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by rekoil 3y ago
Mate, it's one popup shown one time , to inform those not as technically competent as you and I that they can in fact use another browser if they want to...
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by rekoil 3y ago
So shift + F10 and OOBE\BYPASSNRO no longer works to skip network setup (and therefore be unable to use a Microsoft account, forcing it to allow a local account)? What about computers with no network connection available until you install a
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by rekoil 3y ago
You could conceivably do unlocking and turning it on by simply having the Hertz app installed on a smartphone that's new enough (last 10 years should be enough to ensure it has all the features necessary). The app would also always kno
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by rekoil 3y ago
Yeah, what they needed was for there to be enough chargers at every conceivable location their customers might stay the night at, otherwise it's just a nuisance to the customer. If all hotels had as many charging spots as they did hote
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by rekoil 3y ago
The difference is who the stakeholders are. If the stakeholder has lawyers then it's prison sentences, if the stakeholder is millions of randos then it's all cool.
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by rekoil 3y ago
At some point the ability to trigger these prompts (or ones like them, like the Bluetooth-based setup new device prompts that were in the news last year) on Apple devices is itself the problem right? Obviously it must be possible to reset o
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by rekoil 3y ago
Did the math, 24.5% of their global 2023 revenue.
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by rekoil 3y ago
When all they need to do for compliance is to enable EU users to install apps without Apple as a middle-man then not much in the way of "personell/talents/headcount to handle all that crap" is actually necessary. What&#x
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by rekoil 3y ago
You also have to consider how much it costs to actually comply. The board would probably much rather Apple comply and keeps selling iPhones and services in the EU vs not getting ANY profits at all from their currently second largest region
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by rekoil 3y ago
I would argue that this is much less of an issue, especially given there's like 4 things max you wanna plug in anyway, power button, power LED, maybe activity LED, and speaker ...maybe, and you only do this once per PC, and if you fuck
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by rekoil 3y ago
Obviously I agree with your sentiment that this was a foolish and in the end a not-actually-cheaper solution, just saying that I think that was the argument used by the people responsible for the change. It's insane that PSU manufactur
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by rekoil 3y ago
Which is actually insane.
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by rekoil 3y ago
> why is the connector not keyed for the pinout it's supposed to use Because it's cheaper to reuse the connectors they already have rather than to make a new one. /s EDIT: Added a /s just to be on the safe side.
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by rekoil 3y ago
It's a significant R&D investment for sure, but it basically boils down to building a modern interface to talk to CAN-bus driven hardware from high-level software, and providing that data, along with audio/video output and use
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by rekoil 3y ago
No, Apple doesn't charge for the existence of CarPlay in a particular car. The manufacturers used to for a while, probably to reclaim their perceived implementation costs and because the industry has worked that way for a long time, bu
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by rekoil 3y ago
At the same time the Polestar 2 is an example of a modern EV built using a legacy mindset, and it is great and spends way less time at the mechanic than my colleagues Model 3.
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by rekoil 3y ago
I would wager that there were more cars with CarPlay and/or Android Auto sold in 2023 than Models Y, or any Tesla for that matter.
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by rekoil 3y ago
Staunch European Apple user here, if they actually left I'd take it to mean they aren't the company I thought they were. I'd switch to Android, it'd suck initially but I'd survive.
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by rekoil 3y ago
But that's the thing, when your law is legally binding in 24 different languages it's really impractical if not entirely impossible to have a system based on letter-of-the-law interpretations...
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by rekoil 3y ago
They would make money hand-over-fist if they did all of that.
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by rekoil 3y ago
Not exactly, looks like there's no requirement to have €1,000,000 in your bank account like you need for alternative app marketplaces.
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by rekoil 3y ago
It is indeed. Can't have this being used by those who might not net Apple any money, they're locked out obviously. Fair and reasonable. /s
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by rekoil 3y ago
Or the "Core Technology Fee".
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by rekoil 3y ago
Exactly, do that and they're then free to set whatever rules they want on their App Store.
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by rekoil 3y ago
I agree, but it is Apple's perogative if they want to go that way, that's an alternative to DMA compliance.
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by rekoil 3y ago
And there's Consent-o-Matic for the rest.
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by rekoil 3y ago
Yeah it would have happened regardless. US Americans think it wouldn't because they think politics necessates lobbyism and expect that if a European company were in a similar position to Apple then obviously the EU would be lobbied by
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by rekoil 3y ago
Nokia - Finnish Ericsson - Swedish They are no longer relevant I guess, but modern smartphones build on their original success, especially Ericssons infrastructure dominance. None of Apples Apple Silicon products would exist without Netherl
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by rekoil 3y ago
None of the things you mention is the responsibility of Apple to decide. They are all choices I get to make as the device owner. Apple can decide what ships on the device, and what is for sale in their very reputable store, but not outside
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by rekoil 3y ago
You don't, it's up to the device owner.

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