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Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by tannedNerd »

acqq wrote: post #141
geoffpado wrote: post #133

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One of my apps, Black Highlighter [0], uses the photo library permissions to display your library to actually pick a image to edit in the app, and also to write your edited images back to the library. This is the main functionality of the app , and it's what people want to be able to do. I'm not doing anything nefarious with people's images, I'm just… building an image editor. Can I use other methods to let people pi…

Sorry, I still don’t understand why you believe that you has to ship an app using new features in 24 hours if your app worked even without using them all this time? Did I understand that the existing picker worked and will work in your case? So where that 24 hour pressure comes from in your case? I didn‘t understand that your app built with the tools for 13 would be broken on 14? And if it would be, why?

That’s thing it wouldn’t work. It would have broken permissions and would never be able to properly function. Just like the location api changes etc. If try to launch an ios11 app like Instagram in ios14 it would be completely useless and nonfunctional because of just permission api changes. Not to mention any of the million other things Apple changes. So ya that’s this 24 hours is a crunch because even if 15% update the first day that’s 150+ Million Devices.

Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by srtjstjsj »

romanoderoma wrote: post #153
nlitened wrote: post #109

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My computer browser is indeed fine, but my mother's -- is an entirely different story. I am really happy I can still get her an iPad these days.

My mother buys books when she wants to read My mother uses her phone to actually call people There's no risk she's gonna use apps that she doesn't know My mother is not stupid, for sure she' s not more stupid than me. I'm growing tired of this false and ageist retohric

Denying the existence of someone's mother is quite rude.

Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by srtjstjsj »

valuearb wrote: post #166
snemvalts wrote: post #108

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Even if they switched to Android, they'd still have to ensure iOS compatibility since Apple has ~60% of the smartphone market in the US. Any abusive behaviour from Apple at this monopolistic stage is just asking for an antitrust case & resolution.

Apple has never had even 50% of the US smartphone market. https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...

iOS is 60% of the mobile (phone+tablet) market

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...

Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by srtjstjsj »

eddieroger wrote: post #148
snemvalts wrote: post #108

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Even if they switched to Android, they'd still have to ensure iOS compatibility since Apple has ~60% of the smartphone market in the US. Any abusive behaviour from Apple at this monopolistic stage is just asking for an antitrust case & resolution.

That's a misuse of "monopolistic" - 60% is not a majority to the point of no competition. Any developer could write an Android-only app if they wanted, they just don't do it.

Most consumers only handle one phone.

Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by colejohnson66 »

fatnoah wrote: post #162
realusername wrote: post #66

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Yeah, I guess some people decided that technical errors helping you to find what is going on are "ugly".

Mac/iOS error: App just disappears Android error: App displays error and disappears Windows error: App displays error, possibly writes to error log, dumps memory to disk, and suggests you visit a URL that provides no useful information. None of them are great, but at least Windows gives you something to search for. EDIT: Formatting

Crash logs are available on iOS in the settings.

Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by colejohnson66 »

valuearb wrote: post #163
saagarjha wrote: post #101

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Well, I think you might be misunderstanding this a bit. What happens is that you download a compressed application and that is signed by Apple to prevent tampering, I assume to prevent XcodeGhost-like malware. The issue is that 1. this only tells you that the file you have came from Apple but not what it contains and 2. Xcode is massive and downloading it, verifying it and then uncompressing it to run it and check it…

The last beta was 28Gb, nearly double the size of version 11.

What? Are delta updates not a thing?

Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by pier25 »

I'm sure some people at Apple do care about developers, but these are not the people making the important decisions.

Apple knows they are in control of +60% of the app mobile revenue worldwide. It wouldn't surprise me if management believed third party developers should consider themselves privileged to be on their platform.

Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by gamblor956 »

rovr138 wrote: post #150
dayjobpork wrote: post #84

Don't worry Apple hates users too. I've once had a Windows update break software, and I was easily able to downgrade the broken update (and it wasn't really MSvs fault entirely, graphics driver issue). Multiple times I've had ipad updates break apps, and some apps have never worked again because the developers don't bother updating the app, and Apple blocks downgrading because...

Windows has broken installations in the past, https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/02/16/windows-10-kb453269... It’s not all roses over there.

The point is that windows can break but it provides you tools to undo the break. With Apple, you're SOL.

Re: Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

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Post by t-writescode »

nlitened wrote: post #92
pojntfx wrote: post #3

Honestly, this is why we need the Web. But Apple even blocks that since they don’t allow any browser engine apart from Safari, meaning that there is no - Add to homescreen dialog - Background sync - Proper push notifications - Proper WASM support (a lot of features are missing) Honestly, at this point, the government should step in, like they did at the end of the last century with Microsoft. Walled gardens hurt inno…

Why wouldn't you use Android then? I would personally like to continue paying higher prices to protect myself from low-quality background-syncing byte-code-obfuscated web-pages with push notifications, please.

Privacy concerns about Google and security updates at the mercy of terrible carriers.

But those reasons are weakening.

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