The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
  • niucllos@lemm.ee
    14·
    8 months ago

    “We need you to stop making a good product forcing your customers to only use your version so your customers can finally move away from it.” Fixed it. Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation

          • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            8 months ago

            Not really, pretty much every brand has had security issues and they all patch them fairly quickly

            • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
              14·
              8 months ago

              Thats not true. There are still phones out there being actively used that have been end of life for years now. There is no way to corral those insecure devices.

              • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
                4·
                8 months ago

                I’d have to review exactly how long each brand releases updates for, especially because they’ve all been one upping each other recently. However there’s nothing specific to Apple’s anticompetitive behavior that relates to how long they release updates for.

                Ideally they’d all provide support for longer

                • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  The lack of updates to old devices might be exactly why apple doesn’t want to be compatible with them. It’s a HUGE attack surface. They can’t babysit every device’s downfall.

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Is there an answer to that question that would make these practices reasonable? (while also being plausibly true)

          • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            8 months ago

            In what way is a device you’ve purchase and paired with your phone, requesting that the phone it’s paired to make a noise; a security flaw/issue?

              • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                Are you high?

                Tracking?

                Explain to me how you would perform any sort of tracking via a secured communication between two devices: ‘hey phone, can you beep once’ ‘sure’ beep.

                • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  Sure. An ex-boyfriend doesn’t take the breakup from his girlfriend well, and decides to locate her. He remembers his phone used to be paired with hers, and decides to use that to find her.

                  As much as you want to fight me and make fun of me for this, this is a serious concern.

                  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
                    2·
                    8 months ago

                    That makes no sense.

                    We aren’t talking about two phones paired with each other, were talking about a pair of headphones or a smart watch, causing the phone it’s linked to to make a sound. Nothing more.

                    There is absolutely 0 opportunity to acquire a location from that.

                    Beyond that; apple products, specifically airpods and apple’s smart watch, have these abilities.

                    Why would it be a security flaw to allow an Apple manufactured device to perform these functions, but not a third party device, utilizing the exact same implementations?

                    Try again.

            • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
              14·
              8 months ago

              Thats why I’m asking if they know why the feature was removed so I can look up the specifics.