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Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
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Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#222+1 Richard Sure, he is cherry picking examples, but there are a lot of examples to choose from. I used mostly Linux at home for about 15 years, then switched to a decade of MacOS. My new laptop is a Linux laptop and I think I will go back to Linux as my main driver. I am really conflicted about cellphones. I was unhappy with the crap ware preloaded on my Verizon Android phones. I am happier with a Verizon iPhone, as…
> I am reading Cal Newport’s new book Digital Minimalism that is making me realize that I need to be more focused in how I spend any screen time. To this end I am launching an email service that sends and receives messages once a day. The idea is that with one delivery each day, you don’t need to regulate or discipline yourself as much, and you get a lot more space to think and enjoy your communication. It’s called P…
I have a few questions and suggestions since I didn't clearly understand what your service does.
1. Does your service create a new email address for the user (something like @pony.gg), requiring users to update all their contacts with this address so that correspondence gets sent here? Or does it work with existing mailboxes?
2. What is the business model and pricing? I couldn't find any pricing links or any FAQs talking about whether it's free or paid or has free and paid tiers.
3. Please copy some of the content from your About page into your homepage to make it clearer. The homepage should have more information so the potential user knows what it does.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
What evidence is there that Apple collects data unnecessarily?
I didn't think this was a controversial assertion. Most big techs have been collecting plenty of information that is non-essential for their functions. For instance, you must have an apple account (that includes your personal details) just to get MacOS security updates. Why is that necessary if you don't intend to buy any software from the store?
It's necessary so if anyone ever feel like buying something from the store they don't need to register. It reduces the chance that they will 'bounce' and not buy. It's that simple.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't think this was a controversial assertion. Most big techs have been collecting plenty of information that is non-essential for their functions. For instance, you must have an apple account (that includes your personal details) just to get MacOS security updates. Why is that necessary if you don't intend to buy any software from the store?
It's necessary so if anyone ever feel like buying something from the store they don't need to register. It reduces the chance that they will 'bounce' and not buy. It's that simple.
I know that is the reason. I strongly disagree in that qualifying as a necessary thing to do.
If that was accepted as necessary data collection, GDPR wouldn't have made any fuss whatsoever: big techs would keep collecting all the data they wanted because "it is necessary to reduce the chance that we won't earn buckets of money".
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#2251. Apple takes privacy and data safety seriously. It invests a significant amount of engineering effort into keeping user data safe. It doesn't comply with government requests unless forced, after deploying its vast legal means to hold them back. 2. Other consumer electronics devices aren't built in factories that are any different or better than those of Foxconn. While it doesn't absolve Apple from taking some respo…
> Apple takes privacy and data safety seriously.
They might, but for the most valuable company in the world, they had plenty of mishaps recently, from logging APFS encryption password to allowing anyone to log in as root without a password.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores. They take 30% of paid app revenues (15% of long term subscriptions). Apple has distributed over 300M downloads of Spotify to iOS users, since Spotify is a free app it hasn’t paid a cent for over 30 Petabytes of bandwidth costs.
And they don't charge for distribution per se but their cut more than makes up for it.
> Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores.
Yes they do, publishing on the App Store isn't free. Also, they favor some apps they don't compete with, (Uber), while handicapping others, (Spotify). Hardly fair.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#227The #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?
They removed the API to get the exact battery capacity/charge.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same with Google. Google has privacy teams as well which are > quite powerful and forces lots of safeguards about how exactly data can be used. Apple recommends apps based on other apps I've downloaded. So does Google. Apple recommends music based on other music I've played. So does Google. Apple recommends books and movies as well based on similar data. So does Google. Apple keeps track of every placed your Apple de…
You seem to be simplifying things a bit too much. Apple doesn’t keep track of where your device has been. Your iPhone knows but it’s not being sent to Apple. Google has been shown to know this data even when you disable as many location services as you can.
> Apple doesn’t keep track of where your device has been.
The iPhone certainly does keep track of where it has been. There was even a scandal about it a few years back. It may not upload it to Apple's servers yet, but that's only a matter of shifting strategy and a software update away.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Saying "google doesn't care about privacy" and giving examples is being divisive? This is starting to border on parody. You're doing a terrible job.
I was referring for starters to "HAHAHA stop spreading lies", which is obviously against the guidelines. Since you don't seem to want to use this site as intended, I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
You're a bigger problem to this website than I am. Ban your own account.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's how the internet works ... and Apple is hosting the app only. It doesn't deal with the streaming
I don't have too much knowledge about how the delivery of apps in iOS store works, but I could infer that it is not only hosting files. They need at least to keep multiple versions and delivery the one that fits the proper iOS version of the device. And, based on my experience with delivering desktop apps I think there is much more to that. For example I was just delivering one single app to customers and still I nee…
The App store is one of Apples most profitable segments.
Let's not act like its philanthropy.