muthuk_vanalingam

foregoneconclusion said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

foregoneconclusion said:

Caveat: this review is coming from a site that thinks the iPad is supposed to be a laptop replacement. 

That is an incredibly wrong blanket statement.

It's generally correct. The most common criticism of the iPad within AppleInsider articles is the software and the criticisms are always centered around comparing either iPadOS functionality to macOS functionality or the iPad selection of apps to Mac apps. Nobody does that with the iPhone. Just the iPad. The most recent M4 iPad review was titled something along the lines of 'Hardware of the Future with Software of the Past'. The points made to support that title were all oriented around negatively comparing OS/apps on iPad to Mac. Yes, the author did make a number of comments about not wanting the iPad to run macOS or not thinking it should be just like a Mac laptop...but in the end the article still boiled down to saying iPad lacks certain functionalities or apps that can be found on Apple laptops. 

StrangeDays said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

avon b7 said:

StrangeDays said:

VictorMortimer said:

Good.

Now give us the ability to install software from any source of our choosing, not just your idiotic app store.

No, because this is a feature not a bug. It’s what’s made the iPhone stone-simple to use, without fear of junk ware or malware or the ills of PCs. Don’t like it? Buy an Android. What are you waiting for? Go, be happy. You’re free now, Yeller!

What has gone before is not always the right way to do things.

The iPhone stopped being easy to use many years ago and other systems are equally not difficult to use. Easy is not the same as being used to something. 

It is possibly correct to say that even Apple knows the situation can't go on forever and is slowly adjusting to a more level (yet imposed) playing field. Better late than never. 

Is there any major market that isn't putting Big Tech (it's not just an Apple thing as some seem to think) under the microscope and taking or evaluating appropriate measures?

What makes a digital mobile platform a success is not the hardware but the apps available for it. If any platform offered solely first party solutions, it wouldn't get far.

Setting yourself up as the only gatekeeper and imposing not only financial rules and regulations but also what kinds of apps are even available and then putting up barriers to things like NFC usage was never to escape regulatory pushback at some point.

'Buy an Android' isn't a valid proposal as it ignores why Apple (in this context) on the hook in the first place. 

A far better proposal would be for Apple to go 100% first party but then not even you would buy into that. And Apple doesn't want it either. That option has always existed but Apple knows what side its bread is buttered on and it very much likes its butter. Better to just comply (even if 'maliciously' at first to see how far it can push things. 

Excellent post. Well said, particularly on the points that i have highlighted in bold. iOS is not easy to use, Apple's smartphone customers have gotten used to iOS, so they find Android difficult to use. Much like people who are used to Windows finding it difficult to use Linux or MacOS.

Dunno what planet you’re on but here on Earth iOS is still easy to use. My 80 year old parents seem to get by just fine. 

Pema said:

I can't begin to tell how chuffed I am at this moment. Needless to say the phone back cover colour will improve my text, pics and all else. NOT. For years now I have been, like most people that I know, fumbling with the text keyboard. And I am a keyboard touch typist on the Mac: 65wpm. On the iPhone I am ending up with silly messages whereby the autocorrect changes my msg from 'i am just leaving now, and I will be there in 15 with just a quick pit stop' to i am boot now and I will be there in 15 with a shriek put put'. And then I have to apologise to the recipient. 

Phone keypads are the bane of all phones. As is security. By far Apple has the best in both which is why I gave up my Pixel phones and switched to the iPhone range. I am sort of happy with most aspects of it, except music and pics and file transfers. The latter is like sitting on the bus wedged in between two indigents - transferring between the Mac and the iPhone - and you would think it would be a cinch as both are made by Apple.

The other is the text keypad. Every time I need to type a long message I need to meditate so that I don't flustered and get annoyed. 

avon b7 said:

StrangeDays said:

VictorMortimer said:

Good.

Now give us the ability to install software from any source of our choosing, not just your idiotic app store.

No, because this is a feature not a bug. It’s what’s made the iPhone stone-simple to use, without fear of junk ware or malware or the ills of PCs. Don’t like it? Buy an Android. What are you waiting for? Go, be happy. You’re free now, Yeller!

What has gone before is not always the right way to do things.

The iPhone stopped being easy to use many years ago and other systems are equally not difficult to use. Easy is not the same as being used to something. 

It is possibly correct to say that even Apple knows the situation can't go on forever and is slowly adjusting to a more level (yet imposed) playing field. Better late than never. 

Is there any major market that isn't putting Big Tech (it's not just an Apple thing as some seem to think) under the microscope and taking or evaluating appropriate measures?

What makes a digital mobile platform a success is not the hardware but the apps available for it. If any platform offered solely first party solutions, it wouldn't get far.

Setting yourself up as the only gatekeeper and imposing not only financial rules and regulations but also what kinds of apps are even available and then putting up barriers to things like NFC usage was never to escape regulatory pushback at some point.

'Buy an Android' isn't a valid proposal as it ignores why Apple (in this context) on the hook in the first place. 

A far better proposal would be for Apple to go 100% first party but then not even you would buy into that. And Apple doesn't want it either. That option has always existed but Apple knows what side its bread is buttered on and it very much likes its butter. Better to just comply (even if 'maliciously' at first to see how far it can push things. 

charlesn said:

darkvader said:

Dead_Pool said:

Many have no idea how close Apple was to going under when the iMac was released. There was virtually no chance it would survive in the face of the onslaught by industry-standard Windows, which had finally been able to copy the Mac’s ease of use after more than a decade of trying. Today, Apple is arguably the most powerful company to ever exist. Truly unbelievable, and all thanks to one man: Steve Jobs. 

All of that is complete bunk.

Apple was in no danger of going under.  Apple was consistently profitable, had a huge chunk of cash in the bank, and was making far better computers than everybody else.

Where Apple was struggling was with the development of the next generation operating system.  The NeXT purchase made sense for picking up a good UNIX-based OS, but sadly came with Steve Jobs, the man who was very justifiably fired from Apple in the early '80s.  Had Amelio been slightly more competent the first thing he'd have done after buying NeXT would have been to fire Jobs again, or at least contain him to the marketing department, with no influence on computer design.

Oh, and Microsoft didn't approach Macintosh ease of use for another decade and a half.  The ONLY release they've ever had that came close was Windows 7, what they had in the '90s was absolute garbage.  I know there were people at the time saying things like "Windows 95 = Macintosh 87" but the reality was very different, Win95 was still ultimately a shell on top of DOS.

Vader, I always look forward to your fact-free fiction! Your posts can be counted upon to give me the biggest laughs of the day. Thank you for that!