After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must ‘open up its gates to competitors’.::The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other…
I would love to see the looks on the Apple execs’ faces when they learn news like this. Those greedy cunts must get a rage boner every time they’re forced to act like decent world citizens
Finally someone is fighting those companies that take advantage of controlling the platforms.
Can’t happen soon enough. Personally, I’d wish this would go much further and would allow every device to be flashable, with only a few exceptions for safety, like cars.
There’s also a certain irony that certain other places will go to bat for right to repair, and then turn around and say “Actually, I want to live in a walled garden.”, not realizing that these are two sides of the same coin.
with only a few exceptions for safety, like cars.
No. There are three main bullshit arguments being used by lobbyists actively making the world a worse place by fighting against this type of legislation.
- safety and security
- intellectual propery rights
- hindering innovation
All three are demonstrably used in hearings to convince legislators to not sign right to repair bills into law. And all three are absolute bullshit.
Replacing the brakes on your own car is not generally seen as introducing safety risks, so why would software be any different? The only things that actually make cars safe are competent drivers (wether flesh and bone, or digital) and proper manufacturing (so no malfunctioning during use).
There is a reason full self driving is not legal in most places worldwide, and likely won’t be for a very long time. We’ve seen too many examples of software fuck ups and the legal responsibility in case of an accident is still a difficult part of the equation.
If we’re able to integrate full infotainment systems into cars, and all kinds of AI gadgets for driving assistance. We should be able to make cars safer even if the software is user servicable.
No more gatekeeping bullshit.
How about Apple laptops next, including specs to write drivers.
Also how about not forcing everybody to use Apple hardware to compile their apps? How about allowing xcode competititors and running on different hardware? Allowing to emulate macos/ios?
Fuck apple.
As though the EU caused Apple to switch to USB-C. This was obviously years-in-the-making. iPads already had it.
Then why did the Iphone not change after 11 years?
An entrenched ecosystem and backlash from consumers the last time they made such a change?
found the Apple fanboy
It would be foolish to think that the company that started shipping notebooks with only USB-C five years ago, and that transitioned its iPads to USB-C something like three years ago, wasn’t going to make a phone with USB-C eventually. I mean, you’d have to be disingenuous about the facts to take such a position.
It would be foolish to think that a company that goes far out of it’s way to make walled gardens would open up it’s charging port to an industry standard making it easier to use charging cables from other phones. They kept the thunderbolt as long as possible until the EU told them to quit the crap.
They kept the thunderbolt as long as possible
You don’t know what you’re talking about. It’s a Lightning port. Thunderbolt is an industry standard, developed to share a USB-C plug by Intel and Apple. Lightning was Apple tech.
