> Compared to politics in general, this is a very niche topic.
Most of what government do is reasonably niche. Like, this obviously gets a lot of attention on HN, but it's only a very small part of the stuff that the EC does.
There have been very significant changes to legislation, which forced Apple to change their practices. This isn't an issue where one company over reached and was forced to change their behavior. This is a long running process by the EU.
>Most of what government do is reasonably niche. Like, this obviously gets a lot of attention on HN, but it's only a very small part of the stuff that the EC does.
From a purely selfish and practical view, that goes against my ideology, it’s already difficult enough to keep my elderly relatives keeping their iPhone free of scam apps. Opening it up will make it even worse.
One thing I have been considering for my immediate family, and possibly my parents, is setting up a small MDM. This seems more in line with allowing power users to do powerful things while keeping the less savy users from totally blowing up their devices with malware. I've never run an MDM though, only on the receiving end for work devices, so I'm not too sure about the complexity involved.
If you live in the EU, reach out to your representative(s) and share your perspective. I don't agree with that some group should suffer because another gets value from a locked down device, but I still believe your voice should be properly heard.
I don’t think it’s quite there yet, but the iOS Assistive Access mode is a step in the right direction. Eventually phones will have to have an “old people” mode, right? I especially worry how my grandparents will comply with 2FA requirements, passkeys, etc.
There could still be a technical solution whereby ios is made open in general, but has a hardware-dependent flag that locks it down. And then we can see who prefers to buy these locked devices.
It is very interesting how hard the EU is pushing on these very small issues. Compared to politics in general, this is a very niche topic.
In general I think the EU has quite mixed results. Some things they absolutely did get right, but others were complete failures.
> It is very interesting how hard the EU is pushing on these very small issues.
... I mean, it's essentially antitrust. The US is also doing this to some extent (for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_(2024) ).
> Compared to politics in general, this is a very niche topic.
Most of what government do is reasonably niche. Like, this obviously gets a lot of attention on HN, but it's only a very small part of the stuff that the EC does.
>I mean, it's essentially antitrust.
There have been very significant changes to legislation, which forced Apple to change their practices. This isn't an issue where one company over reached and was forced to change their behavior. This is a long running process by the EU.
>Most of what government do is reasonably niche. Like, this obviously gets a lot of attention on HN, but it's only a very small part of the stuff that the EC does.
How nice it would be to just be able to transfer god damn files between an iPhone and any other OS like every other sane device.
The same can be said for modern android…
From a purely selfish and practical view, that goes against my ideology, it’s already difficult enough to keep my elderly relatives keeping their iPhone free of scam apps. Opening it up will make it even worse.
One thing I have been considering for my immediate family, and possibly my parents, is setting up a small MDM. This seems more in line with allowing power users to do powerful things while keeping the less savy users from totally blowing up their devices with malware. I've never run an MDM though, only on the receiving end for work devices, so I'm not too sure about the complexity involved.
If you live in the EU, reach out to your representative(s) and share your perspective. I don't agree with that some group should suffer because another gets value from a locked down device, but I still believe your voice should be properly heard.
I don’t think it’s quite there yet, but the iOS Assistive Access mode is a step in the right direction. Eventually phones will have to have an “old people” mode, right? I especially worry how my grandparents will comply with 2FA requirements, passkeys, etc.
There could still be a technical solution whereby ios is made open in general, but has a hardware-dependent flag that locks it down. And then we can see who prefers to buy these locked devices.