The fact apple has the option to accept or deny a third party store means they get to decide what third party stores are allowed on their device. The spirit of the law that the EU punished them for would say that apple should not have any say in what the users install on their devices, similar to how Aptoide, f-droid, and other third party app stores exist on android without requiring Google’s approval. Apple is just doing all they can to comply to the smallest legal degree they can to make as much money as possible from the waiting period between EU wristslaps.

The fact apple gets to decide which app stores are allowed and which aren’t kind of defeats the point of this decentralisation attempt

You’re being slowly boiled alive, frog friend

They do make it very hard to speak about anything else

That’s 90% of a year’s revenue they could be missing out if they fixed it now, yeah

Don’t see why that’d be the case, they might focus on it being a lighter model or something that also happens to have lower specs

I’d argue you can go much cheaper. Also their real competitor in terms of standalone hmds is Meta, not beyond. Beyond is a niche pc only product, not a standalone experience with social potential.

Quest 3 adoption is super high compared to where quest 1 or 2 were at years ago, the apple vision pro wasn’t meant to create mass adoption anyway, not at that price point.

Well the good thing about their licensing is that you can buy a version and stick with it in spite of whatever the parent company does, and you’re not banned from using older versions like with Adobe’s T&Cs

Also if the ads were actually curated and we didn’t have crypto scams running amok

Read the article

But I don’t think companies are transparent enough with how they use things and usually ask for very broad licensing and usage rights for what you upload. Sure us tech literate people should and usually are scrutinizing that stuff, but what about the family aunt who just wants to share photos of their nephew with their close ones? On Facebook for example it even tells you you are only sharing posts with “Friends” or “Everyone” (or custom I guess) which might make those people think “oh just my friends see this, not the platform that I’m using”

Idk this kind of feels like victim blaming. Why should you expect your photos to be used in a way that is so devoid of the original purpose you shared them for? It’s like telling people to not go out of the house with money on them, you don’t expect to be robbed, so why should you have your entire way of living affected by it instead of punishing robbers when that does happen, or in this case companies that abuse good will.