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I would really love an extension like AMP Redirect on my iPhone. AMP pages are almost completely unusable on my phone. Additionally, an Old Reddit Redirect clone for Safari would be a huge QOL upgrade too.
Released today, fully open source as well. https://apps.apple.com/app/amplosion-redirect-amp-links/id15...
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I was running the betas for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS since they were released. The iOS and iPadOS betas were buggy, but I expected some problems.
Looks like it was available via beta.icloud.com (With an iCloud+ subscription): https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/25/icloud-custom-email-dom...
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Can’t believe more people aren’t talking about this - it’s huge for cross-platform games that can run at much higher performance, and the best part - no 30% fees from the walled garden App Store when you deliver via a webpage!
The go-to-market for games without an app store (ios or android) is so bad that most game devs were rather get 70% of something rather than 100% of almost nothing... and that's probably why more people aren't talking about it. It'll make it easier to make cool sites, but I wouldn't expect any change in the games landscape. Plus it really looks like the 30% isn't here to stay.
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Try 1Blocker. https://1blocker.com/
Supplement it with NextDNS, too, which also blocks most tracking inside of apps.
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> How Apple distributes their core apps (Safari, Mail, etc) is orthogonal to how they are implemented, secured, ring levels, sandboxing, etc. These are separate considerations. Strongly disagree. If Apple distributed their apps as normal apps, they'd have normal privileges and when exploits are found the scope would be limited to that app domain. Instead, what we have seen is that Apple's apps act like system service…
I understand that you disagree, however your disagreement seems to be based upon a pretty significant misunderstanding/lack of knowledge both about these apps and their privileges.
Yet you've been able to present none. According to your claims the zero-click escape that caussed the critical 4.8 security update to be released in the last two weeks isn't possible, and yet it happened.
So please, by all means, explain why Apple's apps should be structured like this:
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/01/remote-iphone...
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-look-at-ime...
Instead of being normal apps with self-contained app domains that would also limit any exploitation.
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If in October 2013 you bought a just released Google Nexus 5, you would have had official updates until December 2016. At the end of support, you could have then bought the recent Google Pixel (1). And you would have had official updates until December 2019. A little over 6 years out of two devices is as good as it gets on Android, at least it's as good as it got in the mid-late 2010s. If in October 2013 you bought a…
If you bought a Nexus 5X or 6P, your device eventually bricked itself due to overheating literally melting the solder connections between the CPU and mainboard. Software support isn't the only thing Android vendors are skimping out on.
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Agree on this and multi-stop routes. I've been using Apple Maps with CarPlay for the last few years and I can confidently say it is better than google maps by a wide margin. The voice, UI, traffic and routing, map design won me over. The aerial and street view quality, while not the most important, are second to none.
I'm sorry, CarPlay is awful. I'm forced to use it and the UX is TERRIBLE. I'm actually somewhat surprised that they've left it in the state it's in.
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I understand that you disagree, however your disagreement seems to be based upon a pretty significant misunderstanding/lack of knowledge both about these apps and their privileges.
> misunderstanding/lack of knowledge both about these apps and their privileges. Yet you've been able to present none. According to your claims the zero-click escape that caussed the critical 4.8 security update to be released in the last two weeks isn't possible, and yet it happened. So please, by all means, explain why Apple's apps should be structured like this: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/01/remot…
What am I supposed to present? A complete history of computer science and system design?
"isn't possible"
Any app on any system, if exploitable, can be used for a chain attack to exploit further vulnerabilities (and 14.8 was a bandaid for just such an attack). That's ignoring that iMessages is also such a high value target for its own data, in the same way that Signal and other messaging apps are high value targets, and not just as a path to chaining 0 days.
This is a not useful conversation that I hesitated engaging in at first glance (when someone does the "if only they just waved hand everything would be great" it's founded in dubious logic 100% of the time), so feel free to reply into the ether.
Apple continues to support OS updates on the iPhone 6s, a device released almost 6 years ago. Nor is it reserved for their flagship models - the 2016 iPhone SE also gets the latest and greatest. Meanwhile, my flagship android phone from 2018, the Samsung Galaxy S9, is stuck on the last version of Android. At least it still gets security updates, some manufacturers don't even go that far.
How do Google's pure Android phones compare in this regard? Are they supported for longer? Eg, is this premature ending of support a Samsung thing, or is it endemic to the whole Android ecosystem, including Google?
(Added) Of course, this doesn't explain why Samsung doesn't provide longer support. And I also don't know the reason but I guess their mobile division perhaps doesn't have enough power to negotiate against its chip division...
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>Stay on iOS 14 until Apple surrenders completely on this Or vote with your wallet and abandon the Apple ecosystem. But nobody will because they don't have the bollocks.
More that I need a smart phone for work and life but there are no viable alternatives to iOS and Android, and I trust Apple slightly more than Google not to spy on me and use it against me