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I mostly agree with you. It’s sad. The only thing I disagree is that iPhone, while closed, is really important piece equipment in your life. It’s got your walki

I mostly agree with you. It’s sad. The only thing I disagree is that iPhone, while closed, is really important piece equipment in your life. It’s got your walking gait, browsing history, photos, videos, notes, passwords, social media accounts, health records, bank info, geo location, driving habits, where I work and how I commute, where I jog, etc. It’s ridiculously dense. This kind of a device didn’t exist in the year 2000. So, while 90’s tech would be awesome on the surface, I am glad Apple is in the driving seat to manage my phone’s security. App Store is amazing, shitty software that spies on you doesn’t make it through (chrome extensions anyone?). Treat 30% as a privacy fee. You’re glad there is a T2 security chip on your device. And you’re glad Apple pays $400k a year for several top notch security engineers that work there. This cannot be achieved by a bunch of Winamp hooligans and open source crusaders. Replace Apple with your fav phone manufacturer. Everything else, I agree. The internet has become a pile of shit.

anthk 6y ago
>It’s ridiculously dense. This kind of a device didn’t exist in the year 2000 Pocket PC's existed.
- spectramax 6y ago
  Did they have a camera? Gyro, magnetometer, accelerometer? Did it contain my call history? Did it know where I am? Totally unfair comparison.
  - anthk 6y ago
    Some recent ones bundled a GPS unit, and they were not blent with smartphones until 2008? but they where good enough. You talk as if before the iPhone we had -nothing-. And that's not true in any sense.
echelon 6y ago
If the W3C had focus, we could have developed a cross-platform native application runtime that worked over HTTP. You could visit a website and a lightweight, sandboxed app could be downloaded. Google kind of did this with "Android Instant Apps". It'd have all the same permissions and sandboxing guarantees that apps distributed over the stores do. The OS could even collect telemetry on the kind of requests these apps made to help quash bad actors. It might have even prevented Javascript from growing into what it is today. We'd have a strong division between what is app and what is document. (I'm not bashing the Javascript/frontend folks! I just wish we'd had a dichotomy rather than stuff everything into HTML.) I think WASM might stand a chance of doing some good here. It'd be nice if there was agreement between Apple and Google to build a cross-platform device SDK. They won't. We need to defend HTML and our browsers from growing into the Frankenstein's monster Google is pushing for. If we lose that, we lose the war.
pantalaimon 6y ago
> shitty software that spies on you doesn’t make it through (chrome extensions anyone?). Treat 30% as a privacy fee. https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x4E.html https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x4E.html

anthk 6y ago

>It’s ridiculously dense. This kind of a device didn’t exist in the year 2000 Pocket PC's existed.

spectramax 6y ago
Did they have a camera? Gyro, magnetometer, accelerometer? Did it contain my call history? Did it know where I am? Totally unfair comparison.
- anthk 6y ago
  Some recent ones bundled a GPS unit, and they were not blent with smartphones until 2008? but they where good enough. You talk as if before the iPhone we had -nothing-. And that's not true in any sense.

echelon 6y ago

If the W3C had focus, we could have developed a cross-platform native application runtime that worked over HTTP. You could visit a website and a lightweight, sandboxed app could be downloaded. Google kind of did this with "Android Instant Apps". It'd have all the same permissions and sandboxing guarantees that apps distributed over the stores do. The OS could even collect telemetry on the kind of requests these apps made to help quash bad actors. It might have even prevented Javascript from growing into what it is today. We'd have a strong division between what is app and what is document. (I'm not bashing the Javascript/frontend folks! I just wish we'd had a dichotomy rather than stuff everything into HTML.) I think WASM might stand a chance of doing some good here. It'd be nice if there was agreement between Apple and Google to build a cross-platform device SDK. They won't. We need to defend HTML and our browsers from growing into the Frankenstein's monster Google is pushing for. If we lose that, we lose the war.

pantalaimon 6y ago

> shitty software that spies on you doesn’t make it through (chrome extensions anyone?). Treat 30% as a privacy fee. https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x4E.html https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x4E.html