Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties

• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, most Apple users won’t care or even know, and will just keep using whatever is Apple gives them. I don’t see how that’s an issue.

  Meanwhile, people who are at least slightly more informed will benefit from the freedom. Things like this are needed because informed consumers too are getting shafted in about every product category. Voting with your wallet doesn’t work in a market dominated by uninformed consumers.

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  • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There are also those of us who like some Apple products but do not buy them because of the walled garden. The EU might improve choices for us too.

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  • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Voting with your wallet doesn’t work in a market dominated by uninformed consumers.

    … then maybe the people should just get more informed.

    I don’t see how we need to regulate something that doesn’t benefit anyone as everyone is uninformed anyways and probably doesn’t even care?

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    • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … then maybe the people should just get more informed.

      I hear they also made crimes illegal. Problem fucking solved.

      doesn’t benefit anyone

      But it does? Some Apple users will try something else, and even if you aren’t one of the, these practices spread. When Apple gets away with something, others will follow. Android is also getting more locked down with each major release. Maybe you use a linux phone or none at all?

      everyone is uninformed anyways and probably doesn’t even care?

      The fact that this issue is being discussed by us here and meps/commissioners/etc. at Brussels is proof that not everyone is uninformed and don’t care.

      What’s to gain by not regulating this? Do you want the world to collectively suffer from products that are artificially made worse? You can say that ignorant people deserve what they get, but do the others deserve to get dragged down to their level? Everyone should suffer because iphone users are dumb?

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      • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Do you want the world to collectively suffer from products that are artificially made worse

        I want a world in which corporations are scared to release anti-consumer products because they know it’ll tank their income.

        Android is also getting more locked down with each major release

        There’s stuff like graphene or other open source OS’s - installing graphene is literally connecting your phone to a PC and opening a website, something even a chimp can do.

        You can say that ignorant people deserve what they get, but do the others deserve to get dragged down to their level

        Nobody is affected by apple devices getting locked down except apple users, and they chose that.

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• fxdave@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh they do. They love type-c.

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