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12 votes
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Google loses €2.4bn EU antitrust case for favouring its own shopping service
33 votes -
Apple loses EU court battle over €13bn tax bill in Ireland
40 votes -
Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13 billion tax bill
16 votes -
Norway wants to ban unhealthy food ads that target teens – doesn't go as far as the UK's rule but pushes far beyond other European countries' efforts
10 votes -
Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. The Hungarian Presidency will collect “guidance for further work”. Take action to stop chat control now!
11 votes -
Challenge or opportunity? EU-China economic cooperation and the Belt and Road initiative.
4 votes -
EU ChatControl is back on the agenda
10 votes -
Over the last ten years Finland reduced road deaths by a sizable 29% – the average decline in the European Union was 16%
18 votes -
Sweden to kill 20% of its brown bears in annual hunt – conservationists say number of hunting licences granted is too high and condemn it as ‘pure trophy hunting’
15 votes -
Sustainability of FOSS: The Next Generation Internet ecosystem
14 votes -
Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk [as it was not approved by the European Commission]
11 votes -
Sweden has cut 80% of its net emissions since 1990 – while growing its economy twofold. How have they done it?
31 votes -
Sideloading with iOS 17.4: any use cases?
It’s been a few weeks now since the release of iOS 17.4, which […] provides new options for app marketplaces, web browsers and payments for residents of the European Union. […] Now, don’t get me...
It’s been a few weeks now since the release of iOS 17.4, which
[…] provides new options for app marketplaces, web browsers and payments for residents of the European Union. […]
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer in the underlying regulation to it, and have been ever since the possibility of this becoming a reality was in the Brussels air. But so far, I haven’t really been able to come up with a truly practical use case.
Furthermore, I haven’t seen any marketing for an Epic Store, Meta Store, or similar “app marketplaces”, but this may be attributed to the still rather… wobbly legal situation surrounding, notably, still having to direct payments to Apple while not using their store for app distribution. I don’t think there has been any follow-up from Apple (or the EU) that retracts these conditions.
So: Have any fellow EU resident ~tech’ies done anything fun or interesting with this new freedom yet?
To those not affected by this regulation, what would you like to “sideload”, or are perhaps already sideloading on Android?
Do any of you think big companies will move their entire palette onto an alternative store anytime soon, e.g. Facebook and sister products? To be honest, I doubt this will happen, otherwise it would’ve long occurred on the Google Play Store as well.
My ideas were:
- I’ve thought about trying to install Minecraft (the full version, probably using Pojav), or a game of similar caliber, on my phone just for fun and to see how well the iPhone GPU really fares against a “real” game, but didn’t find the time yet for looking into it.
- Also personally, I’d love to see a real “root-capable” shell on iOS, but I don’t think that will ever be a thing irrespective of how much sideloading Apple is forced to allow into their OS.
9 votes -
There's an EU petition to prevent publishers and devs from leaving games in unplayable states
70 votes -
Türkiye and Germany in spicy feud over doner kebab
23 votes