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Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPhone app sideloading
- blitzar 1y agoOr else what?
- westmeal 1y agoTim apple will be very upset or something
- svoit 1y agoAre you another CBB listener in the wild by chance?
- westmeal 1y agoI don't know what CBB is sorry.
- blitzar 1y agoAI says "CBB listener" likely refers to someone who listens to the audio broadcast of Celebrity Big Brother.
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- wat10000 1y agoOr else the policy will “bring increased privacy and security risks to users, opening the door for malware, fraud and scams; illicit and harmful content; and other threats.”
- AstralStorm 1y agoYeah sure, most users do not sideload. It's mostly used to add extra stores too by power users, especially on Android, rather than loading random apps.
- meepmorp 1y agoI think the word "warn" is a bit of editorializing (by the Guardian, originally). They're just making the same argument in Australia that they did before the EU.
- bamboozled 1y agoThe guardian loves hyperbole , I pay for it but they love publishing rot more often than I’d like to admit.
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- anotherhue 1y agoClearly they have never met an Australian.
- mystraline 1y agoBetter yet, repeal DMCA 1201 and ALL associated other country equivalent 'anti-circumvention' laws. AND ALSO force monopolies, like Apple, to open like the EU did.
- bitpush 1y ago> Apple warns Australia Who the heck does Apple think they are? Also, why doesnt Apple "warn" China for the well documented privacy/security implications in that country?
- wyldberry 1y agoBecause China makes their stuff and they've invested billions in skilling up Chinese labor.
- lazyeye 1y agoActually just "billions" is an understatement... https://youtu.be/NAj9zB4vaZc https://youtu.be/NAj9zB4vaZc
- wat10000 1y agoThey are “warning” in the sense of describing what they claim will be negative outcomes from this. It’s not a threat. As for China, what would they say? “Your policy of surveillance and censorship puts users’ privacy and freedom at risk”? They know, that’s the whole point.
- mmmlinux 1y agoThey could say "We're going to stop subsidizing the entire Chinese tech industry"
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- ChrisArchitect 1y agoSource: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/06/australians-may-soon-be-able-to-download-iphone-apps-from-outside-apple-app-store-under-government-proposal-ntwnfb https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/06/australia...
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- bitpush 1y agoIf you dont like government policies, you vote them out not ask a trillion dollar company with little to no oversight to come and bulldoze them.
- pjmlp 1y agoCompany CEOs have to learn that companies obey the laws of the countries they operate on, not the other way around.
- ksec 1y agoThere was roughly 10 years of Apple thinking they are the law. Very unfortunate Apple didn't learn from its mistakes.
- out_of_protocol 1y agoIt also doesn't help that Apple has more free money than great many of the world countries
- pjmlp 1y agoAnd as many know, in theory all companies have core values trainings, in practice corruption never goes away. Still, countries have the last word in what happens inside their borders, and when things don't work as they should, someone is getting wealthier. However companies should not misunderstand such short term wins, with having a say on the country's ruling.
- out_of_protocol 1y agoEver heard of the term "Banana republic" ? That's what happens than company have a lot more money than a country. Overthrowing governments, coups, astronomical bribes - anything goes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
- Pesthuf 1y agoThe entire EU is in flames ever since they allowed "sideloading". Every device is compromised, people are eating their children to survive. This is what Apple and macrumors users actually believe.
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- lazyeye 1y agoApple would prefer that users are limited to only their scams.
- solarkraft 1y agoI’m concerned because I was close to suggesting that anything Apple is against must be good. But I like their stance on privacy. Them going so hard on making a point about being anti-consumer may harm future privacy efforts.
- rcarmo 1y agoUntil I can run the code I wrote onto the hardware I bought without restrictions or timeouts, it’s not sideloading. _That_ is what regulators should have forced Apple to do.