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Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)

Spare a thought for poor Apple, whose Xmas has been ruined by beastly orgs making "interoperability requests" through Apple's own "interoperability request form". I've no love for Meta, but Fruit Co. (being a stranger to the concept of fair competition) hasn't understood that the point is to design and document APIs that allow interoperability, rather than grudgingly allow supplicants to submit a form into a black hole. Thoughts and prayers.
reuters.com/technology/apple-s

“What Apple is actually saying is they don’t believe in interoperability. Every time Apple is called out for its anticompetitive behavior, they defend themselves on privacy grounds that have no basis in reality.” theverge.com/2024/12/19/243248

The Verge · Apple pushed hard by EU to make iOS and iPadOS more interoperable
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Jess Weatherbed

@brucelawson sounds like apple needs to rearchitect if their claims are true; same as when Microsoft had to make ie not integrated into the os.

Your hostile design isn't a free pass to be a bad actor.

@brucelawson Where is this form? I would like to send them a request, too.

@prushforth I think if you develop products available in EU you can request interoperability, but good luck *testing* if you're not physically in EU. I haven't heard anything back from Apple r/e the interop requests Vivaldi submitted.