After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors' - 9to5Mac
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The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other...

After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must ‘open up its gates to competitors’.::The iPhone 15 has USB-C, a move largely due to impending legislation in the European Union requiring smartphones and other…

  • TheGreenGolemEnglish
    474·
    9 months ago

    Also how about not forcing everybody to use Apple hardware to compile their apps? How about allowing xcode competititors and running on different hardware? Allowing to emulate macos/ios?
    Fuck apple.

    • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      9 months ago

      Also how about not forcing everybody to use Apple hardware to compile their apps?

      It’s a thing? Can’t you just gcc binary into existence?

      Fuck apple.

      Fuck Putin. Fuck apple too.

      • paperplane@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        In principle you can, the Mach-O format is openly documented and implemented in the major compilers. The issue is that you need a sysroot (aka SDK) of the frameworks and headers for your target OS, which in Apple’s case are proprietary and cannot be redistributed legally (you could probably rip them out of a macOS installation yourself though). For iOS apps you’d also need to sign the binaries and install the app to the device which is non-trivial to impossible to do on other platforms.

    • pandacoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      9 months ago

      Xcode is such hot garbage, the UX Is what you get when you like pretty and hate your programmer. (Honestly I hate most of Apple’s UX.)

      Also I compiled a C# app for osx-x64 yesterday on Linux (that works, though I have no idea of I could sign it properly to avoid Apple’s annoying side load interference), though maybe it included a binary originally compiled by Microsoft on Apple hardware.