America Is Suing Apple

In this video I discuss the antitrust lawsuit that the United States Department of Justice has brought against Apple for anti competitive behavior.
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[@mcbill7352]

amazing how governments are keeping corporations in check. Its almost like that is their job or something

[@kingayman5225]

But Apple will win, I can just feel it. Too many holes for them to build narratives.

[@Noneofyourbusiness2000]

I missed the part of the constitution that says it's the government's job to keep corporations in check.

[@benchoflemons398]

It’s not their job. It’s the consumers job. The governments job is solely to protect natural rights.

[@WorldKeepsSpinnin]

@@snaeshaads8203what will “their” justice be? They wont care

[@Stormmblade]

The government's actually doing a pretty terrible job with that one lately. I'm shocked that they're actually doing this one

[@HappypandaAJ]

Personally, I think they should be fighting for right to repair too. The amount of restriction that comes with replacing a battery or putting in a new screen if you don’t go through one of their Apple-authorized repair shops is insane.

[@freedustin]

*also even if you do use authorized repair shops

[@mr.y.mysterious.video1]

forthcoming eu rule suggests batteries must be user replaceable

[@thatoneperson1145]

Right here lol @MichaelDustter

[@janzibansi9218]

You dont get it. Having unique hardware serial numbers that have to be paired or your fingerprint sensor and cam won't work is for security reasons! Its to secure more money for apple. You spend 1000$ + on that phone already, pay some more. You insecure little biscuit... You need that blue chat bubble and you will sink more money into repairing your apple instead of buying a capable phone that makes green bubbles for the same price.

[@herbacious]

Good thing Oregon recently made right to repair into law recently.

[@ShadowManceri]

100% sure Apple will make Android compatibility and then say it was their decision because they want to support that. Playing PR out like they are the good guys.

[@mutestingray]

They’ve already started by announcing RCS compatibility.

[@novaTopFlex]

As I had already mentioned in my other comments here, I personally believe that monopolization is the result of loss of consumer rights, including right-to-repair, as well as the result of closed-source software. I wish Big Tech could be stopped by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in these United States of America, and by forcing Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other corporations to open-source all of their code, I believe that monopolization could be stopped successfully. This is the same reason why I am considering System76 for my next PC.

[@GatekeeperofOld]

Just like Starbucks promoting hiring veteran wives and veterans

[@Dystopikachu]

A woman on Tinder once started a conversation by making sure I was an Iphone user. I told her 'no, but I can get one just to talk to you, I have one phone for each of my girlfriends anyway'. The joke strangely didn't land, don't know why.

[@Nobody90019]

You were below her standards. That's 80/90% of all men, welcome to current year.

[@xcidgaf]

@@Nobody90019not current yr, but human history

[@godnyx117]

Because she isn't an Apple user? They are not known for their intelligence...

[@feynstein1004]

Dodged a bullet there, mate

[@joefilter2923]

@@godnyx117 that’s right only the most brilliant used Motorola phones

[@alt666]

Apple being so locked down is why i switched back to android. And if someone doesn't like me because i'm on a better cheaper phone from any company that isn't apple then they aren't worth knowing.

[@Haise-san]

Yeah like wtf, imagine marrying someone like that "oh no, you got fired, we're breaking up"

[@muhammad-bin-american]

Absolutely!

[@HNedel]

And that’s the solution! People have the choice to leave the walled garden 😮 Shocking, i know… it’s not the government’s job to make sure the garden is not walled. Otherwise the government should offer alternatives to paying taxes, for example to other public service providers beside their own. I should have the right to choose which TSA agency searches me at the airport, or which DMV alternative agency issues my license.

[@novaTopFlex]

And I am currently in the struggle to switch to Linux. The only portion of my current experience I will feel like I miss on is simply GarageBand/Logic Pro from Apple. Someday I may even want to switch to Signal.

[@markm0000]

@@Haise-san that happens quite often. Gold diggers are everywhere.

[@gerardmarquinarubio9492]

Noooo my favourite trillion dollar company is going to lose le dollarinos 😢

[@d7mf3j]

no arrow

[@coldestbeer]

Le monopoly money

[@myxobe]

​@@AgentX-dh3lfwhooosh

[@misanthrophex]

@@myxobe whoosherrino*

[@iCookCrystalMeth]

@@AgentX-dh3lfr/woosh 😂😂😂 haha you didn’t get the joke bro😂😂😂

[@domm6812]

Absolutely this is way worse than the Microsoft antitrust case, and I've been amazed for many years now that the FTC has just been blatantly ignoring monopolistic behaviours and practices. This is ridiculously overdue, and heads should have rolled within the US gov for lack of action. They've made this way harder for themselves waiting so long.

[@Demopans5990]

Well, the FTC was defunded for some time

[@ahmedp8009]

My boy Tim Cook must've pissed off someone up the chain.

[@lordofdawn]

No doubt that there are people inside the government getting "benefits" from apple

[@skop3609]

it’s because they’re being lobbied (bribed)

[@MrEdrftgyuji]

​@@skop3609 Also, the government benefits massively from the mass surveillance from these corporations. This just wasn't the case for Microsoft in the 90s.

[@gslim7337]

I now know why Apple didn't go ahead with the Apple Car. Someone must have told them that they can't force owners to use Apple only manufactured roads

[@keit99]

Ah the good old car joke. If Microsoft built cars they would run on any street but break down constantly. If "linux" (I know linux isn't a single entity) the car would work not break down, but not be able to use every road/have trouble doing it. And apple cars would only run on one street built by apple

[@Staniel_]

Shoutout Louis Rossman

[@RandomButBeautiful]

he's such a whiner I cannot stand him. Much prefer this channel right here.

[@Omega-mr1jg]

@@RandomButBeautiful didnt know you prefer schizphrenic content over normalcy

[@blitzstrk0]

@@Omega-mr1jg What about this channel is "schizphrenic" and what about a grown man unable to curb his whiny tone is "normalcy" for that matter?

[@M16-bf4ku]

@@RandomButBeautiful no one cares about you little boy

[@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU]

What did apple to do upset the US and EU overlords? Something must have happened, did they somehow refuse to give some spying data or similar? They had to do something, this doesnt normally happen if they cooperate and have good relations with agencies.

[@packjackisback]

Apple wouldn't refuse that, they've already been doing that.

[@BasedHyperborean]

Yes. They have a long history of not allowing feds unfettered access to peoples' phones. And just implemented post quantum encryption into iMessage for more security. Apple's based tbh. Wish open source dorks weren't so blind with hatred that they can't see it, but it's true.

[@BasedHyperborean]

Yep. They have a long history of not allowing glowies access to peoples' phones, and glowies hate them because of it. Notice how this is happening right after Apple announces post quantum encryption coming to iMessage.

[@SyntaxErr19287]

Quantum encryption rollout

[@emdeo]

government actually exists to regulate, fun fact. I know the US can make it seem like its just an extension of business, but that's not generally the case.

[@MauritsBuijs]

By you saying 'the argument against Microsoft sounded pretty weak to me' and 'nothing prevented you from using a different browser', I can clearly tell you either were not around back in the day or you were not paying attention. Internet Explorer was monopolizing the business and education internet by using all kinds of proprietary extensions to the HTML standard together with software such as ActiveX and Moonlight, other browsers were not allowed to use. This strategy is called 'embrace, extend, extinguish'; there are articles on it. This made the situation both hell for developers and consumers. Developers could not ignore Internet Explorer because of the big market-share and thus needed to develop for that browser. But if customers wanted to use a different browser, then developers were forced to develop the software again in an entirely different way or to say to no consumers. Students or employees who needed to use a certain web-page could not simply say 'I want to use a different browser than IE to visit that webpage' when the webpage would just refuse to offer service/functionalities.

[@TheFrantic5]

That moment when you thought you were getting a walled garden but it was actually a walled prison.

[@AuxiliaryPanther]

With one plant. GaRdEn.

[@akg_table]

but you chose to get in?

[@Praisethesunson]

​@@akg_tableLol you can't choose to be ripped off. Stop thinking like a serf

[@nbansal]

Ideal scenario for all platforms - 1. I should be allowed to change it (root). 2. Download and install things directly from web (GitHub). 3. Equal access for developers (Super Apps). 4. Change and remove default apps at least the ones that are not mandatory (ex - remove FaceTime, but not the base layer that makes video calling work) 5.

[@nbansal]

5 Full ownership of the device and thus, Right to repair.

[@novaTopFlex]

Ideal scenario: All software is open-source, period. That way monopolization can be prevented, and monetization will be restricted to fairly low levels, and having too little money is better than having too much in my opinion because of the monopolization issue.

[@wilh3lmmusic]

Add unlocking the bootloader and installing an operating system of your choice on a device that you own to #1

[@yunglords]

and get trillions of developed viruses

[@knifekitty_ls]

meanwhile in EU, if you root android you dont get to use your internet banking apps (doesnt seem to be the case for all banks just yet but theyre slowly rolling it out)

[@Ryan-yh3wn]

I used to flip-flop between Android/Apple flagship when I used to upgrade my phones. I completely swore off Apple devices in High-School after getting into more casual reading and went to take my books that I purchased and paid FULL PRICE for from my Apple device and move them onto my new android, only to figure out that they were DRM locked to Apple devices. Why did I pay you full price to not own my own the book? why are you charging me MSRP to force me to stay in your walled garden. That singular issue opened my eyes to just how predatory a lot of these companies are and turned me into a full-on pirate and made me so much more cognoscente of my overall online purchasing habits. Ill go buy the paperback in-store and then torrent it to bring it onto my kindle/phone for reading on the go. Thanks Apple for opening my eyes at such a young age.

[@joefilter2923]

You were young and dumb😊

[@xrafter]

This DRM problem isn't just in apple. Although other book services like googles or amazons are more open and you can read them in more devices.

[@akg_table]

That's not on Apple. If Android wanted you to have those books, they would. It works on an Apple device, why is it Apple's fault if it doesnt work on an Android device?

[@Ryan-yh3wn]

@@akg_tableWhen you buy a book on the store you are buying an ePub - this is the most standard format for an electronic book you can purchase. You can import your own ePubs onto an iPhone and they work just fine , you just cannot take the ePubs that you purchased off of the platform because they are DRM locked. It has nothing to do with the format or it "working" on x y z platform and if apple let me move them off my apply ID android would happily let me "have those books" on my other device, as again, it's the MOST STANDARD format for online books that there is. It is 100% on Apple when they apply a DRM to your digital asset. In my younger ignorance I was under the impression they acted as a host for just buying online books that you would own - I figured out I was wrong as stated in my OP. That is why I don't by books online anymore. I will buy the paperback so the author gets their cut and then torrent it in .ePub and .awz so I can have native kindle and general ePub formats for my mobile reading.

[@Ryan-yh3wn]

@@xrafterYes that is why I said "That singular issue opened my eyes to just how predatory a lot of these companies are and turned me into a full-on pirate and made me so much more cognoscente of my overall online purchasing habits" and " Ill go buy the paperback in-store and then torrent it to bring it onto my kindle/phone for reading on the go".

[@americankid7782]

I hate Apple. I refuse to buy any of their Phones, Computers, or other technology that they sell. It’s entirely because of how they act.

[@muhammad-bin-american]

Absolutely correct.

[@kateanderson8384]

IPods were good, but yea everything else is garbage

[@geeshta]

Same! I even admit that they do make some really good quality products but I'm not buying them from a company like this...

[@muhammad-bin-american]

@@geeshta Yes that's true. No denying that Apple revolutionized the smartphone. But now they are too greedy and doing everything possible to slow down innovation. Why? Because they are very afraid to take risks when this current strategy is working very well for them. I mean which other company can release the same exact product year after year for a long time and still attract insane amount growth? Apple today is very bad for tech overall and also terrible for consumers. Add their planned obsolescence plan to that and you are left with a pretty terrible company for consumers.

[@DanyTPG]

Finally this shit company is being forced to behave

[@musicalneptunian]

Behave? One billion dollars...

[@BasedHyperborean]

Bro if you're governcucked just say that.

[@lance_374]

It's the U.S., they will probably just pay off the right judge and get a $10 fine, and be asked nicely to not do it again. Think of Tim Apple, he might need to cut back on his yachts or whatever else the billionaires spend on these days.

[@Strawberry_champagne203]

​@lance_374 do you have to give tip on your fine (I'm not American) so it's 10+ tip?

[@shlomoaziz411]

over priced apple crap

[@BasedHyperborean]

lol it's funny cuz ur pfp

[@Tilb0]

@@BasedHyperboreanfree Israel 🇮🇱

[@BasedHyperborean]

​@@Tilb0 Kanye West is right about y'all.

[@thedog7494]

I thought your people loved overpriced garbage

[@wildowarkson8774]

Honestly Apple delivers top notch performance. But on the other hand it doesn’t let you pirate apps like Spotify, KZbin and other services. Android all the way

[@charautreal]

when you become too evil for even the glowies

[@Cahangir]

what does glowie mean? i mean who are they?

[@SconnerStudios]

@@Cahangir Feds who don't wear badges but still are feds. Most prominent MAGA people are glowies. The proud boys guy, Baked Alaska, Nick Fuentes, pretty much any right wing influencer who eggs on the faction of Trump's not-so-smart base that just needs a cheerleader to get them to be violent. Allows the feds to have a boogeyman to propose and enact more civil liberty restrictions and domestic spying. They exist on the left too, but left wingers don't have that faction the right has where they are legitimately schizophrenic to the point they're willing to be violent just by someone beating their chest.

[@atijohn8135]

@@Cahangir google Terry A. Davis

[@mayatrash]

It’s actually the opposite. The glowies want more control, that’s it

[@BasedHyperborean]

@@Cahangirfederal agents

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

Been using Linux computers only for over 5 years. Best decision in my life.

[@BeTechAware]

Linux is great I agree! I’m saving up for a pinephone pro so I can have Mobile Linux

[@richtigmann1]

As the DoJ themselves say: 'Apple co-founder Steve Jobs criticized Microsoft’s monopoly and “dirty tactics” in operating systems to target Apple, which prompted the company “to go to the Department of Justice” in hopes of getting Microsoft “to play fair.” But even at that time, Apple did not face the same types of restrictions it imposes on third parties today; Apple users could use their iPod with a Windows computer, and Microsoft did not charge Apple a 30 percent fee for each song downloaded from Apple’s iTunes store.' Even apple complained about microsoft's unfair monopoly power, even though the unfair monopolies they faced were nowhere as bad as the ones they are imposing now. That is.... kind of ironic..

[@BasedHyperborean]

Seems sus as fuck that this is happening so shortly after Apple announcing post quantum encryption coming to iMessage. Just sayin’.

[@George-wk1ww]

Yeah seems like apple doesn’t want to give access to the government 😂

[@EVEMASTER99]

The government doesn't move that fast. This had to have been brewing for years.

[@k-c]

Tech companies seem to be an emerging power in many cases more than many present nation states.

[@chanting_germ.]

This has been happening for longer than that. Pls be educated.

[@MikeSW]

Election year

[@catcollision8371]

That footage of sheep heading to apple store, soo accurate. lol😂

[@elimcfly350]

Getting rejected by a date for having a green bubble is a feature, not a bug. They're doing me a favor.

[@yellowice0]

Now when is the right to repair going to come into effect for us here in America, and the little people who are handy and want to save money can fix things easily rather than the corporation saying "NO YOU CAN'T FIX THAT YOURSELF, Bring it to us and it'll only cost you an absurd amount of money!"

[@rickperez8975]

Probably because apple exposed the big guys involvement in not letting them patch the notification exploit

[@harvardsmithdeangelo6905]

Context?

[@zlikez]

@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905search NSA tracking apple notifications on google n read some articles. pretty crazy stuff

[@matt5721]

What's it like having ants in your brain?

[@joefilter2923]

@@matt5721 oh really, when the entire industry does much the same, and actually worse worldwide.

[@matt5721]

@@joefilter2923 Apple is facing this regulation for acting like a monopoly and a cartel. The NSA using every smart phone as a listening device is not relevant to this

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

My opinion as someone who never used ANY apple products since the nineties is, if you don't like apples restrictive platforms, DON'T BUY THEM

[@IntangirVoluntaryist]

Government almost never makes anything better, and in situations like this they are only going after them out of greed, not justice

[@Jeroen4]

Exactly. I see alot of people very happy with their apple products, and a lot of people trying to convince them they are in fact nót happy lol

[@Problemsolver434]

You see when apple does these things and gets away with it, other companies copy them, and then there won't be any proper alternative anymore, even for those who refused to buy apple products. So cracking down on these things now is good. And they've also made it hard to leave their ecosystem without losing some data

[@wetfart420]

@@Problemsolver434who copied apple on that?

[@timothyt.82]

Apple? I prefer Oranges.

[@musicalneptunian]

🥝 > 🍏

[@brittanycunningham787]

The apple logo is in reference to the garden of eden story. Apple wants all the knowledge in the world just like eve did. That's why the logo and company is named apple

[@brittanycunningham787]

I saw it in a documentary about Steve jobs

[@DavidPereiraLima123]

As much as people hate pharma, I prefer the doctor.

[@BasedHyperborean]

@@brittanycunningham787 🙄 you clearly don't have anything worth saying here, stop it.

[@anon-kun5418]

iToddlers BTFO?

[@condescendingonlineman2136]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@forbiddentictactoe1734]

IToddlers status: BTFO'd

[@chekkibrekkiv1.245]

>iToddlers BTFO? why are you poor. Post your hand. No i wont post my hand

[@LuaGunsX]

​@@chekkibrekkiv1.245 don't worry, I can replace parts of my computer

[@LuaGunsX]

@@chekkibrekkiv1.245 dw I can replace parts of my computer

[@Litepaw]

It's incredible how bad some of the iCultists are coping and seething at something that's inherently a good thing. Imagine basing your entire personality around a brand.

[@Staniel_]

I’m broke as fuck but that’s not the issue. (Apple user) If your card declines they lock your only payment method until you have money and you can’t even install free shit or things you already own…and the only fix is adding ANOTHER payment method so they can steal more from you. I hate this phone

[@fucuszullanti7877]

@@Staniel_ There's a cool invention called cash

[@Staniel_]

@@fucuszullanti7877 okay smartass when have you paid for a bill in cash

[@casualintrovert207]

no, its not a good thing. I switched to apple in 2021 and I could never look back, the experience is just too good. The ecosystem is the whole point of getting into apple, I knew that when I bought my first iPhone. They are trying to kill what makes Apple Apple. The closed environment IS WHAT WE WANT.

[@GigsVT]

It wasn't about not being able to install an alternative to ie on windows. IE supported completely broken and nonstandard html, and MS Frontpage produced websites that only worked in IE. Using a browser other than IE wasn't even an option unless you didn't care about it just not working on maybe 30% of websites. This affected even people who didn't use windows. Back then I used opera and Linux and it sucked so bad that the entire web was written in IE tag soup that only sometimes worked on other browsers.

[@krazownik3139]

That's also one of the reasons why IE was "supported" for so long, even after it's popularity tanked with raise of Firefox and chromium based browsers. Hell, even after it was fully replaced by Edge. One of the biggest clients of Microsoft are corporations and government offices, and those tend to run on software written even 20 years ago. As a result still a significant parts of early WebApps (like CCTV control app in my previous job) are in IE-only compatible swamp-software zone.

[@eksteenius]

There is no way i caught this video after 12 seconds

[@Kentuckygoatman]

I got it after 3 minutes

[@Lord_Jin_Kazama]

I did

[@ishmaelcamillo]

6 min❤

[@choppystorm-jq3wn]

8 minutes

[@CromulentCorpse]

Why do you idiots make such a big deal about catching the video early?

[@notyoutube8128]

Wow some check the temperature in hell, it must be freezing down there

[@HaloWolf102]

We have Louis Rossman to thank for this. He has influenced loads of people to lobby for 'Right to Repair'. Kudos man. Everything is coming together.

[@crazyhobo5263]

"consumers" *shows picture of sheep* Good stuff lol

[@GustavoPinho89]

5:10 98 Gates looks like your average 2020 campus l3sbi4n 😂😂😂😂

[@nikoraasu6929]

brooo lmao

[@isbestlizard]

Heard about the sshd backdoor hidden in xz which some dude spent YEARS getting to the point he was maintainer and able to sneak it in? It is INSANE how much effort he went through and how sneaky he was hiding a backdoored object file in binary 'test data' then patching the build so it snipped it out of the test files and linked it so when run as sshd via systemd it could hack a call to an rsa public key checker FOR MALICIOUS PURPOSES probably to install a HARDCODED ALWAYS VALID KEY

[@ville609]

Cant wait for the xz utils glowie backdoor video

[@iuse9646]

I'm wondering where the glowie involvement comes into play for the xz package

[@Jeroen4]

I use an iphone and I fucking love it, but I love these developments even more. Let’s hope it gets somewhere

[@stage6fan475]

I'm still amazed Apple didn't get wiped out by Samsung the way IBM PC got wiped out by generics PCs. A modern smartphone can do just about anything imaginable, I don't think there is any room for innovation that is important.

[@muhammad-bin-american]

Actually the smartphone industry is a duopoly. Samsung benefits a lot from Apple's success. They make their displays. Other areas they collaborate as well. Google make deals with Apple too. So the industry is stagnant mainly because they system is rigged by the big companies and its long overdue that something is done about that.

[@VallisMansonOfficial]

iPad Kidz™: **literally seething**

[@Strawberry_champagne203]

You don't need an iPad to watch brainrot, yt works in Android too :(

[@ilyassakhanov6438]

Hey there, I enjoy Linux but I am tired of constant debugging and consider getting a macbook. What would you recommend?

[@redpillsatori3020]

What's going on with Apple lately? All of these legal issues or problems with Apple have happened just in the past month. First they get fined by the EU for €2 billion, then the US DOJ is suing them for the way they block 3rd-party app stores and payment processors on mobile devices, then I find out this week that my M1 Macbook has a side-chain vulnerability that allows it to get hacked if someone physical has possession of it, and then, the other night, I get the "Black Screen of Death" on my iPhone when I attempt to update to iOS v17.4 after reading about how important it is for "security" (I was able to fix it, eventually, by restoring the iPhone from a backup on my Mac). Is this all coincidence, and Apple is just having a string of bad luck lately, or is something going on?

[@asmithgames5926]

Funny how Apple has the most loyal fanbase, yet also F's their customers the hardest.

[@RM-xs3ci]

I applied for an I.T role at an Apple store before. I had an Android phone at the time, but have used iPhone for years prior to that, so I knew my way around both. I didn't get the job because I didn't have an iPhone.

[@matthias6933]

wait. Why didn‘t they just give you one???

[@harvardsmithdeangelo6905]

damn u got sharted on my man

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

I mean c'mon man, as much as I hate Apple they do have a good reason to not hire you. If you applied for a McDonalds job and told them you love eating Burger King, why would they hire you?

[@harvardsmithdeangelo6905]

@@user-og6hl6lv7p really bad and weird example

[@RM-xs3ci]

​@@user-og6hl6lv7p I don't think that's a fair comparison. Tech is pretty different from McDonald's and Burger King. As an IT professional, being well-versed in multiple operating systems is actually an asset. It allows you to better understand and assist a wider range of users. The goal is to provide the best possible customer service and technical support. When I applied to the Apple Store, I had years of experience with Apple ecosystem and a deep understanding of the platform. The fact that I was using an Android phone at the time doesn't negate that knowledge or my ability to support iPhone users. I think a candidate's skills, experience, and enthusiasm for the role should carry more weight than their personal device choices. Judging someone's fit solely based on the current phone in their pocket seems as absurd as a GameStop refusing to hire a gamer because they play on PC instead of Xbox. It's shortsighted. Not every Apple store does this though. It depends on who is doing the hiring.

[@RushZone]

What about Google? They literally have a 90% market share on search engines...

[@alexmm01]

Nice to hear someone else who believes this should have happened years ago. It is amazing how long they have flown under the radar. It is almost as if their lobbying efforts worked too too well.

[@jason-anthonygaskin7867]

I'm really concerned that super apps like WeChat keep showing up as problems in these government docs. Do they want Google or Meta to create a super app to have even more data than they have right now?

[@ronaldosd]

Hey, Mental Have you seen the backdoor found in a lib used during ssh in distros with systemd? Someone found the NSA commit 😂

[@jaralara6429]

6:30 I think a part of that browser argument was that Microsoft implemented some APIs exclusively for IE and they were not accessible to competing browsers

[@timebroua]

Nice topic to talk about! Back to S.Jobs presentations of earlier iPhone, he promised an ability to easily upload software through iTunes, not only by AppStore

[@BehrInMind]

I used to use Apple when I was in high school back when iTunes first came out and I had an iPod and iPhone, it was easy to use and I would drag and drop music from Limewire into my iPod. Once they removed that, I was done with Apple. I always called it a Walled Garden after that.

[@xavierd3298]

Limewire was full of spam and Trojan links. You bozos are true morons. I'll take not getting hacked any day over getting shit music from lime wire

[@randomdebris]

0:48 Apple doesn't color the messages of your friends, they color **your messages** based on the protocol: blue is iMessage and is free and green is SMS and could be costly I personally would prefer it if Apple would be forced to at the very least have to support XMPP again (in a meaningful manner) and maybe like allow it to be extend with 3rd party protocols

[@vendetta.02]

1:05 based kitty keeping their owner from using apple products 💪💪💪💪💪

[@shapelessed]

Honestly, I'm quite happy that this lawsuit is taking place. And that's with me using a MacBook and an iPad for creative work. I think there are far too many people who attach their identity to a brand and try to protect that brand as if it were their complete integrity.

[@vhateg]

The only people affected by this are investors. That's it. AKA people that don't work for their money anyway. And the only further people that get triggered by this are people that invested a lot into the ecosystem and political weirdos that think that keeping companies in check somehow steps over their rights

[@shapelessed]

@@vhateg By all means, investors who multiply their wealth by trading, so "traders" - Yeah, screw them. They don't really add anything to the world (I'm to some extent one of these guys but let's skip over that topic). The type of investors who invest their wealth into companies who are in need of finance and that are promising to bring something to the world that's ultimately useful to consumers - These people are sadly much needed in our economy now. There's too much competition to do your own branding, unless you're lucky and are already well known, which generally takes years to get to and is too slow. But in general, investors who are there solely for the money - These do not introduce much to society. These who actually help companies develop and ship - These are a requirement now.

[@emilio_bruns]

I don't know if it is only my problem, but now if you open a word, PowerPoint, etc. document form Teams it opens up using edge even if I set Firefox as the default browser.

[@jimjam742]

the windows 10 debloat script from github can disable that, think there's an equivalent script for windows 11 as well

[@davidletarte214]

when i first saw this on instagram all the comments were full of people like, 'big bad gov't bullies pickin on poor widdwe innocent apple, don't they have anything better to do!?' like no this is literally gov't's job... whether it does it well & follows through will be a different story.

[@princewavy237]

Fr? Wow. As much as I like my Apple devices I don’t mind and fully support them and other offenders getting bullied by governments to give me as a consumer a better user experience. People are just lost and it’s sad that this stuff isn’t more widely known.

[@pluto8404]

knowing the government, they will screw up whatever the propose, and we will all be worse off.

[@chancenicely2417]

What's going on with the XZ backdoor Linux thing?

[@RandomButBeautiful]

was this shenanigans post-Jobs or was he all the way into it also? I have this basic narrative in my head that he was one of the good guys and that since he departed it all went to shit, but I am not holding on too tightly to it.

[@mihkostas1340]

4:36 If you were going to be rejected by a woman like that, then i thank Apple for making it easier to not waste my time.

[@EnzoBergstrom]

The fact that no other cloud backup solution then icloud allows you to sync in background is a huge issue. Google photoes wont sync your photoes until you launch it again even with backround activity allowed. While iCloud works in background.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Meh, its all about Government access to devices and data.

[@peterjansen4826]

I didn't know about the green vs blue bubble. Fascinating.

[@josechomali]

How does making the AppStore fees higher threats competition? Isn’t that giving the chance to other companies to at least compite in terms of price with them? Developers could offer the same apps for less in android thanks to Apple

[@holderian0]

Talk about the xz backdoor that was recently fixed by one guy that was curious because of a 500 ms of delay when ssh

[@7heMech]

Always a good day when mental outlaw releases a new video.

[@bigPoe]

Was tweaking waiting for you to talk about this

[@colewilson823]

The cat still swinging after breaking that mac is priceless.

[@AlexanderBukh]

Yep, was worth it.

[@F_Around_and_find_out]

The walled-garden is fine, but it becomes a problem, much like any human things become problems, when Apple wants to make the walled-garden the only thing people should use while telling people outside the garden that they are essentially worthless. There is no one size fits all for humanity and one cannot have everything, but Apple insisted and now they got all kind of wrong attentions. GG WP Apple.

[@ValentineElCarbona]

I want apple to be broken apart along with google. My only question is whats preventing these from happening... >Will foreign companies/countries try to flood the market and replace apple if they're weakened? (Sorta like Walmart with small business.) >Will foreign companies simply buy up the new companies? (American business should be owned by Americans not only for security but for their interest.) >Will a foreign companies just buy all the new stocks? (American business stocks should be majority owned by Americans for the same reason.) I want apple to be broken apart but I also don't want another business or country to simply replace their monopoly or having control of their subsidize.I would think limiting foreign competition until the American technology sector gains a foothold is a good idea but I honestly don't know. Last time we did major monopoly busting like this America was the only king on the hill and now there are a ton of people trying to dethrone us at every chance.

[@Zubbbz]

Still funny to me that after years of criticism, they found a way to convince people that a hole in the screen is actually a feature

[@muhammad-bin-american]

LOL

[@BasedHyperborean]

You mean the same “hole” that all Android phones have? It’s a front facing camera bbygurl.

[@Zubbbz]

@@BasedHyperborean well yeah but most manufacturers did the sensible thing and made it as small as possible.

[@BasedHyperborean]

@@Zubbbzstill a dogshit take bro

[@Zubbbz]

​@@BasedHyperborean Yes. On my Pixel, all it is is that hole. I don't find it intrusive and I also am not missing a chunk from the top of my screen, just a small hole. I used to have an iPhone XR and I found that there wasn't much information able to be put at the top. The time, signal, and maybe a couple other small things. On my Pixel, I can see quite a few different notification icons, including one from my weather app that shows me at a glance what temperature it is outside. At the end of the day, its just my opinion.

[@anzov1n]

6:30 that's a simplistic take on the ie saga. Iirc There were other issues like website compatibility and the fact that ie was so deeply integrated into windows certain OS functionality was dependent on ie and it could not be removed.

[@mrnice4434]

Hm at least in Signal the quality of videos from a buddy of mine that uses Apple (I have Android) is normal, or is that low quality thing band in the EU (where we live)

[@psynuxx]

I am the opposite. I won't date people that don't use GrapheneOS. In fact, I just don't go on dates.

[@ZecaSamicas]

It's always sad news when youtube tries to not recommend me Outlaw's channel, funny enough, gotta change to Odyssey.

[@SebastianKrabs]

I'm watching this video on a 15 month old android from the dollar store. Still works perfectly and fast too! Cost me $39, was on sale. 😎👍

[@PenguinCrayon269]

are not going to cover xz debacle?

[@umeng2002]

I still have the Info Wars app icon on my iPhone.

[@analisamelojete1966]

Why is it a monopoly? I mean what’s exactly the claim?

[@endless_puns]

Isn't it 85% of US teenagers using iPhone/iOS? Sounds as close to a monopoly as you can get.

[@casualintrovert207]

@@endless_puns it's still not a monopoly because anyone can get a samsung or google phone. The whole concept of there being a "stigma" against you if you dont have an iPhone as a teenager, EVEN IF its true, should never be able to hold up in a court of law. This is literally some politician whining to the federal justice system because maybe his son was being made fun of for having a google phone or some shit, it's so dumb.

[@endless_puns]

@@casualintrovert207 I agree that in theory everyone can get an Android. But besides teenagers, this also affects other people who are not as tech savvy and who've only used iPhone. Several of my friends have always had iPhones and are reluctant of switching because of having to re-learn things. Besides, when moving, due to the lock-in from Apple's side, it's not easy to export photos & albums, complete message history and other multimedia. It's literally about making it easier for people to make more choices, maybe the exact wording is not 100% on point but I can't see why anyone would oppose making things easier for consumers.

[@casualintrovert207]

@@endless_puns yeah but its not ONLY because they're reluctant to switch because they'd have to re-learn. Whether you agree with it or not, people also just actually like and prefer the apple experience. Those of us like myself who are apple users aren't taking part in the apple ecosystem begrudgingly. We LIKE IT this way, and we want to to stay this way, for US. We understand that apple products are designed to work solely with other apple products. Ask any long time apple user and they will say the same things.

[@jacobjensen3823]

How DO you do it, dude!? You fucking rock, my dude... Seriously, I've been around since before anything... and you are the GOAT.👍 (seriously...I had an Apple lle PC... in 1984... Respect)

[@SilverTerog2]

W american goverment finally?

[@gramioerie_xi133]

it’s been so long

[@glowiedetector]

they won't do shit xd

[@ManuelCam]

Apple will never be great unless the change things like their workers conditions of work in Xinjiang. Changing their products it's not enough

[@keamogetsweizaac8530]

The App Store one is so true, in the first half of 2023 Microsoft pulled out SwiftKey from the App Store and it was unavailable to download anywhere

[@EireBallard]

How refreshing that someone still has the integrity to actually add in an [expletive] rather than tiptoe around every "potentially offensive" phrasing.

[@frostcrackle2374]

Front Page Tech made an absolutely idiotic video about how the lawsuit was moot, and how Apple is not monopolistic. Thank you for essentially debunking him without even trying to do so.

[@jasoncola6071]

I've been an android user for as long as I can remember, and only switched to an iphone because of years-long pressure from family and friends (and family verizon contract), but there really is an argument that people prefer being in the "walled garden;" they *enjoy* being sheep, so let them. If they cared enough about customization and open-source they would've had an android, but regular people (and remember, we watching this channel are definitely not an average person) just don't care and want a "phone that works." Also having the government involved in anything this big is always somewhat fishy and most definitely not motivated by any sense of justice.

[@georgesos]

"Thank you EU". You are welcome. 😊

[@JimsyFlimsy]

Just when you think Apple is getting what's coming to it, they hit you with the malicious compliance, in signature Apple fashion.

Was the picture quality issue from IOS having on RCS? I wonder if there's Google free RCS.

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

There isn't yet because our carriers are absolutely useless. Now that Apple is being forced to adopt it you can bet these carriers will be working extremely hard to implement it now

​@@AdamSmith-gs2dvI don't think carriers care about a monopol.

[@mrroel4428]

1:55 Average American geography knowledge moment. The EU is not a country, it's a regional international organisation of 27 countries.

[@TheInternationalJew]

ok nerd, then just assume he means borders of the region???

[@lolhead7127]

Why would a company decline the option of raking in profits, they would just back the politicians who allow the changes in the laws

[@cane870]

Have you heard about the unsealed courts docs detailing the feds getting a court order for Google to hand over private information on users who watched certain KZbin videos? I think it would make a good video.

[@null3081]

good video and a little sad that the US of probably wont do as much as the EU did against a US company also got a source for 7:13? ive only ever heard that Android to iMessage communication is over a different more limited protocol (maybe sms i dont remember) and that Android has to compress attachments to fit size limits of said protocol. iOS itself decreasing the quality would be a new apple low i havent heard of yet

[@jjohnn9195]

You're half right. The point is that apple only allows communication with android devices if said communications go through outdated protocols that impose these restrictions. Like most things, they're trying not to get caught holding the knife. Source: Andriod to android messaging works just fine without any of the quality losses.

[@r.orwell1981]

"The cult of Apple" aka people who like the taste of shit.

[@financemajor7341]

Apple has stooped to the lowest level of making KZbin advertisements that encourage people to max out their Goldman Sachs Apple Card on needless consumer goods complete with an Afro-Ebonics song with the lyrics “I just cashed a check, and I’m going to spend it all on chocolate”. I thought to myself there is no way that Apple has stooped to this level. In my opinion it is time for the next best thing.

[@Max-ln1du]

when you speak about the messenger app...i dont get it, why not use one from another company? easy as that...in the EU we usually use WhatsApp (by Facebook/Meta). Sure, sizes of pictures are toggled down there aswell, but its the same with the browser being pre-installed while you can download easily a new one.

[@RandomButBeautiful]

1:04 the cat biting the laptop. :D He's tryin to tell you bro!!!!

[@gr0wnup5]

MAGA - Make Apple Great Again 😂

[@MikeSW]

I don't like Apple - largely due to the guard rails around everything, but I don't see how this suit makes any sense. After seeing the Disney x Fox and ABK x Microsoft deals get the green light, it's hard for me to believe that the government regulates in good faith at all.

[@xavierd3298]

H00ked nose weasel wants side loading making apple way easier to hack. They want apple to put ports for plug in devices also making them easier to hack. This has nothing to do with helping the consumer. But we have idiots her saying oh android is better I can do more with a android

[@milesmalone4893]

currently have an iphone but I'm looking to switch to something less shite due to all of the reasons discussed in the video, what are you all using?

[@Requiem100500]

pixel

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

OnePlus 12. It Chinese but it was literally the only phone that met all my requirements (Snapdragon, unlocked bootloader, works on Verizon, less than $1000)

[@prime12602]

Get anything that has your desired hardware and install your fav custom rom, if you like privacy debloat and degoogle it.

[@LeeroyGoldmane]

I just want to play emulators on iPhone