IIRC the issue was that the relay can also function as a mirror/archive of posts. That’s a lot of data and gets expensive.

Documented where? By who? I’d just like to know if there’s anyone, some influencer or whatever, spreading this.

I don’t get what you’re trying to say here. That’s not the legal situation in the EU (or even the UK). Are you saying that’s where the EU is headed?

Gating a change of AI assistant behind a dev mode would not be DMA compliant.

You see how delusional that sounds?

Not really. Different systems have different capabilities.

Apple seems to think that they have made Siri AI safe enough. We’ll see if that is true. Apple is sure taking a risk here.

If Siri AI is not safe, then the idea to make third party assistants safer would not work either (by the sound of it).

Sorry, your English isn’t always quite clear.

You’re saying that they will have to create that security layer that you call API, before releasing a modified Siri AI in the EU. Right? Which means that you don’t see either what Apple could have done to roll this out now in the EU.

Why would I make the case? That would surely be a huge waste of time. You’re not asking any questions. You don’t want to know, right?

But ok. If you want to share, I will read it. What did you make up in your mind about this?

Why do you believe that? Where did you “learn” that?

In your comment it is responsible for both locking down and preventing locking down.

As I wrote, it makes no sense.

MacOS doesn’t fall under the same DMA requirements, so that’s why it still gets Siri AI in the EU.

I’ve been wondering if this would be more dangerous than installing random apps. It might be. But they don’t let people install just anything on iPhones. “Proper” computers are traditionally more open.

If Apple needs 18 months to introduce a proposed solution then what they can do is they can release the new Siri in 18 months with the proposed solution implemented.

So you’re agreeing with me?

Sheesh. I don’t agree with the EU locking down Android. But I don’t see either how it makes sense to punch this huge security hole into Apple’s Walled Garden. Their customers expect, and pay for, a lot of hand-holding.

What risk?

That this is even a question, shows the problem with leaving it all to users.

We’ll have to wait and see how Google responds to these demands. Android has been traditionally more open, but has recently been closed down more; not least because of EU demands for more security. It will be interesting.

Unclear what Apple could even do here.

The obvious answer would be, let people take the risk if they so chose. But the EU also demands security, so that isn’t much of an option. It makes no sense.

Because parents vote?

Ok, yeah. Stupid question. I mean: In what way are they left, but labour isn’t?

In what way?

What would be a left-wing party in the UK?

So about the same as how Germans view the Nazis.

As a German, I don’t find this all that reassuring.

On second look:

Accusations against school monitors reported by parents across France include children being screamed at, pushed, having their hair pulled, being denied food, forced to eat until they vomited and being sexually assaulted or raped.

That’s actually believable. Untrained people lose their temper and assault kids, but there are only a few cases of rape.

Quick google says that France completely outlawed assault on children only in 2019, though schools had been instructed not to use such punishments in 1991. Systemic failures to correct the monitors seem unsurprising.