right.
The part you are wrong about is where you think people are smart enough to understand this. They are not. Full stop. They just aren’t. They’re shortsighted, emotional, and naive. They will only cry about how it’s bullshit that their phone scans their photos, when it becomes reality. Right now they think they can have some centralized authority that controls what features must be in a phone, but somehow prevent that authority from using that power against them. That is stupid. They cannot answer the question “how are you going to feel when the EU mandates an unpopular change?” – that you asked of them. They can’t answer it because they simply think it won’t happen.
Most people do not understand, or refuse to accept, the reality that there are tradeoffs to every decision. Yes it is annoying that Apple won’t open their walled garden. Yes it is obnoxious that I need to pay $100 a fucking year just to write an app to use on my own goddamn phone. That pisses me off. But if the alternative is letting the government MANDATE that I am allowed to install that app, I’ll pass. Because I know the next mandate will be an app I very much do not want.
I look forward to when we have no legal encryption anymore. People will blame left wingers, right wingers, capitalists, communists, anyone but themselves.
Just a reminder to everybody supporting government overreach, while you’re enjoying your third party apps the EU is making moves to destroy your privacy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/17rg58f/eu_article_45_requires_that_browsers_trust/
apple fanboys trying their hardest to defend the anti-consumer interests of a huge company is sth I’ll never be able to understand.
“Please daddy apple limit my ability do what I want with the device I bought and legally own” 😂
you guys are so fucked and nobody is going to feel bad. this dude literally included a link showing the EU trying to force browsers to trust government issued certs, and you’re talking about “apple fanboys”. when your entire phone can be read by the government with zero warrant I don’t wanna hear one fucking complaint from you, just sit down and be quiet and have no privacy.
Ofc I know the shit the eu has been cooking up related to e2e and am against it.
That doesn’t mean I don’t support the EU having that kind of power, as you can see, a lot of good can come from it.
It’s the same with every government. “government can do bad thing, therefore it shouldn’t be able to do anything”
Smartest post I’ve seen all day. A lot of the changes Apple have been forced to make are ones many of us wanted anyway, I really wanted USB-C so I was happy, but this isn’t the right way about it. “You must use this kind of cable by law”, what if somebody comes up with something better now? Imagine what today’s phones would look like if they made such a ruling back when USB-A was the standard.
Not to mention none of these people are elected, not even by the people in EU countries, so it just seems extra weird that they can make such seemingly arbitrary decisions that have a profound effect worldwide.
Yes, USB-C is good, and I’m sure many people will be happy about 3rd party app stores, but like you say, what next? We can’t always guarantee it’ll be something good or right.
The part you are wrong about is where you think people are smart enough to understand this. They are not. Full stop. They just aren’t. They’re shortsighted, emotional, and naive. They will only cry about how it’s bullshit that their phone scans their photos, when it becomes reality. Right now they think they can have some centralized authority that controls what features must be in a phone, but somehow prevent that authority from using that power against them. That is stupid. They cannot answer the question “how are you going to feel when the EU mandates an unpopular change?” – that you asked of them. They can’t answer it because they simply think it won’t happen.
Most people do not understand, or refuse to accept, the reality that there are tradeoffs to every decision. Yes it is annoying that Apple won’t open their walled garden. Yes it is obnoxious that I need to pay $100 a fucking year just to write an app to use on my own goddamn phone. That pisses me off. But if the alternative is letting the government MANDATE that I am allowed to install that app, I’ll pass. Because I know the next mandate will be an app I very much do not want.
I look forward to when we have no legal encryption anymore. People will blame left wingers, right wingers, capitalists, communists, anyone but themselves.
Hope USB-C and sideloading is worth it.