EU Legislation Takes Away Consumer Choice and Threatens Privacy: Apple’s Mandatory Walled Garden

It’s a pity to read that you immediately start attacking the man if you don’t like an opinion, which is a shame.

But you don’t get any reasonable choices at all. My choice is being completely taken away from me. What choice do I get? Will I soon have to leave my name and address and payment details in many more places if I want to continue using something? Apps that are allowed to circumvent privacy and security rules and partly ignore OS security? I don’t want that choice at all, if I had wanted that choice I would have bought a different phone with a completely different philosophy behind it.

Now I have made the choice for a system where I cannot be forced to do things like that, if I want to make full use of my phone and continue to use all the apps that I currently use. This choice is really taken away from me by this banal EU legislation. I’m not given a choice; I lose a choice and there is a new route to force something on me.

An attack on privacy? How? You are not obliged to share your data with anyone. If you don’t want anything other than the app store and never sideload, nothing will change for you.

We now know this killer. “You have the choice to throw apps off your phone if the developer tries to force you out of the secure ecosystem.” Just a bit difficult if you need that app for whatever reason, right? That is really blackmail and a very strange argument, especially to make against people who want to use a walled garden without this threat. A choice that many people consciously make. The fact that you cannot understand that may be true and is your right to have an opinion, but it is still true that there are millions of people who choose this out of their own free will and would very much like to have retained that choice.

In addition, the overall reliability of the platform is compromised, because you can no longer have a high level of confidence in what the other party can run. Clearly not a consideration at all for you, but for me and many others it is.

And destroy the platform? I really don’t see how mandating more competition, protecting consumers, and encouraging innovation has ever broken a platform.

The consumer is no longer protected at all, but loses the very good protection that Apple offered and that you could opt for as a user, without the possibility of being blackmailed by rogue devs. No form of protection for consumers has been added.

You might have had a point if the law was fairer and more balanced. Eg: Apple may oblige to offer payment via Apple and the dev may also offer its own method. Then you would have had an additional choice as a consumer. Now you just have to pray that the developer who is considering doing their own processing implements it themselves instead of screwing the consumer.

By the way, I call Apple’s mandatory walled garden blackmail, they oblige you to conform to their standards and values. No choice. And no, not everyone is free to choose whether they go for an iOS or an Android device. Apparently some people forget that sometimes.

You actually had every choice. Nobody forces you to buy an iPhone, it is nonsense that people are forced to buy an Apple device. Unfortunately, there is now an obligation to no longer use a walled garden (without compromising on other matters).

[Reactie gewijzigd door WhatsappHack op 25 januari 2024 23:38]

2024-01-25 20:23:37
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