US antitrust case against Apple App Store is 'firing on all cylinders'
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The US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is “firing on all cylinders” according to the head of the...

US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is ‘firing on all cylinders’::The US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is “firing on all cylinders” according to the head of the…

    • @Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11•2 years ago

      (3) is by far the most important, but I can’t see how it will get attention from legislators or regulators.

      Also, even if it happens, how could we ensure that service providers (say a bank) don’t start enforcing hardware based attestation?

      We’d either need non-attested devices to be common enough for them not to bother blocking them (we are here now), or explicitly protect the right to software freedom. Maybe as part of a more general right-to-repair?

  • @kittenzrulz123@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    I hope they force Apple and other OEMs to allow alternate OSs as well, if I want to install Linux on my phone I should be able to.

  • @M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    That’s so interesting. I hope that once they lose control of iOS, they allow iPads and even iPhone to run full macOS when docked.

    It could work like the steamdeck where it can be in desktop or handheld mode. When in handheld mode, certain apps that run in the background, like Dropbox would stop running to maximize battery life or something.

    • @GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Apple’s been moving toward unifying their OSes for over a decade now. They’re playing the long game. They probably still have another decade (or two) to go.

      Apple’s stance now is clear: developers need to make universal apps if they want them to run on both platforms, using tools and frameworks that are common to both. It’s much easier to make an iPad app run well on a Mac than vice-versa. I use some Mac apps that were ported from iPad, and the experience ranges from “okay” to “perfect”, depending on how much care the devs put into it. This is obviously the future of Mac software development, but it would require rewriting many apps almost from scratch. Apple’s not going to pull that rug out from under us anytime soon.

      The next natural step would be to allow iPads to use the “desktop” UI of universal apps when connected to a keyboard and mouse. But I don’t think we’ll ever see iPads running arbitrary Mac apps. When I think of the Mac-only apps I use, I just don’t see how they’d run on iPad. How am I gonna run BBEdit on an iPad when there are hundreds of menu items, and a ton of UI elements that are like 8 pixels square? Never mind the lack of a real file system.

      Microsoft tried this with Windows 8. It went poorly. The experience of using desktop apps with a touch screen sucks, and trying to make desktop UIs touchscreen-friendly across the board just handicapped desktop users. Apple has a better strategy here. They’re slowly molding the software ecosystem to make this Not Suck.

      • @M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        I doubt it will be a decade or 2 we are basically there on iPad and android can do this. If Apple opens the flood gates on this devs will jump aboard quickly.

    • @narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      They aren’t restricting iPads to iPadOS because of the App Store, but because they want to sell Macs to those who want to use macOS, ideally in addition to an iPad. I don’t see it happening.