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Why don’t governments force parental responsibilities instead? We wouldn’t need all our data sitting there waiting for the next data breach.
Because the data is what they want, of course.
Because they don't actually care abt kids or the Epstein class would all be in jail and they wouldn't be facilitating the bombing of schools.
Yeah but then you'll have a green bubble
It's amazing how apple managed to get Americans took care about that. Meanwhile no one else cares. No one uses iMessage in Europe or Asia.
Nobody over the age of 12 cares in the US either
Maybe in your bubble.
Get a better bubble then
Imagine being so horrible at your job as a “journalist” or an editor or a publication that you would allow an article like this to be written under your name or publication without ever mentioning the fact that age verification is being pushed by governments, not phone and computer companies (they are trying to fight its implementation), and that it is equally coming to ALL platforms (yes, even Linux) – as required by law. If you want to fight this ridiculous age verification shit, petition (and vote out) your government. I would also argue that this author and publication should be permanently blacklisted for purposely publishing this obviously biased and misleading misinformation.
'Even Linux' you say? Absolutely wrong. Linux is the kernel, and this is what is allowing some Linux distros to flip the finger at this bullshit laws. As for android, yeah, 'tech-giant' controlled android OSs will have to comply, but alternatives like GrapheneOS won't, and most likely will not follow this rule. We have options, people that don't want to use them are welcome to keep doing as they're told. While I get that the options are 'comply or leave this market' for OS developers, whether small groups of nerds or trillion dollars behemoths, its still a choice, Apple made theirs.
Lol sure, like android is not gonna do the same
Easier to develop on Android devices than apple, so the more that switch, the larger the market and the more likely we are to get an android alternative to grow. Especially if an influx of apple users drive designs that are closer to apple, which would come at the expense of the android user experience. So as android moves to apple designs to appeal to he new Apple users, more android users will want a different experience.
With closed source tech getting worse, the masses will move away from it towards good willed opensource tech. Its inevitable.
except that they don't even know about the existence of the open tech, and that they are too complicaaaateeeed
bullshit. no they won't. stock android also gonna get age verification, and is considered bad by apple users, plus its a different ecosystem. stop sharing shit articles like this.
I might be a minority but the week liquid glass hit my phone I ordered a pixel, sold my iphone. iPad, apple watch, and air tags that weekend.
I don't know if that compares as one is a ui/function overhaul and the other is a data field for access to things.
We all know that every other manufacturer is gonna copy apple, exactly how basically overnight everyone switched to the flat icons of iOS 5
Example: Google has already redesigned the Google maps icon on Android to look more "glassy"
Is that so?
Yes. Here is how the icon was in August 2025, before the launch of apple liquid ass:
And Google home had a similar "glass" icon redesign
No idea what liquid glass is, but that's a heavy reaction.
What are you sporting now?
It’s a tweak to the UI. Not perfect, but I barely even notice a difference from old UI. People just like to complain.
The clear icons are ugly, but you don’t have to use them, so it doesn’t really matter.
In the apple basic apples they hid data that was normally visible and showed data that was irrelevant to the current function or plain redundant. Having to notifications un readable due to the transportnt was awful UX design.
Overall it comes off as if an intern was told to update the UX and had no per-review when deployed.
I loved my apple ecosystem system and wish I didn't change but the functions that have been slightly adjusted over 10+ years were turned upside down in one patch.
The complaint is justified as you look around online very few people outside of tech bloggers had anything positive to say about liquid glass.
It’s just the Aero glass from win 7 on an iPhone. I don’t mind it
GrapheneOS baby
Kicked my 15pro
Won't be any different. It's just a matter of time before Android goes the same
GrapheneOS is Android and declines to introduce that
Not sure when you'll be labelled a terrorist by using a privacy respecting OS though...
You're already on the list of future terrorists
Spanish police already profiles you for using grapheneOS
https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/
By the way our corporate dictatorships are speed-running totalitarianism, I'd say before the decade is done. I will choose to be an antifa terrorist before I accept fascism.
This is actually the least invasive form of age verification for Apple users. Apple already has a credit card on file for something like 90+% of the user base.
The alternative the political whore class are promoting is apps individually verifying with a multitude of ~~data brokers~~ "ID providers".
This is the illusion of choice under the surveillance capitalism of corporate dictatorships. Rather than regulate capitalists, the gov colludes with them to exploit and enslave consumers.
Folks, this is coming from your government. The phone makers want nothing to do with it and are actively fighting it in court as best they can. Switching between phone makers will not help, and is not the right place to put your energy. Address your concerns to your governments.
The phone makers want your data just as much as the government does. Data is money and power.
I call bullshit. Apple fans happily take anything Apple pushes down their throats. Even a $999 monitor stand or a $40 microfiber cloth.
