Steve StrezaJun 21, 2024

This is the framing Apple wants to sell for their decision to withhold features from the EU, and blogs are parroting it.

In reality, Apple is purposefully withholding these features from the EU, either because Apple are being retaliatory against EU customers for the existence of the DMA, or because Apple (with full knowledge of the DMA for years) refused to build these features in compliance with it.

Apple chose to harm their products in the EU. The DMA didn't. This framing is marketing.

Show threadSteve StrezaJun 21, 2024
I genuinely don't understand what Apple's trying to do with this pissing match with the EU. If the goal is to drum up public opinion against the DMA, Apple's a "multiple trillions of dollars" company, they aren't the scrappy upstart making quirky iPod ads in the 2000s, they ARE the institutional player. Nobody has sympathy for "uwu we are being bullied by regulators" from the mouths of the megacorp.
Show threadSebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Jun 22, 2024

@stevestreza but we should have sympathy for this commission that tells us we are too stupid to choose for ourselves what we want?

Apple’s closed system has always been proven lightyears ahead when it comes down to privacy and security.

In the meanwhile in the EU we are still clicking “reject cookies” on every website whilst cookies are still being installed. 🙄

Show threadCyJun 22, 2024
choose for ourselves
That's the same argument people made to kill universal health care in the USA. All about choice, innit? Thank goodness I get to choose how Apple gets to bleed me dry. Thank goodness I get to choose which private company gets to deny me health care. Thank goodness I get to struggle to choose which shitty product on the shelves, when all I want is 1 good choice. Slave not happy with their current master? They can choose a different master! It's a free country!

CC: @[email protected]
Show threadSebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Jun 22, 2024
@cy Yep! “Choice” is what the EU is promising with the DMA and in the meanwhile killing off privacy and security for all EU citizens. 🤷🏽‍♂️
@stevestreza
Show threadCyJun 22, 2024
Well, that sucks. I don't know much about the DMA, only that having (ugh) Apple as a choice really doesn't help anyone.

CC: @[email protected]
Show threadSebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Jun 22, 2024
@cy yeah let’s have no choice. 🙄 @stevestreza
Show threadCyJun 22, 2024
No choice, bad choices, same thing really. How about a good choice?

CC: @[email protected]
Show threadSebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Jun 22, 2024
@cy
There was a good choice. Maybe not your choice but don’t dictate what I should choose!
@stevestreza
Show threadCyJun 22, 2024
I don't care about your choice, or my choice. Only idiots care about choice. What matters is satisfaction. If I could force you to choose something that really is "lightyears ahead when it comes down to privacy and security" would you really complain?
Show threadSebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Jun 22, 2024
@cy if you could offer me an alternative to Apple I would not complain but you don’t have an alternative or a clue 🙄
Show threadCyJun 23, 2024
Use rsync and ssh if you want to mirror files between devices.
Show threadSebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Jun 23, 2024
@cy that’s all you can come up with? That is not sufficient. You don’t have the answers! You know shit!
Show threadCy
Oh no, my genius idea is shit. And amazingly enough, you really do have the choice to use rsync and ssh, yet you choose not to. But does it matter? What matters is if there's a good solution, not more choices.
Jun 23, 2024 at 6:25amWeb
Show threadSebastien 🌍 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Jun 23, 2024

@cy “that's the same argument people made to kill universal healthcare care”

Please be consistent in your thoughts