I have an incredibly well-built Game Boy emulator on my phone that I downloaded from the App Store - that is directly thanks to the DMA. That may sound minor to you but there are a lot of people that want to play old games or do other things Apple has blocked - the DMA has opened them up to us.

I apologize for my tone being rather short - I’m a big fan of your writing for decades, but your continued barbs and slams on the DMA have driven me crazy. My iOS experience in 2025 in the US is directly improved by the DMA forcing Apple’s hand on App Store policy and your stances feel backwards.

The EU dictating that Wi-Fi Aware 4 be a superset of AWDL means that Apple can’t make changes to break the compatibility Google built. They used existing code that was built by the open source community to talk to AWDL, but they felt safe shipping it because of the EU mandate backing them up.

Just because the current implementation is built on AWDL doesn’t mean this coming to market isn’t directly based on Wi-Fi Aware 4.0 being required by the EU. AirDrop on 26 and later is built on Wi-Fi Aware, but it will need to remain compatible with AWDL for a long time for backwards support.

Here’s an even more in-depth that goes into the back and forth between Apple and the EU on the change: www.ditto.com/blog/cross-p...

I’m sure you will argue that they just hadn’t gotten around to supporting it, but seeing as Google supported it 7 years ago in Android 8, feels like Apple should have had enough time to get things done on their end sooner, especially since the standard is largely based on their protocol.

Here’s an article from Ars that goes into the details - the EU forced Apple to adopt Wi-Fi Aware, the open version of the AWDL protocol AirDrop and other Continuity features were built off, which Apple actually helped build but has not adopted until forced. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Subway surfing for freedom 🫡

I knew Bari would screw things up, but this is an impressive pace for complete and utter self-immolation

Gentle reminder that Kirk would approve of his fate.

There was a school shooting in Colorado today. Why isn't that being talked about!?

Just wear a newsie hat and the IDF will send a drone your way in no time at all, can’t let a single journalist live

The first speculative feature he’s announced that I am extremely excited for, maybe he’ll actually ship that unlike FSD

As the wizard said, “That shit looks fucked up.”

5/ Trump knows that he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by using spending and taxation in the same way.

He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.

My company refused to let us work from home until an NYT article was published saying no one could. The very next morning I suddenly got approved for WFH. Public shame is the only thing that these big corporations understand sometimes.

Unfortunately, I know IBMers who would tell you that Big Blue stopped following that policy about 20 years after that slide was made.