The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.

Hopefully good comes from it.

  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “We need you to stop making a good product so your customers can finally move away from it.”

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Just like how Windows Explorer was stopped because it was such a good product?

    • niucllos@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      “We need you to stop making a good product forcing your customers to only use your version so your customers can finally move away from it.” Fixed it. Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Is there an answer to that question that would make these practices reasonable? (while also being plausibly true)

              • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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                8 months ago

                Thats why I’m asking if they know why the feature was removed so I can look up the specifics.

            • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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              8 months ago

              In what way is a device you’ve purchase and paired with your phone, requesting that the phone it’s paired to make a noise; a security flaw/issue?

                • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  Are you high?

                  Tracking?

                  Explain to me how you would perform any sort of tracking via a secured communication between two devices: ‘hey phone, can you beep once’ ‘sure’ beep.

                  • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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                    8 months ago

                    Sure. An ex-boyfriend doesn’t take the breakup from his girlfriend well, and decides to locate her. He remembers his phone used to be paired with hers, and decides to use that to find her.

                    As much as you want to fight me and make fun of me for this, this is a serious concern.

            • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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              8 months ago

              Not really, pretty much every brand has had security issues and they all patch them fairly quickly

              • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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                8 months ago

                Thats not true. There are still phones out there being actively used that have been end of life for years now. There is no way to corral those insecure devices.

                • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  I’d have to review exactly how long each brand releases updates for, especially because they’ve all been one upping each other recently. However there’s nothing specific to Apple’s anticompetitive behavior that relates to how long they release updates for.

                  Ideally they’d all provide support for longer

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The quality isn’t really the issue, it’s when the company

      • prevents competing apps from being installed
      • prevents devices from other manufacturers from using your apps (or intentionally degrading services on other devices)
      • making it hard to use files/media outside the proprietary apps (ex. iTunes in the past, and maybe still now)

      This issue isn’t limited to Apple, but Apple is the well known example for locking people into an ecosystem whether they like it or not