Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

Post by vaxman » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:14 AM UTC

trey-jones wrote: post #195

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #62

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All in the name of UI cleanliness and simplicity . Like how there's no way to manually trigger the firmware update for the AirPods. You just have to keep them plugged in next to your iPhone and ... wait ... until some magic pixie in Apple's cloud decides it's time to push the update to you. Steve Jobs used to say it over and over again when criticized by angry developers[1] that their main focus will always be users…

I watched the whole video of Jobs, and I enjoyed it and took something away from it. I also don't think that it applies to this conversation. From Jobs's perspective here, App Store developers are also customers. So while he is talking about starting at the customers' perspective, rather than the engineers, I believe he's only talking about Apple engineers. 3rd party software devs that are building the Apple ecosyste…

Post by tracer4201 » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:45 AM UTC

alias_neo wrote: post #91

tracer4201 wrote: post #15

The profane language really isn’t necessary. It would be helpful to understand what portion of apps are negatively impacted by the new iOS version. If it’s insignificant, there’s really no strong incentive for Apple to specifically set a launch date with developers. It’s besides the point by the profanity just weakens the argument. Presumably the iOS beta has been out long enough that developers could have pushed out…

People have different opinions on the use of profanity. It's a language tool, like any other, and I find in my use of it, it expresses sentiment quite clearly, whether that be humour or frustration. The article is the author's speech, it is their choice to use or not use language tools as they desire, but I ask you this. How would you title the article while maintaining the clear and concise form? I don't believe pro…

Post by zeroimpl » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:11 AM UTC

shawnz wrote: post #220

jamil7 wrote: post #30

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Some apps look broken or are actually broken on iOS14.

But it's not necessarily because they use the old SDK that they are broken. And there have been betas available for some time

Post by tekknik » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:17 AM UTC

spiderfarmer wrote: post #267

CamJN wrote: post #233

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No, it's why apple shouldn't allow notifications from the web. People are already drowning in notification spam from native apps. To the point where Apple has added three different ways the OS prompts you to disable notifications. People just allow everything and then get overloaded by all the worthless interruptions.

If Apple would make it so that websites can’t request to enable notifications, but only via manual user action, I’d still prefer that to developing an entire app to fit that goal.

Post by tekknik » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 1:20 AM UTC

arendtio wrote: post #368

the_lucifer wrote: post #312

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Playing the devils advocate here. This browser restriction is what I'd wager is keeping the non-chromium browser market at a substantial proportion.

I am wondering what you are referring to with 'non-chromium' browser market. Typically people don't complain about chromium-based browsers, but about the dominance of Webkit-based browsers (Safari, Chrome, Opera, Edge, etc.) and from that perspective there is more or less just Firefox left. Nevertheless, that is besides the point as the rendering engine is not the sole source of browser differences. I am not saying t…