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The #1 reason not to use Apple is their arrogance toward their users. I don't want them to lie to me about my battery, nor make me choose their music over spoti
by talkingtab 8y ago
The #1 reason not to use Apple is their arrogance toward their users. I don't want them to lie to me about my battery, nor make me choose their music over spotify and engage in other customer-hostile policies to make money.
If it were only that simple, sigh. Google is much worse. Apple at least lip sync's privacy, I suspect when it is to their advantage.
I believe Apple just has no clue as to how to create products any more. How much money are they sitting on and and this is the best they can do?
- saagarjha 8y agoApple does neither of these things.
- kbf 8y ago>I don't want them to lie to me about my battery You say that, but you most likely do. Even if you absolutely don’t, the vast majority of users still do, even if they don’t know it. The whole point of software is to at least partly obfuscate what the hardware does, to the benefit of users. Making things easier to use and understand and hiding unnecessary complications is not arrogance towards users, it’s acting in their interest.
- talkingtab 8y agoI meant the thing about throttling the performance because the battery was old.
- mamon 8y agoThrothled performance might midly annoy some of the users, some of the time. Battery lasting less than 8 hours would enrage everyone very quickly.
- valuearb 8y agoFortunately you can choose Spotify, in fact Apple has distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free. And Apple did not lie about your battery, it kept your phone from spontaneously restarting when your battery declined to a pout where it couldn’t generate adequate voltage for the system. Apple just did a poor job of communicating what iOS was doing to prevent this.
- welcome_dragon 8y agoWhat do you mean by "distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free"?
- valuearb 8y agoApple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores. They take 30% of paid app revenues (15% of long term subscriptions). Apple has distributed over 300M downloads of Spotify to iOS users, since Spotify is a free app it hasn’t paid a cent for over 30 Petabytes of bandwidth costs.
- welcome_dragon 8y agoThat's how the internet works ... and Apple is hosting the app only. It doesn't deal with the streaming
- gls2ro 8y agoI don't have too much knowledge about how the delivery of apps in iOS store works, but I could infer that it is not only hosting files. They need at least to keep multiple versions and delivery the one that fits the proper iOS version of the device. And, based on my experience with delivering desktop apps I think there is much more to that. For example I was just delivering one single app to customers and still I needed to allocate time to infrastructure and versioning and automating some tasks and signing the code and much more. I imagine that for an iOS store there is more.
- robertAngst 8y agoThe App store is one of Apples most profitable segments. Let's not act like its philanthropy.
- welcome_dragon 8y agoAnd they don't charge for distribution per se but their cut more than makes up for it.
- bluche 8y ago>to lie to me about my battery What do you mean by lying?
- AsyncAwait 8y agoThey removed the API to get the exact battery capacity/charge.