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Can you not just make her a separate account and make her put her own card on there?
> if I want to keep app purchase sharing.
Regardless, there has to be a breaking point. The value of sharing those will be exceeded by the microtransactions at some point
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>It's shocking that Apple hasn't done this trick yet when everyone else started doing it years ago. They sell a walled garden. If shit gets inside the walls, we might as well come out. I’m not willing to pay the apple tax any longer. Let the ad sellers pay if they’re the main costumers.
It’s still better than the alternatives
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It’s still better than the alternatives
In what ways? Apple, IMHO, has been jumping on every proverbial band wagon. And some of its 'better intended' changes like ATT seem only to have been to stifle competition while they set up their own solution.
I'm not saying I like what Apple is doing here, but I trust Google a lot less with my data.
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In what ways? Apple, IMHO, has been jumping on every proverbial band wagon. And some of its 'better intended' changes like ATT seem only to have been to stifle competition while they set up their own solution.
Well, the alternatives is Android and... not really much else, for a full-featured smartphone. Say what you will about Apple, they're not perfect, but they have a better track record w.r.t privacy than Google in every way. I'm not saying I like what Apple is doing here, but I trust Google a lot less with my data.
I am not aware of any alternatives that exist for Apple devices though
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> their online services are trivial to ignore once and never think about again The workarounds to get rid of the nag to log into your icloud account on macOS are far more difficult than the workarounds to avoid using an MS account in Windows.
> The workarounds to get rid of the nag to log into your icloud account on macOS Do you have an example? I have to set up macOS on the regular, and after saying no to iCloud on the setup screen, it never bothers me again. They are very aggressive with trying to get me to “update” to Tahoe, though.
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> You're not allowed to use Pikachu commercially. There are many uses of "Pikachu" that are reserved for the trademark holder, but by-and-large the point of trademark is to avoid consumer confusion by preventing people from passing off goods/services that aren't from the "Pikachu" holder as actually being from the "Pikachu" trademark holder. Generally, I am allowed to use "Pikachu" if it's in reference to Pikachu and…
During a sale aren’t allowed to lie about digimon being pikachu, even if it’s hard to enforce.
(It's a contrived hypothetical, but the closest I could get to a meat-space version of search keywords.)
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I'm not trying to excuse Amazon but you do know what like, super markets, best buy etc, take ad money (promotional money?) from suppliers who pay for placement. That Samsung TV at the front being pushed at you, that's effectively ad money Samsung paid to have their TVs put at the front of the store. Those cans of Coke stacked at the end of the isle or piled up near the entrance at your super market? Coke paid to have…
When I owned a liquor store, the cigarette sales reps would all fall over themselves givings us free stuff, including straight cash, to place their cigarettes more prominently than the other brands. This would last for about a week or two until the other brand's rep would notice and up the ante. > Those cans of Coke stacked at the end of the isle or piled up near the entrance at your super market? Coke paid to have t…
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I can’t confirm that exact percentage, but yes—“prime” placements on Amazon are driven by Amazon Ads. the Sponsored Brands banner at the top of the search results page, and the Top of Search Sponsored Products slots. [1] https://advertising.amazon.com/lp/build-your-business-with-a...
>I can’t confirm that exact percentage, but yes—“prime” placements on Amazon are driven by Amazon Ads. It's a quip, anecdata, not quantitative analysis————why would you need to "confirm that exact percentage"?
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> I’m not willing to pay the apple tax any longer. Problem here is that when you decide you no longer wish to pay the tax and want to exit the walled garden, you discover that there's a heap of functionality and convenience you'll have to let go, and add complexity and cost to your setup. I actively avoided relying on iCloud even when it was the sane option, but many people that will feel like the walled garden is no…
Other than blue bubbles, you aren't leaving behind much nowadays. Apple is now lagging in general usability vs competitors, Siri as one glaring example.
This is still true even if you use a Mac as an intermediary (if you have one), which also implies that you're probably going to be using iCloud to sync those as well.
Bottom line: it's exceptionally difficult, even for tech-forward Apple-philes, to move your own data off your iPhone without actually going DEEPER into the Apple ecosystem, and Apple has been actively removing capabilities and neutering apps like NextCloud etc (always for 'privacy' or 'security' reasons) to make it MORE difficult to exfil your own data.
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My family has made it clear that I need to be available on iMessage or I'd be right there with you.
Why? There is literally no difference. imessage is seamless with sms and mms.
Message is the only thing preventing me to switch of iPhone, as lineage or graphene will require installing WhatsApp, which is a big No.