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I have kids, and one of my primary difficulties is limiting their screen time, and to a lesser extent, content. I appreciate having Apple as one gatekeeper that
by pchristensen 6y ago
I have kids, and one of my primary difficulties is limiting their screen time, and to a lesser extent, content. I appreciate having Apple as one gatekeeper that I can trust and learn to operate. I don't want a Wild West, and I consider these restrictions one of the reasons I pay Apple's premium.
- tpush 6y agoThe need to filter out content seems orthogonal to Apple not allowing certain content in the first place.
- sarakayakomzin 6y agois it really Apple's responsibility to watch your children for you? maybe we should have our cars locked down to 15MPH to prevent more accidents too.
- bsaul 6y agoi'm really having trouble understanding how giving the choice to the people that want to to install a different app store is going to change anything to your situation... I'm not for removing apple's store...
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoApple allows Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, and all manner of other games using addictive psychological tactics onto the App Store. If you're more concerned about "gamer-centric" titles, there's also Fortnite and F2P versions of Call of Duty. How is not allowing streaming Xbox games limiting screen time?
- Darmody 6y agoYour kids could now use my linux machine and they wouldn't be able to install or do any harm at all. Apple's restrictions don't matter at all here.
- kyriakos 6y agoGoogle's Family Link allows very granular control over what your kids do with their devices. The the extend that you get a notification if you want for every app they try to install and won't get installed unless you permit it. You can set time limits not just for screen time but on on a per app basis as well. I don't know how this works but from my experience I found that Google's got this one right.