⚡️Apple Begrudgingly Takes The Smallest Step Towards Freedom of Apps
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Many of you know that's theres no way to get alternative apps on iPhones, users are locked into Apples ecosystem.

Last week, Apple, in addition to major tech companies operating in the EU, had to begin complying with the EU Digital Markets Act.

These companies were designated 'gatekeepers' or important technology services that serve as gateways between users and businesses.

The EU designated 6 Gatekeepers last September : Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, Bytedance, Amazon, Apple - who all met qualitative measures of userbase and revenue.

Now Apple has less than six months to comply with the DMA and in classic Apple fashion they have done their best to maintain their walled garden.

- only opening up third-party application access inside of the EU, not extending it to other countries
- limiting web distribution to companies that have sold more than 1 million app downloads per year for the past two years.
- charging developers to host their app outside of the Apple App Store

Of course this means that Epic games, an app developer that sued Apple for exactly this right cannot have web distribution, because it was banned off of the app store this past year. Any apps that want to have web distribution need to have 1M downloads a year and be in good standing with Apple.

As you can see, it practically changes nothing in the Apple ecosystem although I hope to be proven wrong.

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⚡️Transferring Email Identities with ImapSync
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As part of my name change to Hakeem I've had to move 5GBs of email from my old inbox to to a new one. All this to change an email address but keep my emails.

Thankfully, software like imapsync makes it easy. Shout out to the legend Gilles Lamiral from France who developed the software and licensed it under the most software 'free' license that I know of.

"0 No limits to do anything with this work and this license.
1 GOTO 0"

His software also works with transferring Gmail and Office365 accounts - although there are some caveats as these big tech services make it a hell to get your data off of them.

There's also a web interface for the service that he runs completely for free. Please consider donating or getting support time.

With around 75K emails in my inbox, this whole process should take around 8 hours... - I should really get into the habit of cleaning it more often.

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