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>when have you last used it to order groceries or new furniture? Apple would love to get a cut of those purchases, by the way. You can, though. There's no part

>when have you last used it to order groceries or new furniture? Apple would love to get a cut of those purchases, by the way. You can, though. There's no particularly convenient way to do most of those things, but that's largely because of manufacturer limitations. Nothing stopping you from using the browser on your Switch to go do instacart.com, tho. >Starting by dealing with the devices that have the highest impact on the largest number of people Why would this need to be addressed so singularly? Is that how the EU approaches most problems? It seems pretty sensible that they'd just regulate computing devices to allow for this sort of thing and then be able to pretty easily bring into compliance any who don't. Isn't that more or less what they did with the GDPR? It seems like regulating this would be even easier as non-compliance would be entirely visible to the consumer.

andersa 3y ago
> Why would this need to be addressed so singularly? I don't know, I didn't write the law. They must have thought this is the better approach to start with. Perhaps they consider fighting one gigacorp at a time to be easier. After all, Apple has been left to grow unchecked until became larger than many countries. Sure wish the US would just handle Apple the same way China has handled Alibaba growing too large. One can dream, right? For context, they basically just said "you had your fun, it's over" and forcibly split the company in many smaller ones under new leadership.
extraduder_ire 3y ago
> Nothing stopping you from using the browser on your Switch to go do instacart.com, tho. You can't just open up a browser on the switch (or a ps5 for that matter). You have to use a workaround to access the browser that's only intended for viewing help/regulatory pages and interacting with wifi captive-portals. I guess they're really mad about the browser exploits that hit them in previous gens. (although, doesn't matter if you still have any browser access) It's on about the same level as escaping the UI on a touchscreen kiosk to access the web.
- EtienneK 3y ago
  I only have an Xbox and I can tell you it's super easy. Just open "Edge".
  - extraduder_ire 3y ago
    I know (glad microsoft did this from late 360 onwards) I should have mentioned it in my comment.

andersa 3y ago

> Why would this need to be addressed so singularly? I don't know, I didn't write the law. They must have thought this is the better approach to start with. Perhaps they consider fighting one gigacorp at a time to be easier. After all, Apple has been left to grow unchecked until became larger than many countries. Sure wish the US would just handle Apple the same way China has handled Alibaba growing too large. One can dream, right? For context, they basically just said "you had your fun, it's over" and forcibly split the company in many smaller ones under new leadership.

extraduder_ire 3y ago

> Nothing stopping you from using the browser on your Switch to go do instacart.com, tho. You can't just open up a browser on the switch (or a ps5 for that matter). You have to use a workaround to access the browser that's only intended for viewing help/regulatory pages and interacting with wifi captive-portals. I guess they're really mad about the browser exploits that hit them in previous gens. (although, doesn't matter if you still have any browser access) It's on about the same level as escaping the UI on a touchscreen kiosk to access the web.

EtienneK 3y ago
I only have an Xbox and I can tell you it's super easy. Just open "Edge".
- extraduder_ire 3y ago
  I know (glad microsoft did this from late 360 onwards) I should have mentioned it in my comment.