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If you don’t believe this is in response to protest then how do you explain it being rushed out ONLY IN CHINA?
When you work on software available globally, it's very normal to deploy or roll out features region-by-region. This seems par for the course.
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Do you personally know anyone who has been using the same iPhone for 8 years? I find that claim dubious.
He’s replaced the battery but it’s still the same phone. They don’t care much for camera upgrades and it works for them.
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Twitter is far too dangerous to be allowed on the app store Has this actually happened, or is just another attention-seeking rumor being misrepresented as fact?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597300125243944961
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>>There is nothing terrible about Apple making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use. I just don't understand this argument. Never did and I don't think I ever will. If apple allowed you to install custom apps, it would change NOTHING for your 80+ year old mother. Literally nothing. Her device would still be just as safe and secure as ever before.
> If apple allowed you to install custom apps, it would change NOTHING for your 80+ year old mother. Literally nothing. Her device would still be just as safe and secure as ever before. Not it would not still be as safe. Malware and scams would come with instructions to install their custom bad app. “Install this custom Deals app to save money”
I would love a single example of that happening(on android)
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If you don’t believe this is in response to protest then how do you explain it being rushed out ONLY IN CHINA?
When you work on software available globally, it's very normal to deploy or roll out features region-by-region. This seems par for the course.
"The setting was reportedly added after protesters in the country used AirDrop to spread anti-government material."
Most other articles also mention this. I'm not unconvinced this had nothing to do with the feature. I'm just pointing out that this was already in the works. This was not a fast reaction to the current protests.
I don't think this is good. But Apple didn't just roll this out at a whim.
I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics. I’ve lost count of how many scandals have come out of their relationship with China from the suicide nets to the repeated investigations showing their supply chain was riddled with slave labor that they would later campaign against protections that would prevent it. Now this. They are fucked as a company, I can’t get out of their ecosys…
It's not painful at all to drop Apple phones. And the only thing which is constantly bugging me on NixOS desktop is totally inconsistent hotkeys system. So, it's not that hard drop Apple, just do it.
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>>There is nothing terrible about Apple making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use. I just don't understand this argument. Never did and I don't think I ever will. If apple allowed you to install custom apps, it would change NOTHING for your 80+ year old mother. Literally nothing. Her device would still be just as safe and secure as ever before.
At the same time, almost everyone in my family over the age of 60 who uses a non-Apple device has their devices completely sodden with crapware (and probably worse), to the point where they periodically have to taken them in to some sort of computer "repair" person to have them serviced (i.e., the garbage removed). Some people apparently need help making judgment calls about what is and is not safe to install on thei…
I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics. I’ve lost count of how many scandals have come out of their relationship with China from the suicide nets to the repeated investigations showing their supply chain was riddled with slave labor that they would later campaign against protections that would prevent it. Now this. They are fucked as a company, I can’t get out of their ecosys…
I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics. I’ve lost count of how many scandals have come out of their relationship with China from the suicide nets to the repeated investigations showing their supply chain was riddled with slave labor that they would later campaign against protections that would prevent it. Now this. They are fucked as a company, I can’t get out of their ecosys…
The problem is expecting companies to "do the right thing" and not "make money". If there was ever a time companies were good stewards to the world - that time ended before I was born. Yes, Apple is not doing the right thing. Show me any fortune 100 company in the world that would do the right thing... What's frustrating - I think - in this case, is the amount of Apple fanboys who insist that Apple is literally the i…
Companies don't do anything. People do. The individuals who make up any Fortune 100 company most likely do want to do the right thing individually, but communication at scale is really hard which leads to all kinds of unintended consequences.