purpmint008

Do you know about what Victoria Nuland (leaked intercepted tapes), Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsay Graham, Hunter Biden, CIA John Brennan, etc. did in Ukraine?

Do you know that Zelenskyy had a sub-28% approval rating from his own population because he threatened to acquire nuclear weapons, threatened to join NATO, join the EU (comes with military connections also, BTW), take back Crimea and the entirety of the Donbas, etc.? His population mostly wanted Austria-style neutrality but he was being strung along by the US because we wanted to turn it into a battering ram against Russia.

Wireguard is the only service that I bother to expose.

It's stealth and has mitigations for DOS attacks.

> Apple themselves are not a vector in my privacy threat model

Mostly the same here.

But, when their ad-targeting goes fully online?

When they hand over your data due to a lawsuit you didn't expect?

Apple sells you privacy from everyone but Apple.

When are they going to allow us to opt out of the baseline telemetry that we cannot opt out of as per their EULAs?

When are they going to make their own ad targeting network opt-in instead of opt-out?

When are they going to give us the option of full E2EE for our iCloud data?

How about the Apple Music store being embedded into the default Music App? Blatantly anti-competitive against Spotify.

How about the Apple Music store being embedded into the default Music App? Blatantly anti-competitive against Spotify.

Sure. But, let's also stop feeding the Apple App Store beast. 15-30% cut for little-to-no value added. Complete monopolization. Can't side-load apps without paying an yearly-fee.

Bundling of iMessage and SMS = reduction in competition by integration.

> "behave anticompetitively"

What is Apple doing when it bundles iMessage and SMS together? Deception and anti-competitive behavior, that's what!

This is true. Apple Maps has improved significantly. I still wouldn't trust it like I trust Google Maps though.

Apple has the majority of profits in the smartphone industry in the US, and even globally. To me, that warrants a major anti-trust investigation into: the App Store and pre-included apps like iMessage being fused into the SMS system on their devices! Bring them down to size.

I am well-aware of these.

The issue is the joint-packaging.

If we went hard on Microsoft for packaging IE and WMP into Windows, we should go equally ballistic about iMessage and SMS being fused in together. They should be broken up.

Keep downvoting me, fanboys! Long live the resistance!

Apple is the biggest monopoly in the US right now. Hands down.

They get to get away with everything!

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. all get hammered on the daily in the US and in the EU. But, Apple is a golden child that can do no wrong.

Do you people not realize that they've created a peer-pressure device in the form of the iPhone by packaging SMS and iMessage into 1 app called "Messages"?

How is that even legal?!

The app should be broke up into 2.

You should be given options on what messaging app you want to install.

Their practices are anti-competitive.

15-30% cut via the App Store for Apple?! Is this a joke?!

I just use Chrome's "Create Shortcut" feature to make my web-apps instead of downloading a bloated Electron app for the same thing.