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  • Samsung trying to fight iMessage chat elitists with response graphic gallery

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    Fatman said:
    I can't stand when an Android user is in a group chat and it defaults to the awfully outdated SMS protocol - it restricts what you can do (for example if you want to drop out or exclude a member, can't control that) . My daughter who uses an iPhone would text a group of her friends, one of which had an Android, so the whole thread becomes SMS based. I really could care less, until you realize that now all pictures & data sent within the group text count against your data plan - believe me it adds up quickly. I told my daughter I'd buy her friend an iPhone just to avoid my data getting hosed every month. Most Android users don't realize the flexibility of iMessage. It truly is a "killer app" that Apple should market more.
    The main issue is not that her friend is having an Android phone, but that Apple decided to revert back to SMS if a  non Apple device is added in the group.  Communication apps and especially group chat apps are preferably device agnostic.The goal of an communication app is to exchange ideas and thoughts within a group of people, the devices are just a technical detail.

    In a country where iOS has 20% marketshare,  the chances that two random persons can communicate with iMessage is 4%, for 3 random persons it drops to 0.8%. This is one of the reasons why in countries with a lower iOS marketshare, iMessage is nothing more than the SMS app for iOS and Facetime is barely used. 

    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Developers say Apple's limitations on location tracking are anti-competitive

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    sflocal said:
    Fortunately, Android has a far, far larger market share so these developers can simply go and mooch whatever personal data they want from Android users.  

    Owning an app developer company for both Android and iOS, I can say that is a wrong for a number of reasons.   
    • Collecting personal data is sometimes necessary for the normal functioning of an app.  Explicit user consent (like imposed by the GDPR in the EU) is the way to go ; Apple crippling the functionality is counter productive.
    • Only one out of 5 apps my company is developing, are eventually profitable.  The profitable ones are profitable because they are available on both platforms.  Business wise it makes much more sense to port an almost profitable app to the other platform than to come up with a new idea that might be failing
    • Some apps only make sense if they are available on both platforms.  I've made a electronic voting app for the general assembly of large organizations. This app  only make sense if all members of the organization can vote.   And in order to make it resistant to spoofing, it is collecting personal data during the registration phase.
    • The App Store is only existing distribution channel for iOS apps, where both Apple apps and non-Apple apps are competing. Because Apple is judge and involved party in the App Store, Apple should refrain from using technology in its own apps while forbidding it in competitive apps.  The complaint of Spotify against Apple Music is exactly about the fact that Apple gives Apple Music an unfair advantage

    IreneWmuthuk_vanalingamFileMakerFeller

  • Apple loses ground to Samsung in European smartphone market

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    saarek said:
    SpamSandwich said:
    flakhammer said:
    I’m not surprised at all, most of the new features come to Europe later than US and we are to pay silly high prices!
    Thank your regulators and protectionist policies.
    For some features that might be part of the problem, but for a lot of other features it's no excuse.

    Pime example, that I just discovered today. If I ask my HomePod to play the top 20 from 1999 it tells me "Sorry, I don't know the historical charts from your country." What the actual fuck?!?!? Apple Music was released way back in 2015, and they still have not bothered to add something as simple as the UK charts to the service? Something so mind numbingly simple and obvious and they just don't bother to do it.

    There are so many examples of Apple just not giving a shit about their users outside of the USA. Frequently we pay more for a much poorer service. There is no excuse for sometihng as simple as the above, the UK is a key market for Apple generating billions of dollars of their yearly income and yet they pull shit like this.
    You are lucky to live in the UK,  it is even worse for the non English speaking countries.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Face ID attention detection security defeated with glasses and tape

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    More factors to consider:

    1. You'd have to wait until the person falls asleep or drug them (like Cardi B does her dates) and wait.

    2. You'll have to hope their iPhone is in their hand or somewhere you can reach without waking the person up.

    the biggest one:

    3. The invader would have to know about this hack in the first place.

    Luckily Apple will have this patched in the coming days so there's another one:

    4. You'll have to pull this off this week!

    #GlassesGate
    Let's apply this to a person who arrives intoxicated (drugs, alcohol) in the police station.
    1) The police has time until the person get sober again
    2) His iPhone fell out of his pockets while being arrested
    3) At least one police officer in the station is reading AI
    4) The person did not upgrade his phone the last few months
    muthuk_vanalingambeowulfschmidt

  • DOJ announces massive antitrust review examining Apple, Google & others

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    radarthekat said:
    cropr said:
    JWSC said:

    The evidence that Apple is not a monopoly is overwhelming.

    Legally, there is no such thing as "an overwhelming evidence not being guilty". Either there is evidence being guilty, either there is no evidence. The latter is sufficient to be declared not guilty by the judge.

    From a end user perspective Apple is indeed not a monopoly. The end user has a choice between a lot of smartphones.

    But from an app developer perspective (and I own an app developing company), the app store is definitely a monopoly. I am forced to use the App Store to distribute my iOS apps. As such this is not an issue if the monopoly is not abused. But Apple is abusing its monopoly by imposing  very unfavorable conditions to the app developer. Not being allowed to make a link to the website of the app developer, is perhaps the most known rule, but there are others that are also impacting: no cross selling, no temporary discounts, ...

    Are you serious?  By your definition Corning should complain too, right?  I mean, if they want to sell cover glass cut exactly to the dimensions iPhones happen to utilize, it’s only Apple that they can sell to.  But wait, Corning can cut their glass to other dimensions, to sell to other manufacturers.  Just exactly like you can compile your apps for Android or for Windows phone or for whatever remains of Symbian phone manufacturers.  You compile your app for a very specific end market controlled by one vendor, knowing beforehand that one vendor is all that exists to access that sub market, and then you complain that the vendor doesn’t allow you access to its customer base around its back?

    Go ahead and argue.  I’ll come up with example after example of where your thinking makes zero sense.  
    What a ridiculous comparison.  People buy iPhones and they buy apps , but they don't buy Corning glass; which is only a component.    If you would come up with a decent argument, I would be happy to argue.

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