Steve Troughton-SmithJun 21, 2024

"iPhone Mirroring, SharePlay Screen Sharing enhancements, and Apple Intelligence”

Apple's screen sharing being the only one with remote control is very clearly self-preferencing. iPhone Mirroring, though? Beats me. None of these actually hit upon DMA rules directly, so maybe Apple's just pulling out the dirty tricks to try to turn users against legislators. If they applied this imaginary criteria to all their existing software, they'd have to un-ship virtually everything
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112655635256850912

Show threadsdwJun 21, 2024
@stroughtonsmith @macrumors I mean, seriously, if you were to have to sell apps in the US and there was some kind of nebulous policy that might make you risk having to pay huge fines even on your own global income, wouldn't you pause feature rollout there until you could ensure you wouldn't be fined?
Show threadDavide Di Stefano

@sdw @stroughtonsmith @macrumors this is the new normal for every EU software developer: you study the law and try to apply it in the best way possible. If this is the case you have to fear nothing, because even in the worst scenario you can prove your good intentions and fix the problem as fast as possible.

I don’t get why Apple couldn’t do this while every software company I worked on could do it (even small startups)

Jun 21, 2024 at 9:03pmWeb