“Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published a headline today that translates to “‘the bill that could ban the iPhone in Italy,'” Joe Rossignol reports for MacRumors. “”
“The bill in question, Senate Act 2484, is aimed at ensuring Italians have open access to software, content, and services,” Rossignol reports. “The portion of the bill potentially relevant to Apple essentially says that users should have the right to download any software, whether proprietary or open source, on any platform.”
“The bill was introduced last year by Stefano Quintarelli, an Italian entrepreneur and member of the Scelta Civica political party in Italy,” Rossignol reports. “The bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in July 2016, and it now must be approved by the Senate of the Republic, within Italy’s parliamentary government.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: This bill is ignorant of the specific technologies involved and of technology in general. Apple’s iPhone won’t be banned in Italy.
Italy has much, much bigger problems than a proprietary App Store…they better get the hell out of the EU as fast as they can.
Hey bot. Here’s that luggage tag I spoke about:
sorry, I ignore most of your drivel…musta missed that one.
You did. Here is the other side.
Frankly, I’ve lost interest.
We’ve long since lost interest in you, Belligerent Asswipe.
you sure are mean-spirited, Cocoa Boy.
I certainly have lost all interest in you the moment you called me a “Kentucky Fried Obama impersonator”. You belong in the Jim Crow, blackface, Amos n’ Andy era. I don’t know why racism is allowed in the 21st century…oh wait, Donald Trump, never mind then.
I said no such thing, but I did label you a racist because you are.
however, you did dub me “silly white boy.” I would think you would take umbrage if I called you a “silly black girl.”
wouldn’t you?
In what ways am I racist? I only speak the truth. And it also sounds like you have a shot memory as you called me that way back in 2014. Said I sounded unintelligent. Is it because I’m black?
You are unintelligent, not because you are black or because you are female…but because you have thrown away your self-esteem and honor by blaming “the slavery of our people!” for your own stupidity.
What, pray tell, is racist about that? You’re silly, you’re white, and you’re a boy. I’m not wrong in stating the truth of the matter.
You are a “professional victim”, the usual denizen of The Plantation Party.
Aww man bot. I would think that first hand stories about unboxing an Apple Lisa to set up on the display floor would be interesting. Trying to grasp the desktop concept, waiting for things to load…. or maybe coming in one monday and Mike says we got a new computer. An Apple III. Came dead so I did the Sol Drop Test and it started up. Sold one later that morning.
Or, since you are fixated on my plantation mentality for some doG awful reason there is this. Ruth. All long dresses and peasant blouses. Oh yeah. combat boots too. All natural all over. We’d spend a few days at my second floor victorian place in Eureka… a few days at her cabin overlooking big lagoon, north of Trinidad, WA. A drafty cabin, cold with northwest nights, crisp and cold. It was a drafty cabin too. I learned to be natural then. Eating granola bars and checking mucus at 4:30 in the morning for birth control. Do a search for big lagoon. Look at the images. The ones from the north looking south… that was my view…
ooops.. looks like I got distracted.
Computer stories. This is a computer site.
Aww man bot. I would think that first hand stories about unboxing an Apple Lisa to set up on the display floor would be interesting. Trying to grasp the desktop concept, waiting for things to load…. or maybe coming in one monday and Mike says we got a new computer. An Apple III. Came dead so I did the Sol Drop Test and it started up. Sold one later that morning.
Or, since you are fixated on my plantation mentality for some doG awful reason there is this. Ruth. All long dresses and peasant blouses. Oh yeah. combat boots too. All natural all over. We’d spend a few days at my second floor victorian place in Eureka… a few days at her cabin overlooking big lagoon, north of Trinidad, WA. A drafty cabin, cold with northwest nights, crisp and cold. It was a drafty cabin too. I learned to be natural then. Eating granola bars and checking mucus at 4:30 in the morning for birth control. Do a search for big lagoon. Look at the images. The ones from the north looking south… that was my view…
ooops.. looks like I got distracted.
Computer stories. This is a computer site.
dammit.
DOH!
Apple could “easily” get around this by letting users sideload apps via Xcode and a developer’s account. That’d ensure the code being loaded is open and available for scrutiny, and limits the vector for malware to those with some level of technical ability (or someone that provides such services, but shady ones can still be traced through the signed developer certificate).
They already did exactly this a couple years ago, but then they greatly reduced the time that the sideloaded app would work for, from a year to a mere 7 days.
Nice little Apple store you got there, Tim. Sure hate to see it get burned down, ya know. We could make sure that doesn’t happen.
Hmmm….
Move to Italy, or jailbreak…?
Gentiloni instead of Trump? Ciao fratelli!
C’è ‘na luna mezz’u mare….
Italy might ban the iPhone because of silly BS that doesn’t matter? Looks like they will be stuck with Android then. Or maybe the Italians can make their own OS. Why isn’t their any major OS from countries that are not America?
LINUX, invented in Finland, owns half of all data centers and is the basis of Android. Think before you make a fool out of yourself.
I’m pretty sure that Linux was built off of UNIX, which was created in the 1970s by ATT, which is an American company. Later on, California computer scientist and Free Software advocate Richard Stallman came up with GNU. Not to mention that Linus Torvalds is a naturalized American. The framework for GNU/Linux was built in the US, and was later worked on in Finland. YOU are the one who should get educated.
Linux was an evolution of Minix, a Unix-like OS with Posix compliance. Both are clean code, meaning no proprietary Unix code was actually used.
They have one, it leaks oil…
lol
If such an OS were invented in Italy, it would surely be plagued by spaghetti code.
…and could only be installed on an iMacaroni Pro.
I apologize, don’t shoot, I’m only the piano player. 🙂
I’d like to point out that the “politician”, Stefano Quintarelli, is really a technologist person, and was instrumental to bring Internet to Italy in the very early 1990′. He is not someone who is “ignorant”: it is rather you, who wrote that phrase, that are ignorant of who he is.
Of course he’s a ‘open software’ person, a position we do not all agree with (myself included).
But I cannot accept an insult done without first trying to dig down a bit.
You’re new here, aren’t you?
the dude’s ignorant in the sense of ‘common sense’ because ‘open’ as regards to phones often results in shit like malware , privacy concerns etc.
If people want ‘open’ why don’t they get the hundreds of android devices? Plenty of choice.
surely ONE ( supposedly) ‘closed’ system which is curated and more safe against malware actually BROADENS the options?
If ALL were open then they’ll just be SAME as Shiteous malware ridden android (i.e if Apple us forced to join them it actually REDUCES choice).
I say iPhone is ‘ supposedly’ closed as it is actually open to all kinds of stuff (devices to be linked to it), software etc. Except Apple supervises it all and has responsibility
Not to mention if Apple has to deal with all the idiots ignorantly downloading virus ridden, crappy ‘open’ etc software Apple would have to deal with complaints etc (” the iPhone is Broke”) etc — RAISING the COSTS for Apple which would be PASSED DOWN TO THE REST OF US.
Google gives Android FREELY to avoid having legal issues when crap happens to Android on Phones . (They then make money by spying and selling info to advertisers via Android search , maps etc. )
Recently I had a bunch of suspicious emails from my wife’s friend, then we found out her ANDROID phone had been hacked and she lost a lot of her personal info. If we had opened her email’s we would have had our computers infected … We DON”T NEED ‘OPEN” CROCK for iPhones…
Sorry, but this is clear evidence that Stefano Quintarelli is a TechTard, plain and simple. IOW: ‘ignorant’ of the effect of what he has proposed.
Please iCal me! If this bill is passed, there will be hell to pay. Apple got it right. Quintarelli got it wrong.
iCal? That’s a very ironic verb to use in this context.
It only makes sense to Gemini and Sagittarii. 😉
This is typical of the way technology is going in the EU ironically its own version of a walled garden but this one is potentially very debilitating and damaging to what is already a continent falling behind the world leaders in cutting edge technology and innovation.
I call this a WoNDeRFuL example of applied TechTardiness. You don’t understand computer security? So be sure to disable it and experience full throttled INsecurity.
And we shall laugh, sadly, at you.
Honest officer! I added the closing italics tag! At least I meant to! Sorry. 🙁
What a dumb article. It looks to me like this biill would ban ALL Android phones as well since they can’t run iOS apps.
*There’s* the contradiction I was waiting for someone to point out.
I suppose their answer might be that they *can* download them; they just won’t run. But still, I like your argument!
Unlikely. If you read the source article the bill appears to have a clause specifying:”Users have the right to, in an appropriate format to the required technology platform […] use fair and non-discriminatory software, proprietary or open source […] content and services of their choice.” I take this to mean that Android is ‘safe’ from the bill since it appears to target the ability to obtain software that is compatible for your device from ‘other’ sources/App stores.
Why does every change seem to target Apple directly? Italy would prefer to have a fragmented, relatively insecure platform like Android, so they would try to ban iOS. Exactly who is asking for this? The average smartphone user in Italy? Because Apple is vetting the apps in the App Store, I would think those apps would be much safer for the average consumer to use. There must be some Italian consumers who would prefer a “walled garden” when it comes to smartphone security.
The Italians (or just Europeans in general) can make their own operating systems if they hate our inventions so much. After all we did for their continent during the World
Wars, and this is how they treat us.
If they think American boys are gonna die to defend them from The Fourth Reich, aka the EU, and their tools, the Muslim invaders, again…
they are fucking wrong.
As a European I do have to point out that a lot of tech comes from here – just as much as the rest of the world. The TV, telephone and Microchip were invented where I come from. Oh and ARM and the GPU IP that the iPhone uses? I’m not being anti-American but please realise the big guys aquire lots and lots of Euro companies, euro IP and hire Euro personal. Think Jony Ive for example? Please wake up and stop being so ignorant that America invents everything!
So sorry. We have long been conditioned to think precisely that, — because for well over a hundred years many of America’s brightest and most consequential scientists were either driven out of Europe, or fled lassitude and neglect by its decadent aristocracies. Italians Guglielmo Marconi and Enrico Fermi spring to mind. They came up with radio and atomic power. We also enjoyed the talents of Hungarians John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, and Edward Teller. Poland contributed Stanislaus Ulam, Austria Kurt Gödel, and Germany blessed us with Charles Steinmetz, Emmy Noether and Albert Einstein. Nicola Tesla, formerly of Serbia, might have been our very brightest immigrant.
Some of today’s tech does come out of Europe – the LHC is impressive, and you lot did manage to land on a comet. It’s too bad you wasted a hundred years on military adventures and fox-hunting.
And don’t forget Russell Brand invented comedy, I read somewhere.
But…but…but…
How would that make your team money?
Why does every change seem to target Apple directly?
It’s $$$$$.
And I find it to be hilarious misdirected anger at Corporatocracy. There are hundreds of self-destructive, customer HATING, economy destroying companies out there in the world, and dumbasses target Apple, the exact opposite of all that. You can’t stop stupid.
Hopefully distinct from cynical? 😉
THAT’S
JUST
GREAT
ITALY
Now you get the chance to:
A) Enjoy Security HELL
OR
B) Do WITHOUT the iPhone
I’d choose NEITHER if I were you.
You talk too much.
Actually, I’m well known for NOT talking too much. Instead, I typically take mass quantities of tech complexity and distill it down to focal points and action points. IOW: You’re from the wrong side of the Currie tracks. That’s not your fault.
Hey, if you need to spend more time than rest of us to absorb technical content, well that’s just fine. If we both ran a marathon I wouldn’t expect us both to cross the finish line at the same time. However if I did win, I wouldn’t feel the need to go on and on and on and on about it like you do.
Try and balance it all out maybe?
Balance. Right. Something the rest of the MDN audience practises so diligently. 😵 Going on and on and on? Never happen with our model commenters, who are the souls of brevity. 😴
No thank you.
Okay so this guy defo has the latest version of Flash Player on his browsers…
What really annoyed me about this is that Apple opened an iOS Dev Academy in Naples, which is one of the most dangerous cities in Europe…and this is how Italy want to thank them for that?
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/10/apple-opens-first-ios-developer-academy-in-naples/
Oh good. Now can they make it a law we can install games like Crysis, Halo (latest versions) etc. on our Macs?