IreneW

mac_dog said:

Well, duh, compared to not having to actually work or pay for personally data, anything will seem like a loss. Stop whining you little bitches and start competing in the real world like everyone else!

Xed said:

22july2013 said:

IreneW said:

genovelle said:

hackintoisier said:

He’s right. macOS is much more open in terms of how users can install apps, and yet the Mac isn’t crawling with malware, unlike windows. Also, if iOS is opened to allow third party app stores, nothing would require users to download apps from those other stores if they didn’t want to. I’ve had an iPhone since 2007, but I recently started toying with android, and I’ve never used any other App Store besides the google play store even though others exist. 

I think Apple is exerting too much control. For example, why is it that Netflix or any other app can’t tell me where and how to sign up for a subscription (if those apps don’t use IAP)? 

When the iPhone ecosystem was small, Apple’s level of control wasn’t really on anyone’s radar, but as the iOS ecosystem has ballooned to billions of users and billions of dollars of trade, I can see why governments and courts around the planet are interested in how the ecosystem operates. 

Others might disagree, but my view is Apple is in some ways restricting trade by disallowing the existence of other app stores. And the restriction of trade is why I believe it’s just a matter a time before the hammer drops, whether in the USA, or Europe or elsewhere. 

Is he and anyone else willing to put their home and financial future on the line to prove it? Android is the example and it is a horrible idea. 

Well, as he said, macOS certainly works.

Yes, that's correct, macOS works to the point where it has earned a whopping 15% of the desktop market, compared with Windows that has 75%. Perhaps macOS would work even better if it copied the walled-garden approach of iOS.

It always surprises me when people on tech forums make statements like the OP did. The iPhone and iPad are the success they are because of how stripped down Mac OS X and rebuilt it for a mobile computing device with the average user in mind. Far too often I see people commenting about how much better it would be if iOS was like macOS or even the longstanding desire to have iPadOS replace with macOS and yet they never seem to comprehend how Apple didn't invent the tablet or smartphone, yet are now the gold standard for consumer device because of Apple's amazing efforts, not in spite of. If shoehorning a desktop OS and 1970s methodology was going to make a tablet great then the several decades of Windows tablets would be dominating right now.

genovelle said:

hackintoisier said:

He’s right. macOS is much more open in terms of how users can install apps, and yet the Mac isn’t crawling with malware, unlike windows. Also, if iOS is opened to allow third party app stores, nothing would require users to download apps from those other stores if they didn’t want to. I’ve had an iPhone since 2007, but I recently started toying with android, and I’ve never used any other App Store besides the google play store even though others exist. 

I think Apple is exerting too much control. For example, why is it that Netflix or any other app can’t tell me where and how to sign up for a subscription (if those apps don’t use IAP)? 

When the iPhone ecosystem was small, Apple’s level of control wasn’t really on anyone’s radar, but as the iOS ecosystem has ballooned to billions of users and billions of dollars of trade, I can see why governments and courts around the planet are interested in how the ecosystem operates. 

Others might disagree, but my view is Apple is in some ways restricting trade by disallowing the existence of other app stores. And the restriction of trade is why I believe it’s just a matter a time before the hammer drops, whether in the USA, or Europe or elsewhere. 

Is he and anyone else willing to put their home and financial future on the line to prove it? Android is the example and it is a horrible idea. 

Beats said:

I wish Apple could create an ad platform that collects data on-device or “tokenizes” everything and encrypts everything.

For example,

instead of the creepy Google/Facebook model: “Maria lives at 123 E 1st street. Has 2 kids. Works at Food Grocery. Searched for ‘lung cancer’ yesterday. Is usually hungry after work at 6PM needs a pizza ad since her kids said they loved it while Google speaker was listening in.”

You’ll have the Apple model instead:
iPhone user 173@$gh(;:!$! Needs a pizza ad.

That randomized number changes every time. Apple knows nothing or very little and advertiser knows nothing ever. 


I’m not a software tech but that’s the best I can explain the idea.

lkrupp said:

Rayz2016 said:

This happens every five years. 

They announce that they’re going to break with the past, release something that points to a legacy-free future. 

Then a chap from marketing reminds them that if they do that, then they’re going to have to build market share from scratch. 

And then the whole idea gets binned … for another five years. 

Microsoft is trapped in a legacy hellhole they cannot escape. As time marches on Windows gets ever more bloated because of this captivity. Apple has the luxury of just telling the legacy luddites to fuck off. Every Apple blog and every Apple discussion forum is loaded with outraged users livid because their legacy hardware and software no longer perform. The dropping of 32bit compatibility is just one example. Microsoft could never do that. Apple simply tells the legacy crowd too bad, so sad. The kicker is all those outraged legacy types stay with the platform anyway.