The exact wording is "end users established or located in the Union". I haven't looked up exactly what "established" is defined as in this case, but it may have broader implications than merely "living in the EU".
Maybe. I’m actually curious how they are going to gate it. Because I’m originally from the US, I have access to US things still (like Apple Cash). I’ve migrated my account years ago, and my phone’s region is set to my EU one.
There's some investigation as to how Apple uses countryd to determine what jurisdiction you're in.
>[countryd] combines multiple data such as current GPS location, country code from the Wi-Fi router, and information obtained from the SIM card to determine the country the user is in.
I read somewhere that Apple ID region will be part of it. Given they don't let you transfer your purchases from one Apple ID region to another, it'll be a nightmare for people living in the EU but using a US Apple ID account.
I feel like that’s a bit disingenuous to what actually happens when you change regions. As they explained to me before I switched:
1. All my content would stay in the old region. If I ever go back, I will still have all that content.
2. In my new region, content will be matched. If there is matching content, I will have a license for it. Otherwise, I will lose access to the content until I change my region back.
I accepted and that’s what happened. Some of my old playlists are full of content I can’t play here (for the better playlists, I just got the EU version of the song and deleted the US version). I still see most of my apps and movies/shows in library. Some apps that are US only stopped updating until they eventually stopped working.
Interesting. It's been a decade since I looked into this but unless I was just unlucky and no content matched, your second point is a big improvement since then.
I did this in 2018, and I had to do it over the phone because my account was bugged (stuck in an infinite loop, and even on the phone I was eventually handed off to someone relatively high-up in the corporate ladder, after six hours of being passed around to various departments) and I remember her mentioning that it was relatively new.
I am also not a lawyer, but asking if someone is an EU citizen is probably not acceptable in and of itself.
The DMA Chapter 1 Article 1 section 2 makes it clear that the requirement applies to services offered to users “established or located” in the EU.
You can be located in the EU without a residence permit or citizenship perfectly legally (and it’s not even clear whether being LEGALLY located or established in the EU is a requirement).
probably not, as they are not selling the emulator for profit.
If Nintendo were against ALL types of emulation they could (and would) have gone against all the other emulators that still exist. But they're mostly focused on shutting down for-profit emulators, so that's why they targeted yuzu.
Nintendo Defends Legal Action Against Dolphin, Says Emulators "Stifle Innovation"
and my favorite: "While we recognize the passion that players have for classic games, supporting emulation also supports the illegal piracy of our products. Wherever possible, Nintendo and its licensees attempt to find ways to bring legitimate classics to current systems (via Virtual Console titles, for example)."
They canceled their plans for client-side scanning. They do scan content on their servers. Therefore whether your data in iCloud Photos is scanned depends on whether Advanced Data Protection is enabled or not. It’s disabled by default. Enabling ADP will turn on E2E encryption and disable account access via iCloud.com.
What if the social pressure, is in part, a result of the better experience one gets with iMessage?
Photos, videos, group messaging are all a significantly better experience with iMessage in my experience. This is not to say that other apps don't offer a similar experience, you can achieve much of the same functionality on Telegram or WhatsApp. It's just that it's built into the phone.
Google might have achieved similar success with their own messaging platform had they'd not constantly thrown it under the bus and created a new one every month. Allo, Duo, Meet, Google+, Google Chat etc....
Mobile messaging should be either be interoperable or cross platform. And any messaging platform that is tied to one mobile operating system is user hostile.
I received my first piece of spam on iMessage last week (used it since 2011) and it was deleted instantly by Apple. I presume because they identified and removed the account's iMessage privileges.
Any messaging app that permits spam is user hostile. Spam takes up more of my time than I would ever want to give on Whatsapp/Messenger/Text. iMessage has prevented me from contacting precisely zero people. If I were to walk away from my iPhone I would lose nothing after exporting some messages.
The barrier to entry to other potential users of $100s is well worth it for me.
Yep, actionlint is great! I've used it successfully both to lint my own workflows, and to lint third-party workflows for (basic) security issues.
Unfortunately, it can't lint actions themselves, only workflows that call actions[1]. This is a substantial deficiency, especially for users (like me) who write and maintain a decent number of actions.
