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Why does half of HN seem intent on ruining the iPhone for the rest of us? The explicit selling proposition of the iPhone is that it is a closed ecosystem. I an
by laingc 5y ago
Why does half of HN seem intent on ruining the iPhone for the rest of us?
The explicit selling proposition of the iPhone is that it is a closed ecosystem. I and my family buy it for precisely this reason.
If you want a choice about what you install, you can have it! It's called Android, and hundreds of phone manufacturers are lining up to sell you a compatible handset. Leave us with the one phone manufacturer who has managed to reliably deliver a mostly safe and secure handset.
- m4rtink 5y agoAnything legitimizing loss of user control over hardware and peddling proprietary walled garden as something good and desirable is simply immoral, dangerous for the future of Humanity and should not be legal.
- 8note 5y agoThat's not why my family bought iPhones; they shouldn't be stuck with anticompetitive app store practices because they have iPhones. Eg. My mother can't use any apps because she doesn't trust apple with her credit card number, and since you can't use the app store for free apps without a credit card, she uses no apps on her phone
- ThatPlayer 5y agoBecause at their size, developers cannot ignore them, and Apple is hurting developers by forcing their rules on them. That's what it means to have monopoly power or dominance as this article calls it.
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- Apocryphon 5y agoWhy do you have such little faith in Apple, to think they cannot provide a safe and secure handset with a semi-open ecosystem?