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by reorder9695 185 days ago
But this isn't sacrificing your experience, you're free to keep using your Apple AirPods with the quality and reliability you'd expect from Apple. This just means other brands can create products with similar features to AirPods, and if they're not as good or reliable, well that's why you're paying Apple for theirs.
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tekknik 182 days ago
It removes incentives to differentiate a platform because the EU will just come in and make every company exactly the same by forcing others to allow other companies access to their R&D budgets. Why bother? It’s easier to just avoid the EU market
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websap 183 days ago
The best code is no code. Every line of extra code added, and every extra platform supported is potential for more bugs, which has the potential to affect my user experience.
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DANmode 185 days ago
I see their point.

If Apple knew they would need to expand this feature past their gear, possible they’d never have implemented.

We may never know what stays unimplemented due to this.

(This is a neutral take - note I do not have a personal opinion formed in this “debate”.)

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supermatt 184 days ago
> If Apple knew they would need to expand this feature past their gear, possible they’d never have implemented.

And this is EXACTLY why they need to open up more core access to their devices. So someone else can innovate.

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DANmode 184 days ago
Why they need to be forced to, you mean?

I'm not seeing an incentive structure for them to change being the only source of good workflows for their users - it's their whole thing "It just works" - regardless of if it's true in practice or not.

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reorder9695 184 days ago
If you want the "it just works" experience, you can still buy the Apple products though, that's not changing. You just also have the option to not do so.
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tekknik 182 days ago
which other company spends as much investing in UX? there is not a single other company on the planet with as polished of a user experience as apple, so who would develop a better workflow?
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supermatt 184 days ago
Indeed. They have shown (and keep showing via blatant malicious compliance) that they can’t be trusted to play fairly.
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