Aw yes, the executive order. The epitome of a democracy.
Apple should just do 80% of what they're asking voluntarily and then they'll shut up.
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Biden Administration Report Recommends Sweeping Changes to Apple's Ecosystem
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Aw yes, the executive order. The epitome of a democracy.
Apple should just do 80% of what they're asking voluntarily and then they'll shut up.
Actually just one: Google. That’s it. Over 90% of the phones that aren’t iphones use Android. That’s not good. These giants need to be broken up. We need more alternatives. What about those of us who dislike both Apple and Android? guess we’re going to have to settle with living without a phone.
This is as insane as it is stupid. Apple has a minority of market share compared to Android and should not be subject to any monopolist targeting measures. They also created their entire market from scratch and should do with it as they please. Let consumers vote with their wallets. This is completely unAmerican and anti-capitalist.
What’s next? Forcing separation of the hardware and the software so users can install Android on an iPhone?
Here’s an idea: Car manufacturers should build cars that allow steering wheels between different companies to be hot-swappable!
What’s next? Forcing separation of the hardware and the software so users can install Android on an iPhone?
Here’s an idea: Car manufacturers should build cars that allow steering wheels between different companies to be hot-swappable!
I love how some people still think JOE BIDEN is a 'good president' 2 years after nonstop catastrophe and decay in the West. And when there's failure, it's always 'incompetence' or 'congress' - no room for further debate or nuance. Inconceivable that it's being willfully done, even though he's a WEF/OSF globalist diehard.
A much poorer nation that refuses to acknowledge what a recession (and soon a depression) is, impending WW3 and nuclear war, wide open borders, runaway cost of living increases with inflation, installed DA's siding with violent criminals not victims, child abuse and indoctrination in schools, the list goes on and on and on... I wonder what's next.
I preferred mean tweets, but you do you on 24/7 mental gymnastics to make this all a good or even benign thing.
A much poorer nation that refuses to acknowledge what a recession (and soon a depression) is, impending WW3 and nuclear war, wide open borders, runaway cost of living increases with inflation, installed DA's siding with violent criminals not victims, child abuse and indoctrination in schools, the list goes on and on and on... I wonder what's next.
I preferred mean tweets, but you do you on 24/7 mental gymnastics to make this all a good or even benign thing.
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So, you’re saying that as long as there is an alternative, two companies should be allowed to engage in anticompetitive behavior in a market they dominate?
Apple should be able to do whatever it wants with iOS because there is Android and Google should be able to do whatever it wants with Android because there is iOS?
"If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the app store you have, you can keep your app store, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold."
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Where do I even start with this.
Bet you literally take everything said at a keynote as gospel.
HUH?
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Luckily, the guy can't even tie his own shoes, so I doubt he gets anything done.
If someone wants to acquire a PlayStation game, there are numerous stores and websites they can easily go to and ways they can pay. They can also buy privately ("used").
By comparison, Apple is far more restrictive with the iPhone/iOS.
Not every one is a super nerd that can defend against what I mentioned.
I'd prefer Biden make right of repair & user replaceable batteries a bigger priority.
It would extend the life of smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop ~1 decade.
I'm having fun thinking how this article would have been written and the comments had it been "Trump Administration Report Recommends..." 😄
Heads would have exploded. Heck just Trump originally going after TikTok had everyone up in arms. Not to mention all the censoring the Biden administration was a part of working with Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. during the COVID years. Makes you wonder what they're up to? 🧐
Heads would have exploded. Heck just Trump originally going after TikTok had everyone up in arms. Not to mention all the censoring the Biden administration was a part of working with Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. during the COVID years. Makes you wonder what they're up to? 🧐
Will be nice to have things that Don’t have to be so family friendly ridiculous like apple currently enforces
Maybe Biden should fix the country before "fixing" Apple. They can't be voted out of office fast enough.
So you think there is a person out there, just waiting to become the perfect next president?
Sorry for destroying your illusion, but nobody will ever be able to satisfy a whole nation, and any president/party will make good and wrong decisions.
Regarding the poverty in the USA, that's not a party or president issue, that's a core issue that exist since many centuries.
Nor Biden, nor Trump, nor [insert name here] will be able to fix that in the USA anytime soon, this requires a core nationwide mindset flip. People cheering Apple (just another unimportant company in the timeline of humanity) shows that America is not ready for fixing this yet.
Actually the whole humanity is not ready to fix this yet and probably never will be.
Which should tell you that it’s very very very overdue
well, the devil is in the details. legislation is needed, congress is divided and 98% of lawmakers are bought off by our system of legalized bribery via campaign donations and superPAC dark money by big tech and they'll never vote against their owner donors. #america
How about no...if you want that, you have options. Apple does not have a monopoly on smartphones, tablets or computers. If people arn't happy with the Apple ecosystem they can leave. The things sleepy joe is wanting to change is the reason I use apple. Typical big government bs.
If you don't like it go to android...
It's a report with recommendations, that's it. We'll see what legislation actually comes out of this likely being a long time from now.
I'm glad you accept egregiously sub par performance as 'so... you want a perfect president?'
No, I am an adult I don't need to be coddled in every facet of my life by some imaginative tooth fairy, or be forced to listen to nonstop random generic speeches about emotions to make me instantly forget about the garbage policies they put forth that are incongruent with everything they purport to be about, simply because 'it's the cool thing to do' and to fit in. I will easily settle for someone who ideologically wants US to succeed and be strong and better, not to fail, and be weaker and worse.
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Pretty much. Things are fine just the way they are. To your point, there are always alternatives, and not just these two.