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As a developer I have vowed to never develop anything for Apple nor buy any of the products. I know my mutiny is like a drop in the ocean for a trillion dollar
by Crazyontap 5y ago
As a developer I have vowed to never develop anything for Apple nor buy any of the products. I know my mutiny is like a drop in the ocean for a trillion dollar company but I strongly agree with GNU stance that Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware(1).
Apple been trying to stifle innovation for profit for a very long time and has been getting away with it. Had it not for the good open-source alternatives I believe computers would just be big dumb bricks with 0 scope of experimentation.
(1) https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html
- arp242 5y agoI have an iPhone SE2 for the singular reason that it's the only phone that vaguely approaches a reasonable size (although still too large for my liking) and isn't the most budget of budget phones. I kind of hate it though :-/ I think it's a bit unfortunate that the GNU page mixes some good points with hyperbolic nonsense, and I don't care much for calling them "tyrants" either; seems a bit much...
- silisili 5y agoI think it's slowly shifting. ios is attractive to developers because people pay for apps. ios is attractive to the masses because, among other reasons, the people who can afford to pay for apps use it. More increasingly, that seems to be changing, thankfully. I just wish the world had a better alternative than Android. It's hard to protest an overstep of Apple by giving money to Google.
- l30n4da5 5y ago> I just wish the world had a better alternative than Android. It's hard to protest an overstep of Apple by giving money to Google. There are at least forks of Android that are open-source. You don't necessarily__have_ to run the Google version of Android. Lineage-OS is one of them, but a few others have cropped up over the years that I have forgotten the names of.