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You can see the headlines though “Apple skirts interoperability law by deprecating API after only one year”. Maintaining a public API is a cost usually only ta
by hellisothers 1y ago
You can see the headlines though “Apple skirts interoperability law by deprecating API after only one year”. Maintaining a public API is a cost usually only taken in because it has a benefit to the company.
- rickdeckard 1y agoThey are free to do that but they need to deprecate the feature for their own devices as well. Apple is not required to develop or maintain any feature against their will. The DMA is not written like that, it is much more objective and industry-agnostic. The EU demands that features implemented in the OS to be used by Apple accessories must be made equally available to competing accessory vendors.
- taneq 1y agoIf it’s deprecated then it’s still there, it might just go away someday. Releasing an API and then deprecating it immediately seems sneaky.
- ksec 1y agoDoes DMA allows Apple to do certification? Like Certifies devices for Apple Translation compatible ? Or is that straightly forbidden?
- TheDong 1y agoI think it will depend on if it seems like it's anti-competitive gatekeeping or has a legitimate use. The DMA specifically prohibits measure that are meant to gatekeep, but iirc it has allowances for things that have real technical justification. Certifying devices to make sure they're safe for users, like "this cable is certified as compatible, it won't set your iphone on fire", seems fine. Requiring your app to be "certified by apple to sell ebooks", and then only granting that certificate to Apple Books, not the Kindle app, that seems anti-competitive.
- mig1 1y agocorrect. An example of this is building a WhatsApp client, you need certification from Meta and that seems to legitimate.
- sroussey 1y agoThen why not deprecate the API every month? Also do a firmware update every month across their ecosystem.
- Gud 1y agoWhy? Because Apple is in the money making business and no one will buy a device where their (expensive) accessories cease working randomly. Especially when the user finds out the reason.
- DiabloD3 1y agoBut you just described the existing Apple ecosystem!
- pbhjpbhj 1y agoOr, just not block access.
- intrasight 1y agoA public proprietary API. If the industry wants better open standards, they the participants should develop those standards and build devices that implement those standards. What Apple does outside of such standards is nobody else's business - as long as they correctly implement and support the industry standards.