magman1979

Beyond being a shit brand to begin with in terms of reliability, this move will bite them in the ass HARDCORE... Just look at the backlash BMW faced when they tried making services like CarPlay, or worse, heated seats, a "subscription"!

Those execs working at GM need to be put out onto the streets!

Obviously this idiot has never seen the exemption lists of MANY VPN clients, even those outside iOS ecosystem, such as Windows and macOS...

Take Cisco AnyConnect, do you know how many domains are in the default tunnel exemption list that end users CANNOT modify?!?!

The guy making these claims is so full of shit it's not even funny. I have yet to see ONE SINGLE COMMERCIAL VPN service that totally routes 100% of connections via the tunnel, except for my own OpenVPN server I run, which I have setup to route ALL traffic, and it actually does, even on iOS!

This is not isolated to Apple; lots of spikes in reported failures on DownDetector for cellular providers, landline ISP's, Spotify, PoF, stock market apps, etc. This seems wide-spread and not internal to Apple.

GeorgeBMac said:

The user experience for most people is mostly based on Apple's ecosystem.   For most companies it's not hard to duplicate Apple's hardware (or at least come close enough that most users wouldn't know the difference) -- Samsung  does it every year.

But most of the user experience derives from the software and the support and interface structure surrounding the device -- no company can beat Apple as long as they're locked into Android.

The analogy is the companies producing Windows PCs.   They can only set themselves apart by hardware and construction quality.  But that has a very limited impact on the "user experience" -- which mostly derives from software and ecosystem.

I think Huawei would have a MUCH better chance at beating Apple's ecosystem because, as we forced them to do, they have developed their own modern OS and they spend more on R&D than Apple.  But, it doesn't look like they have any intention of fighting that battle.

ROTFLMAO!!! Thanks for my Friday morning FUD laugh!

auxio said:

laurent_g said:

That's an honorable goal that would benefit their customers.

It would truly benefit their customers if they matched Apple's privacy stance.

Uhhh, they're a Chinese company with CCP members within the company as per their laws, what are you smoking???