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There's absolutely no guarantee current apps will run fine - Apple regularly adds new restrictions and API changes which break existing apps. They also tend to add a lot of new bugs every release which need to be worked around.
Has Apple ever added a major breaking change one day before release of new iOS version?
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> 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 are you really saying you would pay higher prices because you can' t press the "no" button and never visit the same website again?
Along with every time I have to press OK to the “we used cookies” dialog, using the web is already like a “punch the monkey” game.
But bad websites are not something we are going to get rid of using only iPhones...
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many developers have really no choice (at least not individually). They don't really have the means to vote with their wallets, as foregoing the whole iOS market is.. not a choice. What EPIC is doing is trying to rally people on their side of the fight. This is the same reason why people (workers) have unions, in the traditional job market. It's not really comparable because developers are not workers, but there are…
Epic doesn’t care about anything except for their own profits.
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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.
Maybe she's smarter than us all...
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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
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you also have largely the same OS and hardware architecture that you did in 1999
Microsoft takes backward-compatibility as seriously as Apple takes product aesthetics.
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safari is enough and has enough bugs to be a totally good vector for malware The real security issue is: if a bug in Safari is found (it happens quite often) users cannot use another browser in the meantime.
> has enough bugs to be a totally good vector for malware Not for most people.
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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.
This answer is wrong on so many levels... I don't know why Apple is allowed to keep other browser engines out of their system, but probably just because the relevant people just don't understand that the Chrome/FF/etc. on iOS are just a Safari with a different UI and that it gives Apple about half (depending on country; in the US probably more) of the mobile browser share and users just the chance to either use Andro…
The conversation is 100% about how much influence Apple should permit Google to have over the evolution of iOS.
Maybe I am missing something, but iOS 14 has had beta versions out for developers for months; I had been running iOS14 and Big Sur for testing for weeks. Apple has always had developer previews and at some point, when mostly stable, they often release public previews to get a few interested users involved in testing as well. They've been working with developers for a long time on the new App Clips functionality and t…
Past major iOS releases have usually given about a week between the release of the final build to developers (with app submissions opening at the same time) and the release to the general public. This gives developers time to validate their code against the final build of iOS and submit updates if needed, allowing plenty of time for App Review to do their thing. This is also the first point where Apple will accept ap…
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Aren't I still bound by a GMail account for login and contact information, so if Google randomly decides to ban my account (see what happened to the viewers of a Markiplier stream), I'm in trouble?
How so? Lineage works without gapps, although obviously you then lose access to those services, including the Play Store.