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Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 'letter of credit' (9to5mac.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] sir_reginald 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

the problem is firmware. the community has been porting postmarketos to android phones for years, there are a ton of phones where PmOS will boot but most things like camera, phone service or bluetooth won't work because they are missing the firmware necessary.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't get in the details. But, of course, a such regulation includes the availability of the firmware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It'd be one hell of a battle considering companies would probably just pull a Microsoft and release the specifications as horrendously as possibly so no one can use them but their army of devs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's PmOS lol, POS stands for Piece of shit (or point of sale if capitalized as PoS)

[–] sir_reginald 1 points 10 months ago

good to know, I'm not a native speaker lol