you're misunderstanding

Here's a real world example: Apple forced Patreon to give Apple 30% of the money that supporters wanted to give to artists, under threat of having their app removed entirely from Apple devices. https://news.patreon.com/artic...

Why is Apple entitled to anything here? Patreon doesn't want to use Apple's services but they have no choice.

If I sell any kind of product that is used on or supported by a mobile device, I really have no choice but to support Apple users. I can't be a bank or a retailer or a streaming provider or all kinds of things unless I support Apple users. Look at how many people swear they will never buy a GM automobile because they don't support Apple Carplay. So this isn't limited to developers, its Apple wedging themselves in between my customers and my business, whatever that business might be.
It's a new kind of problem that doesn't easily work in analogies or parallels to older scenarios. I'm glad that the EU and now the US to some degree are coming up with new solutions for it.

"Casting support is still available on ... TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page"

How many TVs do support Google Cast natively? I feel like all of ours do, but that's not a great sample size.

yes it makes me question the entire article

MAC addresses don't leave the local network when using TCP/IP. I don't understand this part of the article.

AI *is* replacing people. If you haven't seen this, you aren't paying attention or don't have insight into whats happening in businesses. Most people only work at one company so it's understandable. I consult for over 200 businesses per year and AI is absolutely replacing people right now.

in what legal way would a phone call be any different than an MFA challenge as far as impacting whether a phone could be subpoenaed? both involve another side with exhaustive logging. neither provide your employer with any access to your device. if you use your phone to place a call, you've exposed it just as much as using it to do MFA imho

it doesn't support "phish resistant" MFA with push notifications

we allow users to use their personal devices for MFA as a convenience, and we provide physical Yubikeys to users that prefer not to use their personal device for MFA. we do not provide phones or require anyone to use their own for anything. the vast majority of users opt to use their own device rather than carry the yubikey

yes this is the best technique we've found so far, but some users still rush to install a fake one or seem to struggle with basic reading comprehension.

the point is that this problem shouldn't exist in the first place

that would be nice but our corporate phone system doesn't do SMS and I'm not of fan of having the techs use their personal devices for work purposes. plus users tend to bother them directly if they know their cell #. we really aren't a bunch of idiots, this is just not a simple problem to solve

we are IT. we aren't involved in making job offers. we just get a ticket to onboard Bob Smith

difficult to send them anything until they are onboarded to our communications system, which requires the MFA app. Kind of chicken and egg situation

My IT team regularly has to help iPhone users install the Microsoft authenticator app for MFA as part of adding them to our email system. It is very difficult to walk someone through this over the phone as there are so many fake authenticator apps with very similar icons. They even work, they just charge a $10/month subscription for something the official MS app does for free.

AI didn't set the password to 123456 in mcdonalds hiring system. Is this award just going to anything that in any way remotely involved AI?