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It does force Apple to change their software and likely hardware to accommodate these things, and the result is likely to be a lower quality product. My experie
by sidlls 4y ago
It does force Apple to change their software and likely hardware to accommodate these things, and the result is likely to be a lower quality product. My experience with Android phones makes me want to avoid that at all costs: I switched to iPhone a few years ago because I was fed up with the garbage quality of the hardware and software even in “top of the line” models. Android phones are inferior in every respect to iPhones. I don’t want iPhones to become like Android phones.
- jchw 4y agoBut we're only asking for Apple to do what they do for macOS and Mac computers on iOS, essentially. Hate to seem dismissive but I really don't understand all of the fear, uncertainty and doubt around it.
- sidlls 4y agoFUD accusations are just gaslighting at this point. Actual experience with real phones isn’t FUD. Phones are not desktops: they’re appliances. They don’t need the same level of customizability or direct user control, and the quality falls substantially when those anti-features are added.
- jchw 4y agoThe reason for a "FUD accusation" is the lack of any reasonable explanation for how the experience would "fall off." The problem with Android would be exactly the same if you were constrained to Google Play Store. The difference between Android and iOS is not that one of them allows sideloading and alternate web browsers. (And also, I viscerally disagree that a smart phone is in any way, shape or form, an "appliance". Appliances exist to serve a specific purpose. The main differentiation between an appliance containing a computer, and a computer, is that the appliance's computer hardware and software exists to drive the main function of the appliance. Smart phones are being used as pocket computers. That's not an appliance.)
- sidlls 4y agoSmart phones are being used as computers in the same sense smart refrigerators are. People don’t “do computing” on smart phones. The apps don’t feel or function the same as a windows or Mac desktop app, they aren’t installed or managed the same way, and people don’t expect them to be similar at all.
- jchw 4y agoWhat's funny is, knowing some younger folks who are not particularly tech savvy, what you're saying people DON'T do with phones is exactly what they do. Install and run programs? Yep. Perform productivity tasks, like edit video or even sketch? Yep. Writing blog posts, browsing the internet? Yep. Playing video games, streaming videos? Yep. My friend. You can fight it, but this is a general purpose mobile computer.