rogifan_new

Thankfully I don’t have audio update turned on so mine isn’t bricked.

AB101 said:

DED has been on a roll the last few days.

If you aren't Apple, you are crap!

That’s why his editorials are so boring to read. They’re all the same. And often times they come across a projection. If Apple really was the best why would DED be spending so much time obsessing over and knocking down the competition? Because it makes some posters here feel good?

muthuk_vanalingam said:

rogifan_new said:

Someone needs to call Microsoft out on the BS of showing a device they admit will look different than what they showed off and it will be 12 months before it will ship. It’s basically vapor ware on stage just to get the writers at The Verge to wet their pants.

https://www.gsmarena.com/microsoft_announces_surface_duo__a_foldable_android_phone_with_two_screens-news-39448.php

But then there’s this: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/3/20895268/microsoft-surface-duo-foldable-phone-dual-screen-android-hands-on-features-price-photos-video

avon b7 said:

sflocal said:

As a developer myself, it just irks me how other app developers are whining about Apple's curated App Store.  Look at the cesspool that is Android and it's easy to see why Apple has NOT adopted such an open model.  I find it hard to believe that any app developer worth their weight would complain about Apple's App Store and its policies.  They were probably still in diapers when the "old" way of marketing one's own software independently and hoping that marketing would be enough to actually sell it, and in any decent quantity to make a profit.

Apple makes a lot of money for developers.  If you're not making much - or any - money, it probably has something to do with your app being crap, and not Apple.  The ability to make an app and have it available to hundreds of millions of people with little to no effort by the developer still amazes me to this day.  There is no way I would ever want to go back to the "old days" of going to CompUSA and buying software in big boxes.

Whiners should just go to Android if they want the Wild West.  I'm happy Apple keeps the store to themselves.  To open it up to 3rd party stores would open the iPhone to the limitless security problems that is Android.

No thank you.

The issue is not a curated app store. Apple can have that without question from anyone.

The issue is if Apple's store should be the only store on iOS devices.

We'll see how the different investigations come down on that question. It isn't a given that they will rule against Apple but the question needs to be asked and answered at a 'competition' level.

So if there were other app stores who would oversee them and maintain quality? Would the apps there be following the same developer guidelines and using the same API’s as Apple’s App Store? Would developers be selling apps in both stores? Do Google and Microsoft allow other stores on their platforms? Or is the other store the ability to download directly from the web?

Apple just announced they’re going to allow competing messaging apps to be the default with Siri. I suspect that will happen with audio apps soon too. And I’ll bet within the next year or two Apple will allow users to set default apps. If they do all that I think the complaints about the App Store will fade away. 

kevin kee said:

rogifan_new said:

Which is still less expensive than the HomePod.

You pay peanut you get monkey.

I don’t get the point of this editorial. A better sounding Echo that’s still cheaper than a HomePod isn’t good for Apple. We know HomePod has been a dud so far because nobody at Apple ever talks about it. Cook never mentions it on earnings calls. Yet he brags about AirPods and Apple Watch all the time.