tundraboy

I hope this finally ends lawsuits that accuse a company that is patently not a monopoly of acting like a monopoly.  Plaintiff lawyers who sell this absurd legal theory to their clients are committing malpractice.

lu99ke said:

TenApplesUpOnTop said:

This is going to be an unmitigated security disaster brought to you by hand-wringing do-nothing self-important politicians egged on by useless "regulate Apple because they don't do things the way I think the should" Android lusers.

Nobody who uses the iPhone wants this. All the whining is coming from people who claim Apple "doesn't allow choice", yet were somehow able to choose a competing platform.

So I guess you believe that Mac OS is an "unmitigated security disaster?" 

I also guess, given your steadfast dedication to only using OS's that are NOT "unmitigated security disasters" for allowing side-loading, you only use Chrome OS as a desktop OS given you cannot "load" apps on to it ( unless of course you enable Linux ). 

PS - I use an iPhone and I definitely want this... just saying. 

PPS - Lusers... I can see what you did there... very clever... sort of.... well... actually, no, not at all.  

Phone scammers steal from seniors by instructing them to download and install apps on their computers that give the scammers access to the victim's funds.  They could not do this on the iPhone because the exclusivity of the iOS App Store assures that all apps are vetted by Apple.  With side loading, scammers can now run the same scam on iPhone owners.

Your point of view is from the very narrow perspective of relatively sophisticated computer users.  Not all iPhone users are at your level.  A less selfish view would consider the millions of people who picked iPhone because they know they can rely on Apple to keep it secure and will now be facing a much greater risk of getting victimized.

Unless you replace your car with a new one every 5 years, the hardware, and thus the software it runs, will be rendered obsolete by cell phones which are on a shorter replacement cycle than cars.  That's why only fools buy built in GPS with their cars.

GM will soon regret this.

Illus1ve said:

grayskyz said:

I love Palm CEO's take:  

“We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” Colligan said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.”

From Day 1 Apple has been trying to make the best phone possible, Not a "decent" phone and there's where all the windows/palm/nokia/blackberries went to die. 

...but led the social-emoji-insta-glossy-hugescreen-selfie-normie-app-y unification madness post-Steve. Wish the iPhone had remained the widescreen iPod and the Internet communicator it originally was and not turned into a huge sterile brick with an equally sterile UI trying to please just about everybody.

Well, it pleased a lot of people.  Just not you.  If you want it to remain a widescreen iPod and Internet communicator, just don't use the other functions.  (Also for the complete iPod experience, don't get a wireless phone subscription; WiFi will still work.)

My AirPods Pro started crackling a little over two years after I purchased them. Genius Bar can 'fix' them by replacing each earbud for $90.  In effect AirPods Pro is a $200 disposable product.  Actually, based on my experience with other Apple earphone products, they are basically as disposable as IKEA flat pack furniture.  In fact, IKEA probably lasts longer.

So, no thanks, I might as well just go buy the cheap no name brand which will be just as short lived.  Apple makes great products but their whole line of wired and wireless earphones, including Beats, are garbage products:  They're quite pricey but don't last that long.