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Apple plans to charge fees for sideloading (9to5mac.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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Who would've thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): "The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper."

Friendly reminder that you can sideload apps without jailbreaking or paying for a dev account using TrollStore, which utilises core trust bugs to bypass/spoof some app validation keys, on a iPhone XR or newer on iOS 14.0 up to 16.6.1. (ANY version for iPhone X and older)

Install guide: Trollstore

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The point I’m going for is that I never see such levels of spite and toxicity directed at users of other platforms, be it Android, windows, Linux or whatever.

(Which is good, because that would be just as absurd as it is when directed at Apple users.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, I'm not really sure where that vitriol comes from. I think it might be leftover nerd elitism from a time when Apple products were mostly used for art and media production (we used them heavily for Final Cut Pro and Photoshop when I worked in local television), and so a lot of tech nerds got their panties in a twist because art nerds were invading their space, but that's just a guess.

And also, that was like fifteen years ago? Let it go, if that's the reason.