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Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by 29athrowaway » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 2:58 AM UTC

askafriend wrote: post #543

29athrowaway wrote: post #436

Imagine being banned from Facebook due to not complying with the community guidelines and being unable to use your computer. Community guidelines that can change at any moment at any time and are enforced by random people who can make mistakes. A Facebook OS as a daily driver is an idea that is vomitive in every way. Imagine ads that track you eyes and that you cannot look away from. Ads that track your face muscles…

What you wrote makes doesn't sense because Horizon OS doesn't require a Facebook account or any account on social media.

For now

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by talldayo » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 4:34 PM UTC

throwaway21321 wrote: post #798

talldayo wrote: post #284

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> A bit more open than the Apple ecosystem It is not "a bit more open" than iOS, it is a completely different approach to OS development that enables wildly different results. > While theoretically open, the real useful stuff on top of Android That stuff is by no means necessary; I've run Android without Google services for years and it just feels like a normal tablet OS. Again, it is not "theoretically open" but in…

as an apple fan i can assure you this is exactly what I think, I just prefer the results that Apple's approach enables and wish legislators would let consumers choose it as opposed to forcing the results to look more like Android

You can choose. If Apple services are all you intend to patronize, then legislation won't stop you; it does stop Apple from using their dominant position to enforce less competitive terms for their competition. If you depend on Apple's market abuse to use your iPhone, I'll just tell you now; it's time to find a new workflow.

Have you ever used a Mac? It's a great example of what the iPhone will look like, in a few years. You boot it up, log in, and open up the App Store... and it's only junk. Freemium apps with monthly microtransactions, paid trial versions of professional software you have to buy from the web, iPhone games that are barely anything more than a casino with flashy graphics... these are the developers that choose to stay with Apple when they get the choice. They'll be your only bedfellows if you're dumb enough to use an iPhone that only Apple curates.

Re: Meta Horizon OS

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Post by rmbyrro » Sat, Apr 27, 2024, 8:11 AM UTC

genidoi wrote: post #692

rmbyrro wrote: post #663

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Apple and Google have high trust? In what world? In terms of privacy, Apple has more trust, yes, but the daily stream of zero days on iPhones hurt it by a good margin. I won't even start talking about Google's privacy issues...

I fully trust apple photos / g photos, on an iphone. Idk/idc about the "daily 0 days" that you referenced, I do care about being able to know with absolute certainty that my photos will be there 20 years from now.

That's perfectly fine. But if you don't care about privacy, why are you responding to a thread about privacy?