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True of pretty much anything Apple. "For our user's security" they lock down devices entirely. No custom firmware, no custom apps, no ... and ... of course they charge for it, and when you look at how much their efforts to improve user's security cost them. https://www.statista.com/statistics/250918/apples-revenue-fr... Apple charges developers and users "for our user's security" (the App store is the vast majority o…
But at least iPhones are fabulously secure. Security is a major reason I changed to an iPhone from Android (I also think Apple beats Google for privacy). I'm definitely no fanboi (actually I've disliked Apple as a company after ][). I'm really impressed with some of Apple's security features - especially the custom hardware-backed measures. I'm unsure the financial argument makes much sense. A browser is hard to make…
That's the argument apple makes. And yet the biggest app store restrictions are about payment to apps (only allowed through apple, with a 30% cut, slightly reduced). Besides, I don't really see a big difference between Android and iPhones.
> I'm unsure the financial argument makes much sense.
That's the argument apple makes. Despite this being the only growth area in their financial reports, while everything else on their financial report is going down.
> I do hope that we get a competitor browser
That's the argument apple makes, while preventing competing browsers from coming onto the platform.