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Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by actsof »

jdjdjjsjs wrote: post #144
MiroF wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well WhatsApp is free and iMessage has a multiple hundred dollar price tag attached. Apple consciously doesn't make the APIs for iMessage available.

By that logic WhatsApp isn't free. I have to spend hundreds of dollars upfront to buy a phone, and worse, hundreds of dollars each year to maintain a phone line to use WhatsApp. WhatsApp doesn't provide an API so I could use it on my existing laptop over WiFi for free (the WhatsApp web requires it to be setup on a phone first).

>I have to spend hundreds of dollars upfront to buy a phone

But the phone doesn't have to be bought from Facebook, whereas with iMessage you have to pay Apple for a phone.

>maintain a phone line to use WhatsApp.

I wonder what the reason for this is. Maybe to reduce spam? Data collection?

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by jtbayly »

askbjoernhansen wrote: post #222
jtbayly wrote: post #185

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This is an example of a url from the app: https://apple.news/A4my1m78WSvGiuorZbkAUiQ I thought deep links used something beside http to specify which app to open. Regardless, I can’t open that link.

Opening it in Chrome (or with curl...) I got a (HTML) redirect to https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/12/27/coast-to-c...

Thx, but doesn't that indicate that it's not a deep link, but a simple redirect that Apple refuses to give to me when I use their default browser—instead giving me something else?

And it's worth noting that simply clicking that link gives me the following alert:

>Restore "News"? > >You followed a link that requires the app "News", which is no longer on your iPhone. You can restore it from the App Store.

The two choices I'm given are "Show in App Store" or "Cancel"

Apple clearly tells me that it is impossible for me to view this webpage unless I install their News app. This is clearly false, technically, and I knew it. But I literally hadn't figured out how to view it until somebody mentioned trying copying and pasting the url into another browser.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by MiroF »

jdjdjjsjs wrote: post #144
MiroF wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well WhatsApp is free and iMessage has a multiple hundred dollar price tag attached. Apple consciously doesn't make the APIs for iMessage available.

By that logic WhatsApp isn't free. I have to spend hundreds of dollars upfront to buy a phone, and worse, hundreds of dollars each year to maintain a phone line to use WhatsApp. WhatsApp doesn't provide an API so I could use it on my existing laptop over WiFi for free (the WhatsApp web requires it to be setup on a phone first).

But I get to choose who to pay - and most people already have a phone.

maintaining a phone line doesn't cost hundreds of dollars a year

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by mundiff »

jonplackett wrote: post #228
saagarjha wrote: post #192

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I'm not even sure their engineers understand how annoying it is. They've implemented links in such a horrible way, and it's gotten worse with time (for example, there is a feature where if you open a link and have the right associated app installed, it will open the link in the app. There used to be a way to force the link to open in Safari in case you didn't want to open the app; it'd show up in the top right. The f…

This is so annoying. I hate being bounced around like this. There used to be an issue with amazon with this where you’d try to buy an ebook and be bounced into the app, but you can’t buy ebooks in the app because amazon don’t want to pay Apple 30% of the cost. I just had to delete the amazon app to buy the book. Luckily their website works just as well.

this was literally an example that was given of poor user experience during a UX class I took.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by tadzik_ »

purplezooey wrote: post #91

I wish companies would pay some attention to RSS. It's viewed as somehow less than important than social media. But it's the only solution of its kind.

It's empowering the users while providing minimal control for the content provider – no wonder for-profit companies avoid it like a plague.

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by gvjddbnvdrbv »

actsof wrote: post #239
gvjddbnvdrbv wrote: post #220

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doesn't Linux use libmagic?

What you're referring to as Linux is actually... GNU/Linux doesn't automatically choose which program to use for anything (you can't ./file.png like you can in Windows). In my experience file managers tend to use file extensions to choose which application to use, and that application might then use libmagic and ignore the file extension. (e.g. giving a PNG file the .JPG extension will make the file manager think it'…

xdg-open ./file.png

Re: Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #34
simonw wrote: post #7

The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom/RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you'll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error. Here's a video I recorded of this behaviour: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1210622908143415297 I think I'd rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL…

Apple's hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power. The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.

>The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.

The solution is to deregister your phone number for iMessage; if you don't do this, it will happen automatically after a week or so.

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

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