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If only the US had the balls to keep these trillion dollar companies in line instead of the other way around.

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75 points

If only the US lacked the corruption…

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I feel like your point is almost excusing it. Just because the corruption is working doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.

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5 points

When things are so bad that corruption is legalized and encouraged, it doesn’t stop being corruption.

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22 points

I’m not sure what you mean by ; keeping in line…

I mean they’re collaborating with them to spy on the American nation and the entire world, with their creatively named secret projects…

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Always remember what comes first in any national emergency. Whats the first thing our leaders always make clear when the chips are down?

"We will do everything necessary to protect our beloved nation society struggling citizens ECONOMY."

People don’t matter here, only capital. If you are attached to meaningful capital, you will want for nothing and live in embarrassing decadence that would make pharoahs blush, if you aren’t attached to meaningful capital, you are livestock for those that are. You are less than human in the eyes of the capital hoarders in charge.

Those are our American Values in practice.

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As an American (optimistic hostage) I couldn’t agree more.

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Unregulated and unhindered capitalism is the American way. If the government interferes by saying that companies aren’t allowed to do whatever they want, that’s just socialism, communism or whatever it is that those Europeans are up to these days.

/s just in case.

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Definitely need to do more, but, consumers could choose android over apple. Apples walled garden bullshit is why the only apple devices I’ve ever had were a couple of old school ipods and various Macintoshs going back to the IIe.

It sucks moving platforms. I did it going from blackberry to android but with android I can buy any phone I want and it’s mine to do with as I please and plenty of phones have community support to keep an android version updated and secure.

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As someone who’s only owned Androids, it’s just a different walled garden. It’s a duopoly instead of a monopoly.

You can’t really own your phone whatever you do. Even if you root it all your important apps like banking ones will stop working so there really isn’t a choice.

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Android is a walled garden that has a gate with a latch. If one cares to put in the effort it isn’t terribly difficult to root Android and strip the Google stuff.
Apple is a walled garden that simply has empty void on the other side of a 4 foot thick concrete wall. Jailbreaking has limited results and an incredible amount of DRM is integrated at the kernel and hardware level that can never be removed.

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The US absolutely has the balls. They’re currently bound and being used by the corporations to lead us around.

Yeah, we should probably say something about how they treat us, but God damn if our politicians don’t have the biggest fucking orgasm every time a billionaire compliments them.

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“The US has the balls.”

Ah yes, that’s why the government is on it’s knees in front of these corporations … because it has balls… yep, the government sure has balls … on it’s chin.

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4 points

I feel like you didn’t read my comment since we’re essentially making the same joke. But funny comment

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1 point

-sent from my smartphone made by an equally shitty company.

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3 points

Look up fairphone.

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7 points

…who also ditched the 3.5mm jack.

Sorry. Couldn’t resist. Irks me way too much.

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-1 points

Hardly

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"This change is a result of the DMA’s requirements, and means that EU users will be confronted with a list of default browsers before they have the opportunity to understand the options available to them,” the company says. “The screen also interrupts EU users’ experience the first time they open Safari intending to navigate to a webpage.”

lol Apple is throwing a tantrum

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50 points

That’s just Apple’s default state.

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100 points

That was always a bullshit move by Apple and crippled the Firefox product in an unacceptable and cartel law questionable dimension. MS had a Monopoly on IE, by giving advantages binding it to the OS? Apple did the exact same thing on iOS with Safari.

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The problem is that the US doesn’t necessarily regulate anticompetitive behavior if the company has not achieved a monopoly. Microsoft pretty much had one at the time so they were exposed. Our regulatory regime is not designed to protect us from the tech oligopoly

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94 points

USB C, 3rd party app installing, free browser engine and easly removable batteries in 3 years. Iphone suddenly becomes an amazing option

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76 points

In eu. Its amazing what happens when legislation works.

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68 points

not amazing, only closer to what android already was for years

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*if you ignore the shitfest it is with mandating play store/play services, bricking phones, google screwing up Pixel updates, a fiasco of some sort with each Pixel iteration, Samsung literally adding shit to macro shots and calling it “AI”.

Android isn’t a silver bullet it’s made out to be.

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8 points

just get a pixel and put lineage on it, works perfectly and has none of these downsides

i have two ultimately minor complaints: no sd card slot and no headphone jack, the first isn’t a huge issue especially not for the average person and the latter being solved with an adapter, and also isn’t really a big issue since there’s more than enough battery that charging at the same time isn’t needed.

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2 points

Android is neither silver nor bullet, it’s pure gold next to the pile of poo with a chewed apple on top.

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2 points

well i never said Android was amazing either

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1 point

Android, not the pre-installed shit.

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5 points

We slowly fix problems below and above the OS. But there is very much left to do in the OS itself, like no access to drivers or any low-level interfaces.

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71 points

Ok, as an American web developer how do I test sites in Firefox on iOS?

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35 points

Pray it just works? Get consumer-friendly legislation to pass in the US somehow? Maybe a genie wish or an infinity gauntlet could be used for this purpose.

Apple has never been great at enabling developer testing. I certainly don’t see why they’d care if shit works on third party browsers. The more broken apps are just means the more users who will give up and use Safari.

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3 points

Apple’s Infinity Gauntlet will be $4999 and have a surprise battery backpack.

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2 points

Hmm, I wonder if we could get an EU law that requires enabling testing of third party apps globally, as anything else is suppressing competition.

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24 points

put a big banner for iOS users telling them that apple doesn’t let you test it, and that any complaints should be forwarded to apple

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23 points

Didn’t even think about that haha.

I guess the best you could realistically do would be to adhere to web standards (not Chrome standards) and use desktop Firefox or Firefox on Android for testing as they should be the same internally as the hypothetical iOS port.

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21 points

You don’t and that’s a feature for Apple.

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15 points

It’ll fall on deaf ears but complain as an ios dev to apple

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Same way you test on Safari if you don’t have a Mac, I guess. (i.e. not at all, or with the same rendering engine on a different device and hoping it is similar enough, or via a service like Browserstack.)

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I would subscribe to this question if I could.

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Interesting question. If a binary is available you can sideload already, you’d have to put the phone in Developer Mode and use either XCode or one of the 3rd party tools for macos or Windows to install it. Main question is how easy it’d be to find a trustable official Mozilla binary.

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