These days they would be using an esim rather than a physical sim.

We use Everything for that now

I did hit enter, but only once. Markdown needed 2 enters to not carry to the next return, at least in this app (thunder). I added a second return and it should display correctly now.

Fixed

it’s not supposed to be

That’s the issue. That might be fine for you, but for others we would like it to be. The limitation isn’t hardware, so let the users decide whether they want it to be more than a big iPhone.

And I (don’t) feel fine

Maybe a DBrand skin for Airpods?

I have this blocked with Blokada locally on my Shield and can confirm it works great. I also prefer the stock launcher just without all the ad junk.

I recently bought a TCL TV with Android TV and I was hoping this trick would work with it but it didn’t. So if anyone knows how to make the TCL Android TV launcher interface “stock” and stay that way feel free to point it out.

There is no reason why this shouldn’t be on GitHub since it’s likely just a bunch of ADB commands anyway. In the Reddit thread the author repeatedly refused to acknowledge or address the calls to make the tool open source. No thanks, seems too shady to me.

Absolutely this is wonderful news

You should probably ask this in a piracy community. I’m not sure if answering here is against the rules.

I don’t think anyone here is blaming the users, the comments are saying they shouldn’t be surprised.

Users blatantly violate TOS > company bans account > shocked Pikachu face

I agree with the above commenter that they should have expected this. I remember watching SnazzyLabs video about Beeper when it was about to come out, and the video essentially said ‘people have been doing this for awhile, I don’t think Apple will care about Beeper’ and I thought oh yes they will.

Do I think Apple is in the right here? No. Am I surprised they’re taking this action? Also no.

I have a pack of these, although perhaps not this specific brand. I swear by them. Mini and micro usb can die in a fire please.

We don’t know yet, but the rumor mill says the setting will be geo locked. So probably not.

For everyone rejoicing in this thread, there’s no way Apple will allow this outside the EU. From the article:

We also found references to a region lock in this API, which suggests that Apple could restrict it to specific countries. This wouldn’t make sense for MDM solutions, but it does make sense for enabling sideloading in particular countries only when required by authorities – such as in the European Union.

I want side loading as much as the next guy, but Apple will only do the bare minimum to appease the EU regulations. Suck for those of us outside the EU.

Why? Honest question about your perspective.

It’s the enshitification of it all. They hike prices while removing features year after year. Corporate greed is never enough.

they make money from harvesting your data then showing you ads based on that data

That’s part of it, yes. But they can also sell ad companies demographic data - males aged 25-44 clicked on this or looked at that for example.

Google probably makes more like $50 per user per year on average

I highly doubt the number is that low.

they’ve got to make money somehow

But they have been, and for years. All the years I’ve run a smartphone Google has harvested and profited from my data. From Gmail to Chrome (before I switched) to Maps, etc - they have profited from people’s data at scale. So the argument that they need to make money somehow falls flat for me.

Also, if they charged like $2 a year to block ads, plenty of people would buy it. But like most things lately, the enshitification of our user experience continues. It’s not enough for companies like Google to “make money” - it’s never enough and their greed has no boundaries.

That’s why you see people like us pushing back - enough is enough.