[mdhb]

It just happened to coincide with the moment the EU started looking quite seriously at what they were doing.

They have tried to hobble the web as a platform for fairly obvious reasons for as long as they could.

They don’t deserve any credit for whatever progress they made, it was done unwillingly at gunpoint.

[moffkalast]

"You mean to tell me there's this thing called the world wide web, where anyone can just host anything and all people need to access it is a few words typed into a program that runs on anything? They don't need to buy our proprietary iDevices?! They don't even need to pay us a yearly ransom to put their stuff onto our store?! But what if it's something we don't approve of? This is preposterous and I want it dead."

- Tim Apple, probably

I wonder what kind of preachy "we are so brave" excuse it will be this time now that they're finally forced to allow app sideloading by the EU and Japan.