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>Apple thinks of Unicode as their personal playground Apple has thought of Earth as their personal playground for a long time; arrogance runs deep in their com
by trevyn 9y ago
>Apple thinks of Unicode as their personal playground
Apple has thought of Earth as their personal playground for a long time; arrogance runs deep in their company culture. Steve could get away with it because he was arrogant and right most of the time. Today, ancient & obsolete arrogance is Apple’s biggest flaw, and is causing them to drift more and more out of touch with reality.
- innagadadavida 9y agoYou sound pretty arrogant yourself, is it generational?
- gregknicholson 9y agoApple seems to avoid interoperability wherever they think they can get away with it. Even in really weird ways, like: to install any software on your Apple phone you had to use Apple's music player. (Is that right? I never owned one, and it sounds daft, but plausible for Apple.) Text and video messaging was low-hanging fruit, thanks to XMPP etc not taking off. With that network effect in place, it's a short leap towards a subtly-incompatible text format, so buying Apple's stuff becomes the path of slightly less resistance. I don't know whether this is an aggressive strategy; or whether they care only about their customers' satisfaction and not at all about interoperability.
- earenndil 9y ago> to install any software on your Apple phone you had to use Apple's music player Uh...no? Not sure where you got that from.