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Customers don’t “have to be treated like children”. An Apple device is an option you can choose if you want that extra layer of blanket protection. That’s the w
by zaroth 6y ago
Customers don’t “have to be treated like children”. An Apple device is an option you can choose if you want that extra layer of blanket protection. That’s the whole point of having choices in a competitive market.
You get to choose in a competitive market which device you want to buy.
This attempt to try to force Apple to change how they do business is eliminating a key differentiator and therefore removing the ability for a consumer to choose this approach.
- gambiting 6y agoHow so? Again, the key word here is - "choice". I believe a customer should have the choice to unlock their own device and install whatever software they want on it. How is having that choice eliminating a key differentiator? Most people will never untick that box and will enjoy exactly those benefits of Apple devices that you're talking about. I am of an opinion that every consumer should have such a box available on their devices, should they wish to use it. It shouldn't be possible to trade this ability away with a software licence. And not giving people that choice in the first place is what I meant by saying "customers are treated as children" - because children don't get to chose, adults do.
- valuearb 6y agoApple shouldn’t have to complicate the security and consistency of their device for people who don’t value it. You have a choice, it’s called Android.
- withinboredom 6y agoSome of us have been buying apps in the app store long before Android existed. It's not easy to throw those apps I've used for over a decade away, just for "choice." Obviously, if I could take my app licenses with me, there would be an argument that I had a choice. Being that I can't, there's just an illusion of choice.
- NickNameNick 6y agoWhile I agree with the rest of your comment... The app store launched in July 2008, and the G1 came out in September that same year. Two months doesn't seem like a big opportunity to buy apps 'long before Android existed'.
- withinboredom 6y agoGoogle play didn't launch until October of that year, you can spend quite a bit of money on the app store when you're a bored soldier in Afghanistan.
- dwighttk 6y agoA lot of those 12 year old apps still run and you use them enough to not switch to a different ecosystem?