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Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by valuearb »

talkingtab wrote: post #65

The #1 reason not to use Apple is their arrogance toward their users. I don't want them to lie to me about my battery, nor make me choose their music over spotify and engage in other customer-hostile policies to make money. If it were only that simple, sigh. Google is much worse. Apple at least lip sync's privacy, I suspect when it is to their advantage. I believe Apple just has no clue as to how to create products a…

Fortunately you can choose Spotify, in fact Apple has distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free.

And Apple did not lie about your battery, it kept your phone from spontaneously restarting when your battery declined to a pout where it couldn’t generate adequate voltage for the system. Apple just did a poor job of communicating what iOS was doing to prevent this.

Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by bluche »

talkingtab wrote: post #65

The #1 reason not to use Apple is their arrogance toward their users. I don't want them to lie to me about my battery, nor make me choose their music over spotify and engage in other customer-hostile policies to make money. If it were only that simple, sigh. Google is much worse. Apple at least lip sync's privacy, I suspect when it is to their advantage. I believe Apple just has no clue as to how to create products a…

>to lie to me about my battery What do you mean by lying?

Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by valuearb »

simion314 wrote: post #143
mch82 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Apple prohibit sending them the source code so that they can compile and load it through Xcode? I realize that requires a MacOS computer, which costs money, but the “free” in free software principles is about the freedom to share the code, not the price of the code. Free software is allowed to be sold. Increasingly, it is also possible to run Swift code on Linux without Xcode or MacOS (recognizing the GUI would…

Are you serious? Does Sony prevent me emailing my friends my game source code? They "JUST" need developer system with expensive proprietary software and developer accounts, certificates and agree to a few EULAs and ToSs but I am not prevented to send them source code.

You don’t need to do that on iOS. Xcode is free with $99/year dev account, you can TestFlight builds to all of your friends, up to 10,000 of them.

Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by welcome_dragon »

valuearb wrote: post #171
talkingtab wrote: post #65

The #1 reason not to use Apple is their arrogance toward their users. I don't want them to lie to me about my battery, nor make me choose their music over spotify and engage in other customer-hostile policies to make money. If it were only that simple, sigh. Google is much worse. Apple at least lip sync's privacy, I suspect when it is to their advantage. I believe Apple just has no clue as to how to create products a…

Fortunately you can choose Spotify, in fact Apple has distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free. And Apple did not lie about your battery, it kept your phone from spontaneously restarting when your battery declined to a pout where it couldn’t generate adequate voltage for the system. Apple just did a poor job of communicating what iOS was doing to prevent this.

What do you mean by "distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free"?

Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by xthestreams »

dana321 wrote: post #69

Recent examples of why not to use apple: 1. Their new keyboards are terrible, and are buggy. 2. Lack of headphone jack on phones. 3. Vast price increases for relatively little new features. 4. Constant upgrading of the OS which breaks half of the software you use.

The new keyboards have been buggy, that's true. They're not buggy anymore afaik.

Personally, I'm not really into Apple but I love the new keyboard, and I use it as my main tool every day. It really bugs me when people make use of personal opinions as facts.

Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by valuearb »

simion314 wrote: post #52
mch82 wrote: post #18

I disagree with the bullets about banning/censoring apps. There are ways to install and run software on iOS without using the AppStore. If developers share source code, people are free to compile and install it using Xcode. It’s also possible to run Python programs using Pythonista. Finally, programs can be run as JavaScript in Safari. Apple definitely controls the AppStore. That makes it less convenient to install p…

Are you aware of the limitations of the methods you describe? If yes it is very dishonest to not mention them, if not you should get the details right(find out how can you share an iOS native app you made with your friends)

Any developer can distribute up to 10,000 people for free through TestFlight with very limited app review. If you add your friends to your developer account there is no review at all.

Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by valuearb »

robertAngst wrote: post #17
JimmyAustin wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman Stallman has been the leading proponent of software freedom for many, many decades. He isn't inherently against big corps, he is against what a lot of big corps do.

Can anyone on HN explain why software freedom could ever be a bad thing? IE: I only see it as Apple having extreme upfront costs, keeping poor people away from developing.

iOS development costs only $99 a year.

Of course if Spotify is able to win its suit, iOS development will become far more costly, Apple won’t be able to distribute free apps at no charge anymore, like it does for Spotify.

Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by dmitryminkovsky »

dmitryminkovsky wrote: post #93
mark_l_watson wrote: post #88

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Cool idea. I like to ‘go dark’ and not receive emails or phone/text while I am working but I don’t know if I could do once a day email. Nice idea though.

Thank you! > but I don’t know if I could do once a day email. Maybe you’d be surprised? There is a notification you can get if you get anything in our daily delivery, so you don’t completely forget about it.

EDIT: in your daily delivery

Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)

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Post by flycaliguy »

saagarjha wrote: post #98

The problem I have with Stallman is that he’s usually right, but he is remarkably horrible at coming across as someone with valid opinions. It is disingenuous to come to the table with clearly cherry-picked evidence, and calling companies and their products with stupid names is just childish. There are a lot of problems with companies, and Stallman is very good at recognizing them, but he’s just pretty bad at getting…

Once you get over that hurdle, he really is a valuable resource. Like, we all kind of have that problem with him I think, but the guy still earns his seat at the table. In fact, buddy sorta set the table...

I just don’t see him as the type that needs to be publicly polished. Why does he have to be? He’s a character, I like it.

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