Another option would be to ship a feature phone, or a feature phone mode. So you know, your $1000 device can only make calls like most of us used phones for 20 years ago.
iOS 15 Humane - your phone is just a phone.
iOS 15 Humane
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's about having choice: Microsoft used to be quite good at making stuff usable but the underlying geekery was still there and could allow control to the max if you wanted it. It worked for mom & pops and techs alike but corporations new attitude of "We'll decide what's best and remove other options" is a bloody pain in the arse now. A particularly bad one is this insistence on not allowing me to permanently say "no…
> Microsoft used to be quite good at making stuff usable but the underlying geekery was still there and could allow control to the max if you wanted it. Windows 10 is the best Windows ever for the vast majority of people who use Windows. Same with Office. But you can still install whatever software you want on your Windows machine. Explain to me again how this is worse than what we used to have; where Microsoft have…
> Windows 10 is the best Windows ever for the vast majority of people who use Windows
Meanwhile I'm setting here just now, wasting hours hand-holding Windows10 because it's unable to install one of its own big feature updates, without any idea what was going wrong or where to start fixing the problem (because everything is so "user friendly").
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
And most kids given an Amiga or a 286 wouldn’t hack or code it - they’d just load up games.
Exactly this. My brother only played games on our C64 and Amiga, while I did nothing but program on it.
Games were in some way 99% of my use of the Apple IIc we had, which was my first computer. Original Bard's Tale in glorious green screen. Good times.
However, I also spent a lot of time painstakingly copying BASIC games, line by line from magazines, then figuring out how to expand upon them for additional features. Gaming was just the gateway drug.
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#244Is it possible to send a file via Bluetooth yet?
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#245I’d love a setting that would turn Instagrams search page into an input field - nothing else.
Every time I search I have to actively fight the temptation of food photos, bra-less dance videos, New Orleans architecture shots and whatever else the algorithm has learned will derail me.
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#246Doing any of this would set a precedent of Apple being able to change the functionality of an app and that is a precedent I don't want to see no matter how much I detest Facebook.
Also this power would bring the anti-trust hammer down so hard. Apple doesn't want this. They're working on tools to help you use your phone and other hardware more fully but also giving you data on usage and such so people can make up their own minds.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
How many smartphone users want to use interrupts, tinker with firmware settings, hack the port, and so on? Exactly.
The two things are not mutually exclusive. We can have hardware and software that's open to tinker with but still come ready to use out of the box.
Apple's job doesn't end when you open the box.
Unless you want a rootkit installed when you charge your phone with a public charger, it needs to be locked down. These restrictions are made for security and stability. If the average user doesn't need them, then don't enable them. Simple logic.
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#248The article wants Apple to save us from mindless browsing, but I see mindless browsing as unavoidable. Not because of some technical or legal thing, but because mindless browsing is a good thing. We need it. Mindless browsing is like a walk through the woods, just looking for what is happening, navigating a huge amount of information that is hardly important at the moment – oh, the cherry tree is blooming – but could…
The article offers you the choice to keep mindlessly browsing. What we have now it's not really an option. This would be like nutritional warnings for apps.
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#249The article wants Apple to save us from mindless browsing, but I see mindless browsing as unavoidable. Not because of some technical or legal thing, but because mindless browsing is a good thing. We need it. Mindless browsing is like a walk through the woods, just looking for what is happening, navigating a huge amount of information that is hardly important at the moment – oh, the cherry tree is blooming – but could…
This is why I enjoy hanging out in the tildeverse (https://tildeverse.org/). It's just a loose group of public boxes you can SSH into and chat on (some of them share mailing lists, but others don't). Some people make websites or games or tools or whatever. But none of it is organized. It's just people hanging out online.
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#250There are some nice ideas here, and perhaps some of them can even be realised by third party apps using the new Screen time developer APIs?
I don't think the "Persuasive Design" ideas are realistic though, not in the AppStore listing.