Notices by Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social), page 2

"For future functionalities of or updates to the AirDrop feature, Apple shall make them available to third parties no later than at the time they are made available to any Apple connected physical device.”

"Apple shall provide a protocol specification that gives third parties all information required to integrate, access, and control the AirDrop protocol within an application or service (including as part of the operating system) running on a third-party connected physical device in order to allow these applications and services to send files to, and receive files from, an iOS device.”

"Apple shall not impose any contractual or commercial restrictions that would be opaque, unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory towards third parties or otherwise defeat the purpose of enabling effective interoperability. In particular, Apple shall not restrict business users, directly or indirectly, to make use of any interoperability solution in their existing apps via an automatic update.”

EC having to legislate around Apple's poison pills, which is wild. Apple is that untrustworthy

"Apple shall not impose any restrictions on the type or use case of the software application and connected physical device that can access or makeuse of the features listed in this Document.

Apple shall not undermine effective interoperability with the 11 features set out in this Document by behaviour of a technical nature. In particular, Apple shall actively take all the necessary actions to allow effective interoperability with these features.”

"For the purpose of ensuring that effective interoperability continues in the future, third parties must also have access to any future feature functionalities and updates of the media casting feature insofar and as soon as they are available to Apple’s AirPlay. For example, if Apple updates AirPlay to stream video at higher resolution, or to allow end users to initiate screen mirroring via an AI assistant, these updates should be made available to third parties as well.”

Again 2025 deadline

It's always amusing when detractors cry that the EC’s policy-makers know nothing about technology, but even a casual reading through their proposals and specs would tell you they have extensive amounts of input from subject matter experts

(From the case PDFs at https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/dma100204-consultation-proposed-measures-requesting-interoperability-apples-ios-and-ipados-operating_en, a separate set of studies/proposals on Apple's interoperability mechanisms)

My takeaways from the proposal: the EC is prepared to go into detail on specific features, mandate various avenues of interoperability and APIs required, ensure that Apple can't make them burdensome in implementation or by policy, set a concrete timeframe for the changes to be made (i.e. by next release of iOS), and ensure that Apple can't pull the rug out from under these APIs in the future or self-preference for new or unannounced devices. All the proposals are great, necessary changes

This proposal effectively states that Apple should provide private headers to internal frameworks on request, and developers should subsequently decide whether they need to submit an interoperability request to make the frameworks or APIs public

The European Commission is going through Apple’s OSes feature by feature, with the help of interested parties and industry collaboration, and deciding where the API lines should be drawn. It’s absolutely fascinating.

And remember, Apple brought all of this on itself through its years of misconduct and inability to follow the law.

Don't miss the 30 pages of proposed specs in the PDFs here (summarized in screenshots here; no alt-text, follow through to original link): https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/dma100203-consultation-proposed-measures-interoperability-between-apples-ios-operating-system-and_en

When real news is hidden behind subscriptions, and fake news is freely available, it's no wonder the world is where it is. Capitalism at work

The Battlestar Galactica reboot commenced 21 years ago? Excuse me while I turn to dust… 💀

@Mastodon Europe came back? *yoink!*

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura /Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15 *Pro* or higher/. It's not coming to older or slower devices

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura TL;DR the outlet that doesn’t take unattributed ‘on background’ information from Apple says it’s not fixed, and the news outlets that do take it say there’s a new display controller that fixes it. Draw your own conclusions

I would honestly fully support Apple splitting the iPad mini into two separate lines — remove some stuff to make the mini even cheaper than it is today, but have an iPad Pro 8.3-inch (M4) with everything the bigger models have. Give it that 5.1mm OLED design to make it the ultimate notepad/sketchpad

iPad mini battery life is pretty miserable as-is, without Stage Manager or ProMotion or Face ID. While I would love to see an M-series iPad mini Pro, with all the bells and whistles, I'm not convinced it can be done to that level with current battery technology. Not to mention the slower NAND they use for the mini actually has a noticeable impact in the sluggishness of the UI. I think a decked-out iPad mini would have to be a different product entirely — but I'd buy one for sure

Since this went pretty wide, here’s some more Leica for good measure, including tiny baby era

Leica’s #aurora photo bomb may just be the best picture I’ll ever take

‘Where are all the Vision Pro apps?’ begins and ends with Apple. Is this a computer, or is it a fancy Apple TV for rich people? Where is Pages and Numbers? Swift Playgrounds? Final Cut, Logic? iMovie? Native ports of Maps? Reminders? Calendar? Podcasts? Books? Most of these were glaring omissions /at launch/, but we’re fast approaching a year on (and we're well over a year since announcement) and there’s just been nothing.

This absolutely feels like Windows Phone/Windows 8 all over again

Great review of the iPhone camera by @becca.farsace, and harsh words for the Camera Control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2LFBBxufDw