Apple never hid the fact that their apps work better on their devices. They have access to APIs that third parties do not have.

I don’t think it’s a bad thing necessarily.

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intrasight an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I do think it's a bad thing and I believe the EU regulators agree.

There are whole classes of applications that are not possible unless low level device data is exposed via APIs.

And since Apple doesn't provide the apps, the apps won't exist until Apple creates them.

	▲	whatever1 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe some sort of 1 year lead time would be a reasonable trade off ? Like let Apple first do the move, flesh out the issues and overall viability and then require them to open the api ?

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dewey an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What makes it a "bad thing" if competitors have equal access? May the best implementation win.

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Danox 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

Maybe build your own operating system? But we are very lucky there are two other superior choices out there, and they have even bigger market-share, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

I keep hearing from people that they’re awesome to use so why do people care about the smallest system available worldwide? Why does anyone care what Apple does or anyone else if they decide to make their own operating system?

	▲	dewey 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Can you share some of these Microsoft Windows and Linux phones that also run the popular apps that you often need to take part in daily life?

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Nevermark an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As has been evident in many spheres of human activity recently, being brazen about conflicts of interest, is often used as a PR shield for those conflicts.

Sometimes transparency and honesty get weaponized. Especially by actors with centralized power.

(Not arguing against transparency, but against misinterpreting it as always being used in good faith.)

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user43928 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think it's bad.

You want to handle device rotation smoothly in your in-app browser?

Tough luck, WebKit's _beginAnimatedResizeWithUpdates is private, and only Apple gets to use it in Safari.

Good luck with the animation and scroll position handling. You better hope WkWebView's default behavior works for you, because you don't get to customize it and fix edge cases or the tab previews, like Apple did for their browser.

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groundzeros2015 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn’t the EU regulation specifically about this?