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Lots of wishful thinking. If these were allowed none of them would have the effect author claims they would. See Android. 1. There are already alternative mail

by rimliu 6y ago

Lots of wishful thinking. If these were allowed none of them would have the effect author claims they would. See Android. 1. There are already alternative mail clients. Does author think that not allowing any of them being default tehy do not compete on quality? This is the only one I see as the reasonable one, albeit not for the reasons claimed in the article. 2. Uhm, Apple Pay is as frictionless as it can get. I have no desire to keept entering my credit card details into every app which thnks they have a better payment processor. 3. Apple does not "arbitrarily" reject apps. And it's restrictions that bring innovation, not the other way around. Author wants sideload apps, but somehow Apple would still be responsible for the security. Let's see how that works for Android. 4. Just no. I do not want John Doe's app accessing my text messages. 5. Well you wanted the competition in #1, so how about that.

lifty 6y ago
I agree that Apple provides a great experience, and I am an Apple user for most of my computing needs; but Apple's approach uses the user experience stick to squeeze out monopolistic benefits out of their platform when it suits them, and when it doesn't, they ignore user expereince. 1. This is a clear one, and Apple chooses to ruin user experience here. I only use Apple Mail because it's the default app. 2. Me neither. Why don't they do something for payments that is similar to how they treat password managers. A standardised way to treat payment data. 3. Apple does arbitrarily reject apps. They just signed a special deal with Amazon that bypasses the app store rules, for gods sake. 4. I agree, and Apple has come out with good ways of allowing apps to special APIs. 5. Well, what competition is it when someone has to pay 30% from their revenue?
- rimliu 6y ago
  I've been using iPhones for 11 years now and I have never used Apple Mail app. Currently I am using Outlook which is very good on iOS.

by rimliu 6y ago

lifty 6y ago

I agree that Apple provides a great experience, and I am an Apple user for most of my computing needs; but Apple's approach uses the user experience stick to squeeze out monopolistic benefits out of their platform when it suits them, and when it doesn't, they ignore user expereince. 1. This is a clear one, and Apple chooses to ruin user experience here. I only use Apple Mail because it's the default app. 2. Me neither. Why don't they do something for payments that is similar to how they treat password managers. A standardised way to treat payment data. 3. Apple does arbitrarily reject apps. They just signed a special deal with Amazon that bypasses the app store rules, for gods sake. 4. I agree, and Apple has come out with good ways of allowing apps to special APIs. 5. Well, what competition is it when someone has to pay 30% from their revenue?

rimliu 6y ago
I've been using iPhones for 11 years now and I have never used Apple Mail app. Currently I am using Outlook which is very good on iOS.