Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals
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The technology giant says it could remove services such as FaceTime from the UK over potential changes

how do you reckon?

only time they have been on the consumer’s side was with regards to privacy, refusing to comply with the FBI and now this.

everything else they are pretty anti-consumer, off the top of my head

  • first to remove jack 3.5 (even though I don’t really care about this, others do.)
  • sticking to shitty lightning cable so they can sell overpriced cables
  • the charger thing with the EU
  • worst of all entirely against right to repair
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To be fair, those first three points fall squarely under that “charging cable/accessory situations” exception. With Apple, it turns out that’s a pretty broad exception.

Honestly modern phones not having 3.5mm doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the loss of micro SD

I’m never getting a phone without a micro SD port

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