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Post by Veen »

Xss3 wrote: post #142
Veen wrote: post #83

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Lack of openness means a lack of privacy in theory, but in practice, openness often results in less privacy. The average user lacks the knowledge, time, and motivation to install and configure open systems to maximize privacy. They're likely to make mistakes that expose private data. A closed system that prioritizes privacy will result in more users benefiting from greater privacy overall, even if it does give the pl…

Such a false dichotomy that open automatically means insecure and leaky due to user error. Sensible defaults and warnings about changing them is all you need to put any argument of 'bad for privacy' down.

It’s not a dichotomy, but an observation about how data privacy tends to work in the real world. You can easily refute it with practical examples of how openness has actually improved privacy for the average user relative to Apple’s closed, managed privacy programs. Would an average non-technical Apple user be exposed to higher or lower security and privacy risk if they moved from Apple platforms to open platforms?

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Post by steveBK123 »

wat10000 wrote: post #293
steveBK123 wrote: post #215

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Agree they have a huge taste problem, but even besides that Apple has a huge incumbent problem now really. Smartphones ate the world, and they ate the majority of profit in the space. We are now 20 years on and the software is no longer driving the urgency of the hardware upgrade cycle it used to. Apple gets the majority of its revenue from iPhones and related services. Note that services category includes all sorts…

Apple’s MO, at least in recent decades, is to let others blaze the trail into a new space, then do their own version that gets it right. Smartphones were a big deal before the iPhone. People would talk about how they were addicted to checking email on their “crackberries.” But they were niche. You could see that they were going to be big, but they weren’t there yet. Then the iPhone catapulted smartphones from a popul…

You're 100% right, Apple as a fast-follower "getting it right" tech company, and there's nothing to fast follow right now.

IoT/smarthome has been a niche/fad going nowhere since day 1.

Smart speakers are commodities.

They dabbled in an EV project, canned it.

They've dabbled in AR with the VisionPro but really it's too early, if it will ever work.

AI is software not hardware.

Apple smartphones/tablets/watches have essentially killed 10x more hardware categories than have come into existence since.

They sell a lot of headphones I guess.

The only consumer electronics I buy now outside Apple are basically higher end niche hobbyist stuff in for example music or photography. Nothing that would ever sell at the price levels ($200-1000) or volumes (billions) to move the needle for Apple.

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Post by Spunkie »

ta1243 wrote: post #273
simonklitj wrote: post #201

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My almost 5 year old iPhone 12 does all of this. No issues, no pull towards upgrading except for USB-C.

Not sure why I'd want USB-C and then have to spend a fortune to replace all my existing charger leads with the highly unreliable USB-C ecosystem.

With USB-C you don't actually have to pay the apple tax on cords or chargers, so in no way should it "cost a fortune".

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Post by eviks »

briandw wrote: post #198

The Apple of old had a deep respect for their users. We paid for a product that tried its best to sweat the details and deliver the best experience possible. UX was king. Apple made hard choices and delivered minimal, thoughtful and delightful products. The motto was "less but better". Today we have an Apple that keeps pushing new poorly thought out features. More and more they don't respect the user. Constant interr…

That's just a myth, they've had way too many obvious flaws with conscious self-interested barriers to users' ability to fix bad UX for this to be even remotely true

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Post by Fade_Dance »

layer8 wrote: post #151
moomoo11 wrote: post #144

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I think back then their stock was so bad that anything to make it go up was a good thing. Now Apple is a multi trillion dollar company and they can’t take as much risk.

Given the Vision Pro, and the many billions spent on the now-defunct car project, I’m not so sure this is true.

I agree about project titan/cars. That was a behemoth of a failed experiment experiment.

As for vision pro though and I guess even to a little extent the car exploration, it's sort of "safe" and derivative conceptually.

Steve's experiments were often seemingly directly at odds with profitability. Like, one day he may have looked at the extensive lineup with the "Pro Max" etc, and made the call to cut back down to one iPhone model. Or he would, you know, do something ridiculous like make the next Imac's screen round or something.

It's decisions like that which primarily profit driven mega corporations just can't do.

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Post by mzajc »

drdaeman wrote: post #296
foooorsyth wrote: post #134

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I’ve said several times before that notifications should be reportable as spam directly to Google/Apple, just like email spam reporting. Google tried to tackle this with notification channels, but the onus falls on the developer to actually use them honestly. No company trying to draw attention back to their app with advertisement notifications will willingly name a notification channel “advertisements” or “user re-e…

There should be a public API, open to any user-designated program (including self-made, without requiring any special hoops to obtain any fancy entitlements), that can act as a "firewall" for all notifications (except, possibly, for few system-critical ones), allowing it to control and modify those as it seems fit.

Applications can interact with notifications on the user's behalf via the accessibility permission - I do this with KDE Connect. I don't know what the limitations are.

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Post by Fade_Dance »

epolanski wrote: post #263
keiferski wrote: post #40

Apple without Ive and Jobs increasingly has a taste problem. Everything from their ads to things like this are just in really poor taste, and aren’t something that they would have done 15 years ago because they would have thought it was beneath their brand. I like Apple, so I’m really hoping they bring on someone to solve this. Otherwise they’re on track to be the same as every other tasteless tech company. More on t…

The company is donezo to be honest. Without the huge hold of the cloud and business markets Microsoft enjoys they only have hardware. And besides their excellent laptops you can forget of the existence of any other of their products.

Apple services revenue has gone from 10 to 30 billion within the last 5 years. They are seeing extremely strong services growth.

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Post by drdaeman »

mzajc wrote: post #307
drdaeman wrote: post #296

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There should be a public API, open to any user-designated program (including self-made, without requiring any special hoops to obtain any fancy entitlements), that can act as a "firewall" for all notifications (except, possibly, for few system-critical ones), allowing it to control and modify those as it seems fit.

Applications can interact with notifications on the user's behalf via the accessibility permission - I do this with KDE Connect. I don't know what the limitations are.

On iOS?

Last time I've checked, kdeconnect-ios was unable to read any third-party notifications, not to mention doing anything to them or modifying their text or appearance in any way.

Project readme still says "Notification syncing doesn't work because iOS applications can't access notifications of other apps" (https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-ios?tab=readme-ov-file#kno...) so I think it's still a thing.

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Post by bitpush »

bfrog wrote: post #167

I have a fundamental fear that Apple will lose itself the day it chases profits with Ads. If I wanted Ad spam I would've used Google.

> Apple will lose itself the day it chases profits with Ads

That shipped sailed many years back. Apple runs a highly successful ad network. It is just that most people are slowly starting to realize the true colors of the company.

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