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Stop tending other peoples' gardens. Especially trillion dollar companies' ones. No sympathy here, we all know the drill by now.
by mdoms 4y ago
Stop tending other peoples' gardens. Especially trillion dollar companies' ones. No sympathy here, we all know the drill by now.
- clintonb 4y ago> Stop targeting the two largest mobile platforms to gain customers and revenue. That’s my paraphrasing of your statements. If the customers are in the garden, you have to go to the garden. That’s easier than building your own.
- gcheong 4y agoI will the day the US gets serious about cracking down on monopolies and I have several gardens to choose from or can start my own.
- throwaway14356 4y agoIts just rude to support such eco system. As an experiment i tried an iphone4. Apple support helped register an account which didnt work any more for multiple reasons, the app store works just fine, you just cant get any software. Clicking on download does dl the apps but then it says you must upgrade your OS. There is no software! Developers say they have a version for it but you may not install apple says. What kind of deal is that? Its a good device, it could have all kinds of applications.
- scarface74 4y agoThe iPhone 4 is not a “good device”. It’s 3G only and the networks have already announced that they are completely shutting down 3G networks by the end of the year.
- ratww 4y agoSure, but it could still be used as a wifi-only device. I have an old iPhone 8 that I keep around for music and streaming to a TV.
- scarface74 4y agoAnd an iPhone 4 running iOS 7 can still stream your personal music collection that you can either sync via iTunes or download on your phone. iWorks still works on my first gen iPad.
- seba_dos1 4y agoOnly some networks. I'm not worried that 3G will stop working where I live anytime soon.
- throwaway14356 4y agoit was revolutionary at the time. It doesn't need a sim to be useful, it needs software. Lots of software exists but new things are also an option. say, what does a video doorbell with a screen cost? Reducing the functionality to a single thing it would do better as a proverbial alarm clock than my flagship phone where i cant seem to figure out how to kill all sound except from the alarm.
- amelius 4y ago> Stop tending other peoples' gardens. Especially trillion dollar companies' ones. Meanwhile, Apple built their castle in TSMC's kingdom ...