Maybe not, given it’s sold out in the screenshot. It would be for fairly old machines only, Intel iMacs from before 2020.

Well, they used to sell one, right? Windows Phone used to be a thing. As I recall though, it was equally locked down with an app store as the sole distribution method.

Yes but I don’t believe consoles are a target of the DMA or this investigation. While would be nice if consoles were opened up and forced to allow side loading and alternative stores, I think there’s an argument that they’re single purpose appliances - a PlayStation is sold to you with the intention of it being a gaming box and not much else.

A smartphone or tablet though is at this point a general purpose computer, and it’s reasonable to expect to have the same freedoms and open environment that you would on a PC. And Apple’s argument that they can’t open up the iPhone because security or whatever doesn’t really hold water, because the Mac exists and is both secure and open.

That is a US versus UK difference! In UK English it is simply a synonym for a program or policy, whereas in US English it implies something negative, often underhanded!

For instance:

🇺🇸 The scammers were running a scheme to trick people.

🇺🇸 Some consider cryptocurrency to be a scheme where one sells, leaving others holding the bag.

🇬🇧 Paying into the national pension scheme ensures you’ll receive a payment upon retirement.

🇬🇧 The company has introduced a new scheme allowing employees to work from home.

That is a US versus UK difference! In UK English it is simply a synonym for a program or policy, whereas in US English it implies something negative, often underhanded!

For instance:

🇺🇸 The scammers were running a scheme to trick people.

🇺🇸 Some consider cryptocurrency to be a scheme where one sells, leaving others holding the bag.

🇬🇧 Paying into the national pension scheme ensures you’ll receive a payment upon retirement.

🇬🇧 The company has introduced a new scheme allowing employees to work from home.

Not that this justifies the response of the US, but the phrasing is ambiguous. Wonder if they mean this in the sense of, they had booked accommodations for some but not the entire of their trip, or if they mean, they had booked none at all so their entire trip was open.

Laughs in European

Whichever one you say, I say the other one.

Sorry if a dumb question but what is a “tradwife”? (Not a native speaker)

Wow, I just looked him up on Wikipedia and you’re right. It’s way more than just producing a sitcom episode. Dude is legit on a crusade.

Well, that’s what I mean by “not really”, as opposed to “not at all”. It’s a single as placement - searching in the App Store. One result. No user data. That’s it.

They used to have a real advertising business but shut it down some years ago, it was called iAd.

Apple doesn’t really have an advertising business. You can criticize them for many things, but it’s hard to fault them for a market they don’t operate in.

I would be interested to hear trans’ users opinions on whether they view themselves and/or prefer to be treated as literally the same as the other biological gender, or something different.

E.g., male-to-female trans folks, do you hold that there is only one kind of woman and you are no different from those born as women?

Or do you think that transgender people have a fundamentally different experience, and thus trans women are a little different category of women?

I don’t mean any offense by the question, I’d really just like to know how people see themselves.

So basically the bluesky source code is now public domain?

Switch cards hold a maximum of 32GB, maybe that’s why? Although it seems no excuse for Switch 2, given it’s a whole new generation, why not support larger cards? I mean you can buy a 256GB microSD for $15, and that’s a private individual buying one; at scale, the memory can’t be too expensive…

I guess that makes sense

But if that agricultural sector isn’t that productive, does it even make sense at an EU level? Aren’t you better off trying to move to a services and information economy as much as possible, while you let countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy handle agriculture? The solidarity of EU membership would mean you could rely on this kind of arrangement.

Of course, considering he’s a paranoid former KGB agent who won’t even sit at a normal table with his closest advisors, it would not exactly be trivial to drop him.

True, but realistically for most people the lack of Google Play is a non starter. Unless you’re really technical and committed to FOSS, you’re going to need every day apps in there.

IMO the biggest issue on mobile is not even the stores but the fact that both platforms are so tightly integrated with the cloud and the account signed into the OS. Again, if you’re an ordinary user, you can barely do anything without it being tied to your Google account or whatever. Everything from maps to notes to music, it’s all tied up in that.

You can still very easily use macOS without an Apple ID or iCloud account, actually. You lose out on iMessage, FaceTime and the App Store, basically. But that’s about it. And they don’t nag you about it ever again unless you try to send an iMessage or what have you.

On iOS and Android it’s effectively a requirement though, because App Store / Google Play. Phone is not too useful if you can’t install any apps.