Honestly it's more or less usable already - maybe matter of display size compared to other comment. One thing that is killing the fun is that it's impossible to delete something. That or even undo button would make it enough to have fun with it.

Is it? A lot of parents uses Family Link and similar solutions, which are way more invasive than that.

Those are examples of software people choose to use voluntarily. The context here is government removing that choice and forcing you to use something under the conditions they set.

I'm sure there are parental controls for many that go too far or not far enough. A reminder of why the government trying to solve parenting problems is likely to fail like most of their other attempts, such as failing to stop people from growing plants.

I agree to some extent, but who should make parental controls reasonable then? What corporations deliver is both invasive and ineffective.

The market decides. Google and Apple both compete and there are other disruptors. I worked on an education product in 2018 and it would contact third-party services like Khan Academy or Duolingo. And if a child had not earned enough measurable results, they would be unable to access non-educational content.

Market is two companies who do not compete in this area at all, because Google literally earns on monetizing attention and Apple since Jobs era uses children as part of the strategy to lock you down in their ecosystem (see emails they had to make available to the court). There are zero serious disruptors and chance they'll appear gets smaller, because of push for device attestation being required for more and more apps.

Making children do an hour of Duolingo before they access open internet is hardly the goal. It's more about limiting their exposure to brain rot content. Existing tool would require you to block it domain-by-domain.

Honestly I can't see less invasive solution for that tool to work than page broadcasting age-rating with http response and device being aware it's owned by minor and refusing to display it.

The part where FAANG does usual Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, masses don't care/understand and we have yet another "sign in with... " that isn't open source nor zero-knowledge in practice and monetizes your every move. And probably at least one of the vendors has massive leak that shows half-assed or even flawed on purpose implementation.

Yeah, but then banks need to be pushed to support it. And while we're at it it would be good if people responsible for European eID also stopped recommending Google device attestation.

Doesn't matter if you have 500 microservices if only one or two take part in card authorization (as it should be if microservices were architected correctly).

There's ton of logic on non-critical path that can be extracted to other microservices and called asynchronously - settlements, refunds, rewards, all management and reporting functionalities - to name just a few.

Because someone managed to run LLM on an iPhone at unusable speed Apple won AI race? Yeah, sure.

whoa, save some disbelief for later, don't show it all at once.

After a few messages, the context will get large, and this will not work. Technically, this is a gimmick, but a cute one. It won't even keep 0.1/t after 10 messages.

It was added recently to Google dialer app. If you want to use external one or aren't on pixel which received this update then bad luck for you.

Ah, I see. So still a dick move, then, even if I never use it in the first place.

What's then left as Google's advantage? I'm really not interested in buying myself a cage, but if Google will make me choose between two cages then Apple has nicer one.

Google still doesn't make you pay s dollar to write an app on their architecture (only to have it hosted in their store).

you also don't need to pay apple for using xcode and building apps for ios either; the 99 dollars is for uploading to appstore or installing to devices for more than 7 days

Using xcode does require paying Apple, unless you've gotten your hands on a free copy of the OS and/or free Apple hardware somehow.

They could be, but they aren't. When they catch your political bias, they will push your flavor of propaganda to you as heavily as classical media.

You forgot to add that Ukrainian opposition leader supported suspension.