OutdoorAppDeveloper

lkrupp said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

I can personally attest to the fact that Apple has influenced my business activities. As in "We need you to remove a feature that we feel is too powerful for regular people.”

Your street cred is nonexistent here. No one believes a word you write. You’re just a run-of-the-mill Apple hater not worth the effort.

If I hated Apple, I wouldn't waste my time. Apple is a company I love and have for decades. I have loved personal computing for the same amount of time. Apple and other large tech companies are moving in a dangerous direction. They want to take the power of personal computing away from regular people and keep it for themselves. A manager from the Apple App Store told me this directly.

There is a second danger which is that people pick sides far too easily and then refuse to accept any dissenting views. No company, person or group is perfect. All could use some criticism when they do things which harm others. That includes Apple. 

I can personally attest to the fact that Apple has influenced my business activities. As in "We need you to remove a feature that we feel is too powerful for regular people."

The purpose of all this technology is to determine the precise location of everyone. With that information you can do a lot of really useful things like have lights turn on and stay on when you are in a room or set them to a particular brightness and color based on your activity and preferences. You can have robot vacuum robots clean rooms that no one is in. Security systems could alert you to the presence of strangers. The problem with all of this is that having information about everyone's exact location floating around the Internet is extremely dangerous. It could even threaten your life. This is why Apple and other companies working on personal location need to keep that information local to a location and not keep it longer than it is needed for the above mentioned activities. We need a secure enclave for our homes and businesses. It needs to erase its memory constantly. We need to be in control of our most personal information.

Apple's arguments against allowing users to install any software they want on their iPhones sound remarkably similar to AT&T's arguments decades ago against allowing users to add or maintain the phone wiring in their homes or own their phones rather than lease them from AT&T. They said that users would damage the phone network if they were allowed to fiddle with the wires in their homes or buy phones from other companies. They argued that phones were an essential service and far too technical for an average person to maintain. At the time AT&T was a government sanctioned monopoly. It was the breaking up of AT&T's monopoly that led to Apple releasing the iPhone and eventually arguing, like AT&T did, that users shouldn't be trusted to make decisions for themselves.

Exactly. Compare the iPad Pro to the Surface Pro. See what kind of jobs a professional in any field can get done on those two devices. The only thing holding the iPad back is iPad OS and Apple's extremely limited vision.