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sdw2027. I set up my new iPhone. I insert my EU mandated replaceable compostable battery. I choose my default browser, phone dialer, Lock Screen, health app, NFC payment app, and Siri voice (the EU mandated an open market for Siri voices in the amended 2026 Digital Markets Act). I go to the App Store, dismiss the cookie warning, select my App Store search engine and download the Coca-Cola App Catalogue to get the Disney+ app to load up on MickeyCoins to purchase the latest Star Wars game.
Lauren Herda@sdw This is the future that Android users want.
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Francis 🏴☠️ Gulotta@sdw why should android have all the fun
Chirayu 
@sdw but you only have to do it once and they have to respect your choices throughout the process....
You are in control and not a mega Trillion 💲 Mega Corp
Felipe 
@sdw 2029, apple goes bankrupt after the independent state of California forced them to have a normal charger and turned out that was 90% of their income
Mister Moo 🐮@sdw It will never stop being weird to me to see today’s tech people argue that platforms should be closed.
Thor Schroeder@sdw i am all about competition, but that future sounds terrible, plausible, but terrible.
Paweł Orzech
spartanatreyu@sdw 📢 Bullshit detected 📢,
2027. I set up my new iPhone. The battery and software is already installed, but I can switch out anything if I want to. I go to the App Store and download the apps I want. I uninstall the apps I never open. Apple has a nonsense hissy fit with an app developer and delists their app. I download the app from the developer's website instead. I switch my browser so I can listen to youtube with the screen off without an evergrowing cruft-filled package subscription deal.
Tanner B 🆓🇵🇸@spartanatreyu @sdw lmao thank you. I cannot stand these insufferable bad faith arguments about what an open platform means for iOS.
Vigress@sdw you’re a bootlicker.
David Sheneman
julipuli 🌱@sdw wow is your ego hurt by EU decisions?
Artem R 🇺🇦@sdw how about EU mandated USB-C? And why it has to be different with macOS?
Bonkers@sdw you forgot the configurable name and gender for what used to be Siri
Casey Kelley@bonkers (Psst: you can do that now, weirdo)
@ckelley87 I live in an apple free home, no idea what they have in the appleland :)
ex3mpted 🇵🇸@sdw ... Are you sincerely advocating for a closed corporate controlled platform on a platform built on open standards, interoperability, and choice as an alternative to a corpotate controlled environment?
Thom McGrath@sdw My hope is that developers just won’t see enough volume to switch to opposing marketplaces. I personally won’t install a single one, so if there’s an app not being sold on the official App Store, they just won’t get a sale from me. But yeah, I’m not a fan of the probability that like the streaming services, the major players will all create their own marketplaces.
noiseburner@sdw I then pause, consider for a moment what has become of my mind and why, turn off my iPhone, put it in the nightstand drawer, climb into my 22 year old truck, drive down to the marina, climb aboard my 45 year old sailboat, and go sailing. I am now almost untethered from the grid, and it feels great.
TunafishTiger@sdw I can barely get my library patrons to understand how to use their current Android.
Moritz Dietz@sdw Is this you Gruber?
dxpack@sdw sure, but try to play the latest Star Wars game on your Motorola RAZR and see how far you get ;)
Mario Bariša