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@brucelawson@vivaldi.net

Web standards a11y lovegod/ consultant FOR RENT. Musician. Woke atheist libtard, least spiritual person in the universe. Multiple Sclerosis owner. Pun lover. Hootie Tootie Disco Cutie. Birmingham, UK. He/ him. Personal views. RT≠+1. https://www.brucelawson.co.uk

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EU opens DMA investigations of Apple, Meta, Google https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/eu-opens-dma-investigations/ I wote a thing, with videos of Apple's total evasion and what seemed to me to be disdain bordering on contempt for the developers who had assembled for their DMA compliance workshop at EU last week.

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CSS People... am I making it up, or have I seen a thing recently with modern techniques that allow you to make animatable background gradients of a sort where you have heavily blurred blobs wandering around, that's actually performant and not a banded mess?

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@mattwilcox I have no idea, but you've weirdly piqued my interest!

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EU opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689 "Today, the Commission has opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into Alphabet's rules on steering in Google Play and self-preferencing on Google Search, Apple's rules on steering in the App Store and the choice screen for Safari and Meta's “pay or consent model”.

The Commission suspects that the measures put in place by these gatekeepers fall short of effective compliance of their obligations under the DMA."

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It would have been my grandad's 100th birthday today. He was highly decorated in the War. My grandma always says it was all the tinsel and bunting on his helmet that got him killed on the first day.

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@ppatel Happy hundredth!

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Apple’s new Core Technology Fee is a Core Technology Fleece https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/apples-new-core-technology-fee-is-a-core-technology-fleece/

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Inclusive Sans is a text font designed for accessibility and readability https://www.oliviaking.com/inclusive-sans

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Nike replaces Three Lions on England kit with three pink flamingos.
https://newsthump.com/2024/03/22/nike-replaces-three-lions-on-england-kit-with-three-pink-flamingos/ < You couldn't make it up!

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UNITED STATES v. APPLE, INC, filed today https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68362334/1/united-states-v-apple-inc/

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“Apple has gone from revolutionising the smartphone market to stalling its advancement” - US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-68629402?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=65fc51c1b26acd1fbf32f684%26Apple%20%27stalling%20smartphone%20advancement%27%262024-03-21T15%3A31%3A13.230Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:20d69bca-724c-4540-adc3-083bfd758484&pinned_post_asset_id=65fc51c1b26acd1fbf32f684&pinned_post_type=share

brucelawson,
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US Department of Justice files Antitrust lawsuit Against Apple; the dominos are beginning to fall in favour of a fairer, better Open Web! https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/us-doj-files-apple-antitrust-case/

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I'm listening to Google's DMA compliance workshop. A clear swipe at Apple from them: we don't see it as security versus compliance; it's about complying while keeping the user secure.

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Oh blimey

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Happy Vernal Equinox to all those who vern. I'm just back from stonehenge where we daubed each other's nude bodies and engaged in a night-long, sweaty ancient fertility rite full of grunting and pain, called "npm install"

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I'm at an EU workshop for Apple to discuss and justify its DMA compliance plans. They've been forced into 3 huge u-turns by EU (killing PWAs, removing Epic Games' developer licenses, sideloading) so I'm interested to see their demeanour. Will it be humility, or the usual 'fuck you, we're Apple'? There are people from EU companies that Apple blithely planned to bankrupt by sneakily removing PWAs here. And regulators have human feelings too; no-one like "fuck you". I'll be here all day (try the baguettes!)

brucelawson,
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For the 2nd time, Apple has warned of the dangers of allowing any developer to access any and all aspects of iOS and the user's data.

No-one at all is suggesting this or asking for it.

brucelawson,
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@Edent What better way to spend a day's annual leave, eh?

brucelawson,
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@Edent Oh, ta - but I didn't go to Belgium; attending remotely

brucelawson,
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Coffee break now. The mood in the room turned notably darker during that session, with people pushing against the Apple lawyers' repeated dodging of questions and their insistence that the 3rd party vendor contract is anything other than preposterous obstacles. (More on this excitng work of absurdist fiction: https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-review-apple-dma-compliance-for-web/#apple%E2%80%99s-new-contract-for-browsers-that-wish-to-use-their-own-engine)

brucelawson,
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@matt Or Apple could compete and make webkit so great people want to use it (as on Mac). If anyone has marketing clout, engineering nouse and brand loyalty to compete with Google, Apple can.

brucelawson,
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The last section is on data-related DMA provisions, so not something I know much about. Apple kicked off with the laudable statement that "privacy is a human right". (unless you live in China, of course.)

brucelawson,
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We asked Apple why their compliance report is only 12 pages (Microsoft was 421pp, Google's was 221pp). They replied that it's very clear and everyone understands what they're doing to comply with DMA.

I'm sure PWA owners, devs and users in the EU are enormously grateful for Apple's clarity over the last few weeks on what they're doing to comply with the DMA.

brucelawson,
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And that's a wrap for the Apple one. Chair noted that they promised to come back with more answers and some Qs were not, ahem, fully answered. It's the beginning of a process; EU facilitated, but did not ask questions (that's later). Other gatekeepers get to sit in the Chair of Interrogation throughout the week. Phew. Over and out, Fam. xx

brucelawson,
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@matt But they've set out their stall on privacy and security, and frequently stated that WebKit is the safest and most secure engine. @plankton

brucelawson,
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An interesting article about how yesterday's DMA meeting was full of "Complaining Competitors" (which is untrue; we are web developers, not megacorps) from the "Center for European Policy Analysis", whose 2024 "supporters" include Amazon, Google, Meta … and Apple. https://cepa.org/article/europes-dma-a-chorus-of-complaining-competitors/

brucelawson,
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@craiggrannell I'd have to dig into the transcript but it was something about how the pesky EU stop them charging 30% for every app (b/c now there will be alternative app stores) this fee is a way to ensure Apple is compensated for all the work it does building a brilliant developer platform. Apple staff need to eat. And some of them have children. Will no-one think of the children?!?

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