Apple will finally allow for sideloading apps in iOS 17 to comply with EU regulations
— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) April 18, 2023
This would allow users to download apps outside of the App Store and allow developers to avoid the 15% to 30% fees
Source: @markgurman pic.twitter.com/VAjEDeXcLb
Apple BUCK BROKEN by EU once again. Applecels and Amerikkkans cope all over the thread
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Burgermutts cucked as always
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Land of the free.
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Yeah cucked from Chinese spyware, scams and literal nonfunctioning garbsge like 90% of the obamaphone “store”
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But also restricting installation to their app saves them from blowing tons of resources on fighting malware and exploits. Would be pretty funny if Apple ignored all those issues and let the Euros fend for themselves.
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Yes, it's called "treating your customers like they know how to use a computer instead of like children"
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Microsoft went that way and later realized they'd have to drop tons of resources on fighting malware. There are benefits to having a walled gardenlike Apple's. This also partly why Microsoft has been nudging users into using only their equivalent of a Microsoft 'store' for installing apps. Only took them 15 or so years of learning the hard way.
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Maxis unintentionally wrote RAM leak into the original SimCity, and Microsoft ended up adding code to Windows to compensate for it instead of making Maxis be better.
The result is you could play SimCity on Windows and not Apple.
I've been sideloading emulators onto my android devices since the Motorola Droid X. In fact I think Android took a step backwards at v4.4 when they stopped letting you Bluetooth sync any device you wanted, specifically Wii nunchuks. I used to hook up my Samsung phone running Google OS emulating Nintendo software via HDMI to my TV.
Motorola used to have micro-HDMI outputs on their phones man.
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Have s*x linuxcel
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they literally already have tiktok on there tho
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What events happen in someone's life to get them to this point
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Wanting something that works and not caring about gay Linux crap
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If you want something that works why are you buying Apple
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Because it works
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entire world: uses american devices to post on american websites about american media
you: LOL BURGERMUTTS CUCKED
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Our government is so fricking worthless. They could force Apple to do the right thing but NO, of course not
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Why do you love Chinese scammers so much
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I like YouTube Vanced because I'm not an absolute cuck. How about you?
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I pay for YouTube premium bc I’m not broke, it works on everything I’m logged into and don’t want chinamen mining xrp on my devices
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Only poors can’t see the value in paying for convenience instead of installing a bunch of Linux nerd crap on literally everything. Try explaining to your kids who want to watch Bluey clips in the car or at mémère and pépère’s house how to install special web browsers or Adblock’s in routers
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Here's the thing. You said installing a bunch of Linux nerd crap. We are talking about YouTube. As someone who uses Brave who has used adblock there is no reason to buy YouTube Premium. It's not the same as say a Netflix subscription so if you wanted to be specific then you shouldn't either.
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Are you using brave on a tv lol
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This. Especially for YouTube, the largest repository of music and podcasts on earth
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Every ad discourages me from wasting more time on the YouTube app, which is a good thing
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Welfare leaches begone
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Leeching off welfare is economically wiser than paying for YouTube
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b-word do you have sponsor block on your premium?
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No what is that? Does that block the ((sneaky)) ((sponsor)) ads?
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yes. plus the like/subscribe bs
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Is this something you can run on a router or nas or whatever to have it work network wide
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lol
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Common zogbot L
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Triggered much?????
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Why'd u buy an iphone then?
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Becuase I was SUPPOSED to be able to sideload apps in a year
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lol that's on you
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Unfathomably basiert.
Breaking the apple buck for normal people while still keeping burgers cucked to their big tech overlords (and they will like it)
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New scalpchad opportunity for eurochads
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itoddlers deserve to be ripped off
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zoz
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I block all greentexting obamaphone poors
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Been said since 2011. Any day now!
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Borpa
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The desire iToddlers have to be cucked by iDaddy is amazing. Also LOL Americucks wont have this apparently . Keep paying that 30% to iDaddy
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You know, I did a survey of my friend group the other day. Not a single one has purchased anything on the app store or itunes in probably a decade (or android equivalent). Who the frick is paying for apps that they care about this anyways?
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G*mers
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Sort of a tangent but I really can't understand how good full fledged mobile games just still don't exist. Like did chinese gachas really screw it up that bad?
There was a period in the ipod touch days where there were a decent amount of decent shooters and racing and rhythm games that you could pass the time with for like $2 (also I remember infinity blade being a "flagship" on the first iphones and ipad). But like nowadays, I think 20 year old GBA games are probably preferable to pretty much anything.
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The unit economics are just bad and the platform isn’t appealing.
Nobody pays real money for iOS games so your only option is freemium, but your usual whales would rather play Destiny or League, so you’re left with the 2D waifu gacha game freaks. The controls are abysmal and the battery life isn’t good enough to run a game anyway
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This is a chicken and egg problem. People definitely used to be willing to with things like infinity blade, The FFI-V ports sold really well. Stardew valley sold a million copies on android alone. But nothing recently native to mobile, it's all ports
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Infinity Blade was like $5. Games are retailing $70 now and even that’s too low to recuperate dev costs. Ports can sometimes succeed because they’re not as costly and the existing consumer base on PC/consoles has been exhausted anyway
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I'm not saying to make $70 full fledged mobile games, that's why I gave the example of even GBA games generally being more satisfying. Those were like 30$ with devs having to code directly on low level hardware and things of similar quality could be banged out much cheaper and faster now. I'm thinking some decent scale in the $20 price point would be doable in an ideal world.
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GBA games sold for $30-$45 in the 90s, which would make them around $60-$75 dollars today. Yes, scale and digital publishing help, but people hardly pay $5 for mobile games much less the $20-$50 you’d need.
GBA games were also cheaper because expectations and limits were lower. You can’t really have 1-5 man teams anymore. Indie ports are your best bet for mobile. Supergiant (of Bastion fame) has a few
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My (possibly severely) neurodivergent brother likes to play those incremental games on his phone. Like cookie clicker or paperclips but much more complex and time consuming. There seem to be millions of them, he used to literally just spend the whole day flicking from one to the next, and by the time he's gone to the last enough idle time had passed on the first to go back to it.
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Try Mindustry
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Kingdom Rush series is peak tower defense
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I just want the old ipod touch days back, where you could buy a nice simple puzzle game like cut the rope for a few bucks
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Yeah all the mobile games I play are ancient. Pocket Tanks, Pocket God, Mage Gauntlet, are all well over a decade old.
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Same, I bought two apps in my lifetime on android, nova launcher and poweramp. I guess its all the Candycrushcels and iG*mers who spend most on iphones.
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I bought GMMP like a decade ago and it's still updated and works well.
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Based cant wait to finally have youtube with ad and sponsorblock on my gaiphone
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Eurochads only Muttboi.
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I’m a eurochad how do you not know this basic lore 🙄🙄🙄
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Sideloaded code is still sandboxed. Just don't grant every piece of code access to your contact list and GPS, it's not that hard.
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who gives a shit if contact lists are leaked. they are already out
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Applecells seeth at EUtards forcing their master to loosen their leash, how tragic... Can't relate.
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Europoors are always swooning about how technically "advanced" the US is, then I always have to reiterate to them that while the US invents, the EU has to (almost always) regulate the hot mess that comes out of it since Burgers can't think two feet ahead.
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You don't need to regulate Apple. Appletards can inflict Apple on themselves while everyone else can use the perfectly functional Android ecosystem.
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Burger alert
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I wish.
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There's literally nothing worse than a Eurocuck who wishes to be a Burger.
Another reason I can't stand Berlin. It's full of them.
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Aren’t you a burger who wished to be a eurocel
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Rich people can be anything they want sweaty.
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Burgers who deny their stomach its purpose are the lowest form of human
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*Leaf
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At least they rake themselves.
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Oh no I have to own two whole cables to charge all of my devices instead of one and my fortnite bucks are more expensive help help I'm being oppressed
I would never own an apple device but you're being foid levels of melodramatic
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Have fun getting ripped off for simply buying a new phone. 1500 Dollars for the new Iphone plus charger tip or you can't use your new device. Now sit back and let us install our "updates" that make your CPU explode by the time we have a new device on the market
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planned obsolescence is bullshit though you're right, 50% of the blame on ios version locking and 50% of the blame on up-their-own-butt silicon valley software developers bloating up their alarm clock app with a thousand libraries. Genocide them both
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Im not an r-slur I dont use IPhone cause I want to. I use it cause every company ive worked at gave me one as a work phone. My actual phone is practically always a Samsung 5 series. Everything you need in a phone while not being plastic garbage for less than 300 bucks if you know where and when to purchase one.
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Yeah I usually use a few generation old sony. They've served me well for like 8 years and I just get them on ebay and don't ever have any issues. Makes me sad that they're all expensive "premium" phones now
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It seems melodramatic because we're discussing all issues that the EU has to regulate while you incorrectly assume there's just this single instance.
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Why regulate it? Only r-slurs buy Apple products. So frick em.
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Amerisharts will argue this is a le bad thing. Can we sue these BIPOCs into giving us back a headphone-jack next?
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I HATE TIM APPLE
I got a iphone X for free and I've been using it as my phone for a bit. I use office lens on the iphone to take some scans of documents (couldn't get to an actual scanner). Now I want to send them to my computer across a cable (the VLC wifi glowies aren't seeing THESE pictures!) The computer is running ubuntu 20.04, specifically for a version of ROS.
This task ends up taking about 2 hours, including building about 7 different tools from scratch because they are shitty open source projects and the official repos are bug ridden, and in the end about four different commands to mount the specific apps documents on the computer. Any other phone I've had I can just plug a cable in and it works. I expect if I bought a apple computer it would be like that.
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Holy shit, just rope at this point.
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Weird butt combo because one gives you total control over your device while the other gives you next to none
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it was free as in free beer or something
EDIT: You also forgot I used a microsoft project. I'm a real
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Im good with my android and all my pirated material on it.
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France is threatening an $80B fine for noncompliance, the entire European market is only worth $40B ($95B gross revenue). This is why there is no innovation in Europe.
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It did under Jobs
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What is the actual legal reason for this
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Big if true
@KongDong_of_Uganda say this as a feminist ally
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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This is EU if someone forgot how it looks:
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Snapshots:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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what an r-slur https://twitter.com/LordPagliarello/status/1648223068039401473#m
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