The European Union’s Digital Markets Act keeps delivering for EU citizens.
Apple is working on a new feature that will support cross-device copy and paste between iOS devices and Windows PCs.
Microsoft asked for the feature using Apple’s EU interoperability request system for developers, which Apple implemented to comply with the Digital Markets Act. Apple began evaluating the request in March, and on June 26, proposed a project plan.
↫ Juli Clover at MacRumors
According to Apple, this minor feature is going to cost Apple “significant engineering effort”; I’d estimate it’ll cost them about one to two golden statues.
I’m with apple on this one, microsoft is not doing the same for android or sailfish or symbian or palmos, why should they get preferential treatment? If microsoft does it for SteamOS and SailfishOS as well as perhaps Haiku and ArcaOS it might be a more fair argument.
Microsoft is a gatekeeper too when it comes to Windows. People can make similar demands.
Even if you are on Apple side you will still likely find the feature useful. And besides it’s not like Apple, when it will suit them, they won’t do the same thing, that is to use EU regulation the get their way, against some other monopoly that would otherwise refuse to do so, be interoperable. The only downside being on why wasn’t this done much sooner, around 20 to 30 years back already. Wasted decades.
Unless you own Apple stock, that is not the the rational stance to take. The rational stance is not to be on Apple’s side, nor to be on Microsoft’s side, it is to be on your own side as the consumer. and demand what is best for you as the consumer. Neither Apple, nor Microsoft, or any other corporation will ever reward you in any way for being on their side.
In this case, more interoperability is something that benefits you and every other consumer.
Well, Apple can always outsource it to KDE Connect engineers, if it proves to be too much of a task for their own engineers.
I imagine that, the first iPhone had no “copy and paste” at all, too complicated for Apple that had it on original 68k Macintosh though.
I wonder what “Liquid glass” required them as “significant engineering effort”, something that only stirred UX controversies.
its certainly extra steps, but i achieve this now using Signal (with ios and windows clients) as it has a “notes to
self” chat so it can also act as a clipboard history as well.