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Oh I totally get all of this and I agree that it's fair to characterize Apple's bent as being UX at the expense of user freedom and that many people _specifical

Oh I totally get all of this and I agree that it's fair to characterize Apple's bent as being UX at the expense of user freedom and that many people _specifically want_ this, but at this point it's overstated as applied to some of these features. For example, default browser - Apple doesn't need Android's complicated system whereby you choose whether this app opens up links of a certain type always or just this once, etc. Apple could just have a setting where you choose your browser. Unless I'm just naive, this should add no overhead in terms of UX. Same applies to email client.

MR4D 6y ago
I wonder[1]. Not disagreeing, and I'm not a systems programmer, so I can image that there are aspects of things to make something truly secure[1] that you have to chase down all these rabbit holes. I look at OpenBSD and see how long it takes them to do something fairly "simple", and use that as a guideline for security development integration timeframes. Of course, OpenBSD isn't backed by a trillion dollar company either. Oddly, I fall into the Mac + Linux camp. I love using MacOS (yes, even Catalina works for me), but I love that doing development/server stuff on Linux is so clean. What both do for me is minimize the brain clutter (and that's one reason I can't grok the idea of doing server development in Xcode). [0] - I don't think you're being naive. Also, being a fan of guys like Krebs on Security makes me realize that doing this right is not so much hard as it is painstaking. [1] - no, I definitely don't think iOS is totally secure, but I think it's harder to screw up as a user than competitors.