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AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

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1424 points moonleay | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 00:01 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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isoprophlex ◴[16 Nov 25 06:17 UTC] No.45943174[source]▶
From a bit further down the page

> Bluetooth DID (Device Identification) Hook > Turns out, if you change the manufacturerid to that of Apple, you get access to several special features!

I hope Apple gets slammed hard by some regulatory body. Apparently there's absolutely zero magic reasons why their airpods are unable to connect to non-Apple devices; pretend you're an iPhone and you're in.

EDIT: read "unable to connect" => "unable to expose advanced functionality", ofc they connect just fine

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isodev ◴[16 Nov 25 07:06 UTC] No.45943335[source]▶
They’re being slammed, the DMA is not going away. Just a few weeks ago, Apple had their latest court hearing.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251015-01.en.html

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wkat4242 ◴[17 Nov 25 08:43 UTC] No.45951880[source]▶
Well, the EU is trying to undermine its own GDPR now in an attempt to suck up to Trump :(

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882203

And DMA/DSA are also getting nerfed :(

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isodev ◴[17 Nov 25 12:04 UTC] No.45952876[source]▶
These are both very long-term games. I think preventing a trade war is definitely better on the short term so I'm not opposed to a softer flavour of these directives (it's not permanent after all, they can be adapted again). Than trying to push all the levers at the same time.
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1. wkat4242 ◴[17 Nov 25 13:49 UTC] No.45953517[source]▶
I don't agree there. These tariffs hurt the American people a lot more than they hurt us.

All this is pretty much inspired by the fears of the big car companies. But we're also buying a lot less American cars, Tesla for example has been decimated in Europe. And besides them there's only really Ford.

Besides Trump constantly changes the rules. For example with his 'trade deficit' he's only looking at goods, not services. When you consider the huge amount of money going to Microsoft, AWS, Google, there's not really any deficit. Trump just makes it all up as he goes along. You can't really respond seriously to that because you don't know what will happen tomorrow, he could change his mind again.