iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules
EU antitrust officials on Monday identified iPadOS, Apple's operating system for iPads, as a significant digital gatekeeper under the EU's...
iPad needs this way more than iPhone as a platform. Not saying iPhone doesn't need it, just that the benefit is bigger on iPad. Both need to be opened up worldwide, not just in the EU.
Good! Open computing platforms should be the norm. I find the “but muh security” argument to be pretty shallow
Apple leverages its large ecosystem to disincentivise end users from switching to other operating systems for tablets.
No, I just like it better.
Maybe technically, but in reality there's just very few "good" tablets when it comes to hardware. Samsung has a few, but the rest's just plastic trash.
No proper hardware, no sales, no tablet android users, no android apps for tablets.
I don't see how this would fix that.
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while its end user numbers were close to the threshold
Why have a threshold if you literally ignore it?
its importance for certain use cases, such as gaming apps.
Sure, Jan. The iPad definitely has that gaming apps market gatekept!
At this point it's obvious these aren't consumer protection mechanisms as much as they're anti-tech measures meant to try to put the breaks on a highly competitive market that the EU is not a part of in hopes that home-grown alternatives can catch up.
But since the EU is so tech-hostile, why would anyone want to startup tech there?
Did you.. Just... Uh... Skip over the part where the number of business users were 11x the set threshold because you found it irrelevant to your argument or so you could remain angry and hopefully get others angry without them having the relevant information as well?
Not at all...
But why bother bringing up a way in which Apple DOES NOT meet requirements in your PR?
That's what I was pointing out, ffs. Not some grand argument you are putting on me.
For the record, unlike almost all the android folks who post constant hate and negativity on the apple enthusiast community, I like my Apple products and am annoyed that the EU is working to make them shittier for me so that they can applaud.
There's like 4 or 5 versions of this article posted to this community at once. People couldn't wait to rub it in the faces of the few of us who are here to be enthusiastic about Apple products.
It would be nice to have one community where I could enjoy the things I like without a flood of nonsense.
this is such a bad misinformed take
