Worn out by freedom

Imagine if Chrome could deplete your iPhone battery as fast as it does your MacBook battery. Imagine if you were one of the millions (zillions?) of people whose “incognito mode” browsing history was observed and stored by Google and deleted only after they lost a lawsuit. Imagine — and this takes a lot of imagination — if Google actually shipped a version of Chrome for iOS, only for the EU, that used its own battery-eating rendering engine instead of using the energy-efficient system version of WebKit.

I don’t understand why, while living in the USA, John Gruber is so energetically critical of the freedom that the EU will give its citizens to choose the default app on their personal devices (among the other valuable options).

I like my iPhone even for its security sense. But the OS’s security won’t change if I’m able to distinguish between dangerous and healthy apps. Even if it is not released by Apple. Those who make bad choices already exist, with or without the DMA.

This is frustrating to be a conservative and to see their certainties collapse a few feet from him. There is a risk that fall down his piece of floor too. But freedom doesn’t dead if it’s used with awareness. Freedom is freedom.

The choice is the advantage that EU gives us and, as every choice possibility, it’s scary. But, paraphrasing an old Italian politician, evidently wear out who doesn’t have it.