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Rotten Apple
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not my intention to brag about it, but I run an R&D company and have invented and patents on quite a lot of network technologies :) The only time in my life where I had an infected devices was in the year 1993 - a boot sector virus on a floppy disk I got from someone. Luckily my wife is a nerd, too, by sister is trained and has not yet fallen for any of the social engineering tricks before. So no, I do not have to de…
I envy you :)
Well, on the other hand it implies that most of my family is dead and buried already, and therefore would have a hard time annoying me with their IT problems.
If that's a good deal is a matter of perspective ;)
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but when you want to cancel it is strange that you need your iPad Come on, of course that's ridiculous. Of course a reasonable person would expect to be able to cancel a subscription without needing the device it was created on when they used an account that you can log into from basically anywhere. If I bought an iPad and subscribed to something, and then accidentality dropped it off a cliff, or out of a plane, or…
This entire thread is ridiculous. Just pickup the phone and cancel your subscription. Yes, I get that you can't spin up a virtual machine of OS/2 and and use Netscape navigator to cancel your subscription because you dropped your iPad off the balcony of your cruise ship. OK, call them up and cancel. I'll hate on apple all day, but damn if this thread isn't pedantic as hell. Jeeze. oh my toddler is annoyed about a 2FA…
> Give me a break. "Hey son, read to me the 6 digit code you just got on MY IPAD, Thanks son! Good reading my boy!"
That assumes said toddler can read. I'm currently teaching her to deal with the login code, but it's a slow process.
Do you know many toddlers (i.e. 2-3 year olds) who can read?
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You do get to install a new browser, on a platform you’d prefer, one that is open and supports choice, go over there.
No. Follow the law.
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#145Why Safari can’t just launch from a Home Screen bookmark even if the user has chosen another “default browser”? PWAs are already a separate “island” of storage and share nothing with Safari App… Microsoft does it all the time with Edge on Windows.
Perhaps this is just "all we could deliver by the compliance deadline without compromising platform security" ? The truth is usually a lot less interesting than the hypothesis.
Is it the strategy of handing in homework half finished while crying about how the world's been unfair to you lately ?
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#146Ah, another article on HN complaining about Apple. Groundbreaking!
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#147> I’m going to get a lot of emails from confused users wondering why their app is broken, now opening in a regular browser window. Newsflash incoming for you.. Just about none of your users will (1) care (2) used the "PWA" in the first place. It's really not that common to add apps to the home screen. Among very technical users, it's a fair bit more common though.
It's a single data point but the Xbox Cloud Play (game streaming service) works on iOS through a PWA since Apple required that any service like that submit a seperate app for each game that it permitted to be streamed.
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#148I 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…
A feature of the Apple platform is aggregation of control, but they put the control within iOS.
This is awesome. I don't have to chase down fifty-eleven other sites to manage the things I subscribed to on my phone or iPad, including the services I buy from Apple itself. It's an extremely consumer-friendly aspect of the platform, and one I would miss very much if I switched to something else.
But yes, to use this feature of the platform, you need to have access to the platform. As you have discovered, though, Apple DOES have a phone option as well, though I'm sure it's less convenient to use.
Honestly, it just seems like you were primed to be annoyed about Apple, and have failed to realize your complaints look pretty thin.
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#149I wonder how the EU will respond when high-ranking politicians fall victim to third-party app store scams or experience significant data leaks exploited through other browsers. Given that they're not particularly tech-savvy, it raises questions about their preparedness for such situations, and who they will blame for it.
You don't have to wonder, as Android has had this model for years. So that should help you predict. Hint: not an issue.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is saying it uses a different storage area for the same thing and you presumably end up with different service workers between web and the app. Is that a good thing? My guess is they had no other choice.
Every browser other then Safari has the same storage for both PWA and website. Apple claims separate storage is "great for privacy" -- forcing you to use the cloud to sync between the PWA and the website.
Yes, I get tired of that line too.