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  • US Supreme Court greenlights lawsuit over App Store monopoly

    n2itivguyn2itivguy
    Clear waste of taxpayer dollars letting this proceed. There are alternatives to iPhones and the App Store. Ridiculous. 
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  • Editorial: Can Apple Arcade level up gaming on Macs and Apple TV?

    n2itivguyn2itivguy
    Apple needs a first-party pro controller that games can develop toward, even if they just bought SteelSeries. I’m definitely excited for Apple Arcade. Just hope it’s not too late as GET —> IAP —> P2W and greed have really tarnished what could’ve been years ago, IMHO. 
    watto_cobra

  • Purged screen time monitoring apps misused enterprise tools, Schiller says

    n2itivguyn2itivguy
    macplusplus said:
    Screen Time is the most useless feature of iOS and it created so much debate. Someone at Apple Marketing (and I'm afraid a very specific someone) apparently thought that putting such a lock in iOS would increase sales allowing parents to buy iPads and iPhones for their kids. Actually just the opposite is true: first this is a feature that will alienate kids to the platform. Second, kids make the purchase decision in most of the cases, if left to parents they purchase cheap Android crap.

    Here is the rationale: would you lock your kids into a room when they misbehave? No... Then you cannot lock your kids into a digital room either. There is already a tried and tested parental control architecture, screen time was not needed.
    I think what you’re trying to say is that parents should lead by example and teach their children moderation. It just didn’t sound like that, so I could be wrong. 
    watto_cobra

  • Purged screen time monitoring apps misused enterprise tools, Schiller says

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    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    The apps only "misused enterprise tools" because Apple refused to provide an official SDK that let the app developers do what the users wanted. Make no mistake this is fully intentional on Apple's part. Apple is very interested in limiting what users can do with their devices. This is why there is no real WiFi SDK, why the Bluetooth SDK is crippled, why apps are extremely restricted when they run in the background or with the screen off, why there are no third part Apple Watch faces, why you can't modify the user interface to suit your needs, why you can't side load apps, why there is no third party app store, why there is no professional mode, why their are no real code compilers on the iPad, why there are no virtual machines, why you can't mine cryptocurrency, why Home Kit sucks ...
    One can get a PC or move to Android for such things. And when things on the device go awry, or the get hacked, or data/identity is stolen, or ransomeware, or, or, or…. 
    watto_cobra

  • Purged screen time monitoring apps misused enterprise tools, Schiller says

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    dhagan4755 said:
    I manage Apple products with a MDM (Filewave). I'm not a big fan of MDM profiles. Considering the way Google manages Chromebooks, Apple should bite the bullet & go all in on managing its own devices instead of giving the hooks for 3rd parties to do it.
    This would be a great fit for their services area. But operations like Jamf may lose big and that wouldn’t necessarily be a good thing. 
    watto_cobra