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nhughes said:

Happy_Noodle_Boy said:

This temper tantrum aged well.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/04/23/apple-burns-early-adopters-loyal-customers-by-making-349-magic-keyboard-incompatible-with-2021-129-ipad-pro

mjtomlin said:

Was a typical knee-jerk reaction from over-entitled people who can’t wait to check if the issue is actually something to worry about. 

It was Apple itself that told us that the year-old keyboard would not work with the new 12.9” iPad Pro. Not a “knee-jerk reaction” or “temper tantrum” at all — we were merely responding to what the company said. If Apple had said this up front instead — that the old keyboard will functionally work but may not close perfectly — we and many others would not have made a peep. 

This! But some people love to kowtow to Apple anyway. 🤦‍♂️ 

AppleZulu said:

darkvader said:

Once again, Apple's illegal abuse of their monopoly on app installation rears its ugly head.

As with the Epic case, the solution is obvious.  It's past time for Apple's unlawful app store monopoly to be broken.

If you want to remain within Apple's walled garden for all the apps you install on your iPhone, that's absolutely your right.  But Apple is abusing their app store monopoly to force everyone with an iDevice into that walled garden, and that is an abuse of their monopoly.

It's past time for governments to step in and force Apple to allow users to load apps from any source of their choosing.

If you don’t want the walled garden you have the choice to buy a different device. 

Breaking the App Store would break the entire system. Particularly for the bigger developers, if they can opt out, they will, and with them will go the security and quality protections that the walled garden creates. 

I chose iOS devices specifically because I want that system. Breaking that system doesn’t enhance consumer choice. You already have the option to get your open system by buying an android device, so you gain nothing by forcing it on iOS.  On the other hand, I would lose my choice, because you’ve broken and taken away the option that I wanted. 

So no, it’s not “past time” for you to use governments to take away the thing I want just so you can make it into the same lousy crap as the competitor I didn’t want. 

Before iOS every OS allowed you to install other apps. MacOS and Windows particularly did as well and odds are you’ve been using (and still are) one of those two for years before and after iOS came along. As for the “walled garden”, that’s been breached years ago. Just read up about the multitude of phony anti-virus and VPN apps in the App Store that have bilked millions from users.

What’s wrong with having choice? By allowing a 3rd party store what does that take away from you? Odds are large companies will remain in the App Store just because a large number of users won’t bother with any other store. You seem to be for choice, but chose the option that limits choices!?