iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones

23 August 2024
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Only EU? Does Apple include the UK in this deal? Lots of us would like to know!

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    • Anonymous
    • raQ
    • 26 Aug 2024

    Carol-, 24 Aug 2024Yet again, talking not to shut up. The only one here that&#... moreSaying Apple isn't competitive and then saying the government has to force them to be like their competitors is completely hilarious and deranged.

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      • Anonymous
      • Fv1
      • 26 Aug 2024

      Truther, 24 Aug 2024You probably confuse liberty and democracy with anarchy. In... more"This applys to everything and not only to people, but also to bussinesses, when some, like apple, go astray somebody needs to put them down so for them to sotop bothering others."

      Literally dictator levels of authoritarianism here.

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        • Anonymous
        • vak
        • 26 Aug 2024

        iPhone with google messages interesting

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          • GIO
          • txG
          • 25 Aug 2024

          Boggy, 25 Aug 2024Now please do the same thing on Android manufacturers too. ... morethey wouldn't give a sh!t because you all still buy it eventought you HATE its bloatware

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            • Boggy
            • snc
            • 25 Aug 2024

            Now please do the same thing on Android manufacturers too. The amount of bloatware on Samsung and Xiaomi/Redmi/Poco phones is maybe 2-3 times bigger than any iPhone bloatware. Which by the way, many iPhone apps could have been uninstalled even before this new law. Majority of Samsung bloatware could not been uninstalled, only disabled. And for many apps, not even disabled.
            Is the biggest reason for me why I don't buy Samsung phones anymore. I like One Ui the best, but I dislike their bloatware (biggest from any Android manufacturer) and doubled apps.

            And that's the problem with Android phones (except maybe Pixels). One company does the software and another company does the hardware. But the company who does the hardware wants their software in there too, alongside Google's (because why not, is our hardware).

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              • nqK
              • 25 Aug 2024

              spspspspsp, 24 Aug 2024All this focus on Apple. How about Samsung and other Androi... moreThe same law that is being applied to Apple here, applies to Samsung and all other Android OEMs.

              They're just starting with Apple because they're richer and the ones with the more locked down software where there's really no viable workaround.

              On Android you can at least disable the apps and sideload ones you like. Neither can be done on iOS (without something more complex like jailbreaking).

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                • Doug
                • dM0
                • 25 Aug 2024

                The beginning of the fall, Androidfying Iphones. I feel its not a good move for Apple, but Im not sure if it were imposed by EU law. Could somebody confirm it?

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                  • Anonym
                  • Lcd
                  • 25 Aug 2024

                  Carol-, 24 Aug 2024Yet again, talking not to shut up. The only one here that&#... moreThe CEO of Telegram just got arrested in France. The charges are simple: he is the CEO of Telegram. "Totally not authoritarian at all! /s"

                    Anonym, 24 Aug 2024The "oh so many things" slipped into Chat Control... moreYet again, talking not to shut up. The only one here that's uncompetitive is apple. EU is doing a very fine job tearing down it's walls, 🎉

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                      • cyber
                      • S2D
                      • 24 Aug 2024

                      we want to be able to install android😎🍏🍏🍏

                        All this focus on Apple. How about Samsung and other Android makers who install lots of apps some of which cannot be uninstalled. All devices should be free to be used in whatever way the owner chooses and this should also include the ability of all Android devices to have the boot loader unlocked.

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                          • Lcd
                          • 24 Aug 2024

                          outandabout, 23 Aug 2024How is EU authoritarian? In what regards?The "oh so many things" slipped into Chat Control (CSEM scanner proposal), tariffs with the sole purpose of protecting uncompetitive EU companies (even if against international trade), and the many mandates to "steer society in the right way" pretty much defines them as ANYTHING BUT libertarian -- in fact, some of them already show authoritarian traits.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • tDI
                            • 24 Aug 2024

                            i wish that eu would force android phone maker to allow it's user to unlock their bootloader 100% offline.

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                              • skK
                              • 24 Aug 2024

                              Lister, 23 Aug 2024EU is flexing its muscles now that it has forced Apple to c... moreYou confuse Bullying to Applying the law, they are actually doing a fine job tearing down the walls of apple. They should actually accelerate the proccess.

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                                • Carol
                                • skK
                                • 24 Aug 2024

                                Anonymous, 23 Aug 2024Haha yes I agree and at same time you use their software an... moreEU means European Union, where does a Union have high wages? You talk all over the place about things that you do not understand.

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                                  • Truther
                                  • skK
                                  • 24 Aug 2024

                                  Anonymous, 23 Aug 2024The EU is not libertarian at all, they are authoritarian, l... moreYou probably confuse liberty and democracy with anarchy. In every great democracy you are free untill you bother the one near you. That's your freedoms invisible line that is not to be crossed. This applys to everything and not only to people, but also to bussinesses, when some, like apple, go astray somebody needs to put them down so for them to sotop bothering others.

                                    Heis, 23 Aug 2024I can only disable chrome and youtube but not uninstall it,... moreNgl it's close enough. Only difference is it's still technically there but only a few mb in size. Just install whatever else you wanna use and you're good.

                                      Anonymous, 23 Aug 2024The EU is not libertarian at all, they are authoritarian, l... moreI bet you see Viktor Orban as liberal with your warped mind

                                        Apple learning the hard way, you hear! Tim Cook open up the apple ecosystem, it doesn't need to be glassed off from people and other apps

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