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2024-03-07 17:36 UTC
@elessar@social1.ortolo.eu see my edit; I meant to say "types of software" not specific software.
The ISP situation you're talking about isn't the correct comparison. A more appropriate comparison is the (very common) situation where a legislative body requires that a home be serviceable by more than one service provider, and if they're not, then the single service provider must allow another provider to piggyback on their infrastructure.
And in that scenario, yes, I consider that to be dictating what type of connectivity must be available to the consumer
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@elessar@social1.ortolo.eu 2024-03-07 18:04
@neatchee@urusai.social Okay, I get it. Well here, the good news is it will not require much code from Apple. The big part of it is the alternate software sources, and they are not for Apple to code. In fact, they are already available, but they required the user to crack a restriction developed by Apple to prevent that. This operation is called “jailbreaking”. All they have to do to comply, that it's, with regard to the software source part of the DMA, is to provide an official option to, well, jailbreak. Of course they can do something more specific, more refined or whatever, but basically, this is about removing an anti-feature, not adding a feature.