Apple treats developers with respect. And respect is everything for a developer.
Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
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Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Annoying vegans" are usually associated with baseless moral grandstanding by their detractors. Someone who meticulously cites their sources and allows those citations to do the arguing for him seems like the exact opposite.
FWIW, it's possible to be both a moral grandstander and meticulously cite sources: for example, consider a vegan who says it's morally wrong to kill animals (which, depending on your worldview, could be baseless), but also cites sources saying that eating meat is a bad choice for the environment (which is easily citable).
No one was making a comment on veganism. I guess an opportunity to grandstand was too hard to pass up.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#233Apple treats developers with respect. And respect is everything for a developer.
Just yesterday, I decided to contribute to an FOSS project that required the use of Apple Music API. Sadly, Apple requires an yearly $100 to create an Apple Developer account. Privacy is all fine, but this is just pure greed.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 tal…
Thank you for your feedback and questions.
1. Yes, each Pony account is a new email address @pony.gg. I think of this as a feature. You start with a brand new space separate from your existing world of instantaneous messaging. Of course you can use it for anything, but the idea behind Pony is it provides a special place for your correspondence, so starting blank and with a fully fledged, separate email account is what made sense to me. There are other services that let you do similar things with existing email providers but that didn’t make sense to me: if you can still get and send mail at any time by circumventing these wrapping services, you need to exercise mental discipline to obtain the sort of experience Pony provides without any cognitive load at all (which is the whole point).
I considered adding a contact import feature but decided to collect feedback first.
2. The business model is TBD, with users being the requisite first step for any business model. But user privacy is paramount and the privacy policy lists all third parties (currently only Google Analytics, and at that, proxied through Pony so you the user do not expose yourself to Google and we get less information as a result). We’re free now and would like to continue offering a free tier in the future without turning our users into the product at the expense of their privacy. That seems possible to me!
3. Improving and expanding the home page. Thank you for this feedback.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#235+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…
If your Android phone is compatible[0], you might enjoy the result from installing LineageOS on it. If you wish, you can continue to use the Google Play Services package (which is where Google does all the tracking, and is also the only way to get the Play Store). I chose not to and use F-Droid and directly downloaded APKs, which saves me from running any proprietary code that I haven’t vetted carefully. It also solv…
LineageOS has a tendancy to disable or break piles of vital security features very carefully architected by Google security researchers like verified boot. Google also maintains a release process designed to help mitigate supply chain attacks. LineageOS also deviates from AOSP sources enough that it often creates significant time delays before new security patches can be backported if they get backported at all.
Sadly stock Google phones also violate your privacy and the privacy of those around you. Stock Android is not a great solution either.
We can have it both ways! Check out https://github.com/hashbang/os
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#236Earlier 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?
> you must have an apple account (that includes your personal details) just to get MacOS security updates
I don't think this is true anymore since they decoupled system updates from the App Store again in Mojave
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#237Apple treats developers with respect. And respect is everything for a developer.
Just yesterday, I decided to contribute to an FOSS project that required the use of Apple Music API. Sadly, Apple requires an yearly $100 to create an Apple Developer account. Privacy is all fine, but this is just pure greed.
It's a closed platform. There's nothing wrong with closed platforms, and nothing greedy with comercial products or money making businesses. Unless you live in a communist country, of course.
Re: Reasons Not to Use Apple (2018)
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My new iPhone XR needs to be charged only once or twice per week. It's not the only phone that does that and it's not a new feature. Even with older phones, you can simply get a battery case. > with an excellent user interface The user interface is terrible and all the core features are extremely limited with no extensibility whatsoever. Just about every other desktop OS has a better user interface. > Apple makes m…
Just to make sure I understand you and your perspective correctly, I'll isolate just your first point: You are saying that there is, in fact, no difference between a phone with a good battery and a different phone with a separate battery you must attach to it? I believe this line of reasoning also explains your other points satisfactorily.
Incorrect. My first point was that the iPhone XR is not the first phone that only has to be charged once or twice a week.
My second point was that you can also extend the life of any phone with a battery case. And yes, after you install a batter case that uses pass-through charging there's essentially no difference.
> I believe this line of reasoning also explains your other points satisfactorily.
OK and I'll assume that your misreading, your misunderstanding and your incomplete response to my points stem from an intentionally weak interpretation.