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Rotten Apple
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#102> Instead of graciously acknowledging that this is what’s best for users, Apple are throwing a tantrum. I’m a user and a developer and I’m convinced this is not what’s best for users.
I'm just looking forward to have a pornhub app.
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#103Sure this situation already exists on Mac OS but that is a much smaller user base and there are plenty of alternatives where you can go and install arbitrary software. I deal with weird stuff my parents have installed on their Macs every time I visit… so far I haven’t had to do that with their phones. If I wanted them to use a Firefox browser engine on their phone I’d get them an Android.
It's so funny that every HN post on this topic produces more and more contrived reasons for why having less choice is better, actually. Today: my parents need to be coddled like children, so you don't get to install a new browser.
It's only because Apple's legal wrangling failed that Android even exists today.
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#104Perhaps we have reached peak Apple. I was a fanboy for a long time but when USB-C came to the iPhone something clicked for me. There was no good reason except money making why they didn't do it sooner. Perhaps the magic spell is broken. Yes, their computers may be good, but maybe the company that makes them, isn't.
Do you have to check which way round a USB-C connector is before you plug it in?
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#105fighting to sustain a monopoly it indicates to me a lack of ideas about the future reacting rather than preparing
With a soon to be nonexistent middle class in the USA (as well as big growth in comparatively poor countries) getting Apple-style huge profits in the next 2-3 decades is going to be much more about getting $20-50/mo/user in perpetuity and less about selling premium price $1k-3k devices. The AVP (at like version 3 or 4) is the endgame for “Apple should make a TV”. It’s the ultimate passive content consumption device.…
Any organization is committed to recurring revenue because it has recurring costs, most importantly salaries.
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#106I think the main issue is attribution. Especially when a lot of stuff breaks even on web, when you change the browser. Imagine I have some PWA at home screen now, working with Safari engine. I changed my browser to Chrome, let's say it stopped working. 90% of the users will blame Apple software update instead of the Chrome choice.
We luckily are finally living in a world where browser incompatibility is not a big issue anymore.
And as a developer, you'd simply check that your PWA works with Safari, Firefox and Chrome.
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#107I have an ipad through which I subscribed for Apple arcade. I don't use it / play at all on it and there was recently an email that price is going up. Sure, I'll just cancel subscription I said. I don't have my ipad on me, nor any other apple device (I don't use them anymore), nor windows. I have linux machines and android phone. Ok, so how do I cancel subscription? icloud login? no. subscription place of sorts? it w…
You could use iTunes in Windows https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039
If you don't have a Windows license, you can get a trial VM from here https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
Yes it is a pain that Apple doesn't offer a simple webpage for subscription management.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple always assume that you use their devices as primaries. It can be very annoying. When I wanted to get my wife a replacement MB, I ended up checking out as a guest as they insisted on sending my 2FA code to my iPad (which mostly just annoyed my toddler).
No. The user base for Apple Music on Windows is huge. Apple devices are secondary. Using the AM app is primary, once you've been successfully sucked into the Apple ecosystem, Borg-like.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is actually a big problem on Android. My ex father-in-law literally had his bank account ripped off (£18000) from rogue app installed from outside the app store. And Google's stewardship of the play store is terrible. Note I'm mostly an Android user.
> This is actually a big problem on Android. The fact that you have an anecdote does not make it a "big problem". If you're side loading apps and entering banking credentials into them, that's a human problem, not a tech problem.
Ignoring this kind of absurd distinction is what made Apple the most valuable company on earth. (That doesn't justify their behaviour in this case, as PWAs are a secure alternative to sideloading.)
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#110A lot of this article appears to be based on the belief that the security architecture of iOS and MacOS are identical. This seems ... an unlikely assumption
I think a more problematic assumption is that iOS and MacOS users are equally aware and knowledgeable about potential security threats. It’s true that the sky hasn’t fallen because MacOS users are exposed to these risks. But they are not new risks on MacOS. They will be on iOS.
The sky hasn't fallen for the 70% of smartphone users who have an Android.