shareef777

aderutter said:

Well Apple should not allow Epic back regardless.

Other than that, I hope that Apple adds a new app-store rule stating that apps that use in-app purchases other than Apple-Pay cannot be free to download.

I suggest a minimum purchase of $4.99 of which Apple get the usual 15%/30%. Apple needs to recoup it’s costs somewhere.

Wow, did you even read what you wrote before posting it!?

sflocal said:

JohnDinEU said:

Apple (and Google) are way too strong for anyone’s liking, incl the App Store. I remember the old days where Steve was on every platform to complain about, mostly, Microsoft. These days it’s Tim’s shop that stops every competition and we the consumers are paying for it (sometimes with our lives). Of course there need to more places to get Apps, or like in the old days, download directly from a website. The argument that Apple keeps us safe is since two weeks out of the window anyway because Journo’s and political activists were killed because Apple was sleeping at the wheel. 

First post and all you do is spew nonsense.  Go troll elsewhere, or at least try doing a better job than doing some kind of revisionist history.

dee_dee said:

I’m a pretty big Apple fan, but when someone pays $1000 + for a phone, they deserve the right to do what they want with it.  I will still use the App Store, and I’m sure lots still will.  But if someone wants to side load god knows what and is fine with the risk then go right ahead. 

You already can.  It's called "Jailbreaking".  Apple has no obligation to make it easy to do it.  If you side-load a Trojan-infected application and it bricks your iPhone, I guarantee the first thing you're going to do is play stupid and walk to an Apple store and pretend that it "just stopped working".  I lost count of how many news articles came out back in the day about some severe iPhone malware and criticizing Apple's "security", only to read in the fine print that it was a jailbroken iPhone.

Even Cydia is barely the hanging on since there is little people realized there is little to no need to jailbreak anymore.   

RE: warranty, let’s not act like Apple is an angel here. How many class actions had to be made to force their hand in fixing defects!? Or what about including water sensors on a device that’s touted to be water resistant? I’ve had a warranty claim denied because my phone got splashed on as I used it by the pool. My fault for mis-understanding APPLE’S interpretation of IP68.

Ive had another phone drop battery health to 82% after 6mo, and again, that’s “adequate” to Apple.

Even Apple’s App Store isn’t all that. I’ve seen companies rebrand after getting abysmal ratings. They don’t do much other then adding an S at the end of the name and change the color tone of the icon. Apple is good with that, so long as they get their 30% cut.

StrangeDays said:

shareef777 said:

All that talk and no mention of price and/or the number one HomeKit enabled shades (IKEA).

I’ve got 10 of the ikea shades. Installed 5 in January and another 5 a few months later. At $150 each, there’s no competitor insight that can match them. Absolutely love the set. We don’t open them very frequently so we only lost 5% of battery in a couple months. At this rate they’ll last two years before I have to go around and start charging them.

Good to know. Last time I looked into automated shades they were in the $500+ range, but I have larger windows from an old house, size may be atypical or something.

They’re the Fyrtur ones and they come in sizes up to 48” wide. They’re also very simple to install and configure.

All that talk and no mention of price and/or the number one HomeKit enabled shades (IKEA).

I’ve got 10 of the ikea shades. Installed 5 in January and another 5 a few months later. At $150 each, there’s no competitor insight that can match them. Absolutely love the set. We don’t open them very frequently so we only lost 5% of battery in a couple months. At this rate they’ll last two years before I have to go around and start charging them.

Google heavily underestimates people’s willingness to save a few bucks. They can be forthright with them that they lose Gmail access by opting out and most will just opt in over paying for services they get free today.  Every android user I know is aware of the privacy implications, they just simply think it’s cheaper to stick with Android.