Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

Post by thebigman433 » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:02 AM UTC

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> You can thank Apple for the Lightning connector They did move to USB-C, but the lightning connector was actually a great product, far superior in usability to the Micro-USB, Mini-USB, and whatever other nonsense standards that existed. When Apple wanted to move to USB-C people complained about them "changing standards all the time". There really isn't a move that pleases everyone and even when they do the "right" t…

>lightning connector was actually a great product Almost every Apple lighting cable in my household frayed... https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+Repair+a+Frayed+Apple+Li... >Apple charging cables, such as the Lightning to USB Cable, are easily prone to fraying. Most commonly, this fraying occurs from device usage while charging.

Post by thebigman433 » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:05 AM UTC

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As a user you should be fine with the ability to restrict access to iMessage. Not locked out of it with hardware you own and interoperability dictated by the vendor who also wants you to buy their watch.

Exactly. It's amazing how often the nuance between may and must is missed by Apple fans. Apple should be able to lock down their ecosystem as a default -- plenty of people will be happy to use that default experience. But Apple should absolutely be prohibited from not allowing users the choice of unlocking their own device, for additional functionality, if they choose. It's also glaringly obvious that many of the "fr…

Post by _2d30 » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

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Likely a condition from IP holders to make sure the play is counted and paid for.

Pennywise pound foolish and harming UX at the same time. They could just require that Spotify logs the plays and uploads them on the next connection. Resulting in more plays and more money. But instead they block it for the 0.1% of the time that the watch is lost, destroyed or reinstalled before that sync happens. And people wonder why piracy happens.

Post by protimewaster » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:15 AM UTC

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The ONLY answer is antitrust action from every major government. The trillion dollar companies are so massive that they are impinging upon every category of business that touches them. And they're so massive that their sinnew and tendrils touch everything under the sun. Mobile computing is de-facto owned by two companies. It's owned, tightly controlled like an authoritarian government, and heavily taxed. Compared wit…

If you don't like an iPhone, don't buy an iPhone. Don't legislate your consumer preferences on me.

Post by _emacsomancer_ » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:23 AM UTC

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An answer with a catch: I ran rooted android phones for a long time, but have for the past few years been on GrapheneOS, which doesn't require Google Play, but allows you to use it while sandboxing it (so, harm reduction), and it's much less of a struggle now than it used to be. The catch is that, at least currently, GrapheneOS only works on (Google) Pixel phones. [On Kobos:— I agree on Kobo vs Kindle, and like Kobos…

My Kindle Paperwhite 5th gen is rooted and runs KOReader. It's not a great solution - you still have very little freedom, Amazon frequently patches root methods - and you might be waiting months for someone to find a working root method, and if you accidentally update - bye bye, root/KOReader. But it is a solution.