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It gets more sickening every day. I own every Apple device there is. But there has never been a company more anti-Steve-Jobs-vision than Apple. The seamless ex
by xbar 4y ago
It gets more sickening every day. I own every Apple device there is. But there has never been a company more anti-Steve-Jobs-vision than Apple.
The seamless experience has turned into a my fight against Apple's hatred of their customer.
- 1101010010 4y agoThey're instruments of social control and behavioral management. People will get upset and this comment will probably even get removed (censored), but this is the truth with closed source software from for-profit corporations.
- ksec 4y agoSteve used to care about things like this. And even if he didn’t once it has his attention you know something will be done or at least looked into with a reasonable eye. Now it is nothing.
- lyu07282 4y ago> I own every Apple device there is. I'm not sure anyone really ever "owned" an apple device, at least since the first iPhone or so, it seems to me we kind of redefined what ownership means. Apple owns every device they make, you are allowed to pay for limited and revokable usage rights. You have very limited knowledge or control over most of its proprietary hardware and software. Apple, the phone carrier, the apps you install, all have more, varying control over your device. The kind of freedom Stallman talked about for example has been lost for a very long time.
- Aeolun 4y agoMaybe? I certainly still have more control than on windows.
- d0c_z3r0d4y 4y agoLast I checked, you were still able to install apps on Windows from sources other than the Windows store.
- issafram 4y agoGet an Android phone. It's the bee's knees.
- RetpolineDrama 4y agoSome comments suggest android is effected as well.
- YPPH 4y agoApple stood up against carrier customisation. No custom firmware, boot logos, or pre-installed bloatware. Upgrades occurred when Apple was ready to release them, not years later than carriers had finished their "testing". This was fairly revolutionary at the time. This is definitely a backwards step contrary to that vision of career subordination.
- bhawks 4y agoThe real reality distortion field is that folks believe that Apple (or Steve Jobs) is somehow benevolently pro-user, almost to an extent of sacrificing itself for the users benefit. This never was true, Apple is a company like every other company and it views their customers are simply revenue streams. Apple's pro-user perception is an (amazing) marketing campaign. Would a pro-user company use it's monopoly position to raise eBook prices 20-30% and simultaneously eliminate any competition in the eBook space, on the backs of their users? Apple did exactly this, directed explicitly by Steve Jobs and was forced to pay nearly half a billion dollars and be found guilty of violating antitrust law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc. https://www.techemails.com/p/ibooks-is-going-to-be-the-only-bookstore-on-ios https://www.techemails.com/p/ibooks-is-going-to-be-the-only-... Apple's priority is Apple - and that is the only priority. This is a perfectly reasonable thing too, they are not running a charity. They often build pretty good products, but I think folks are doing themselves a disservice to believe that Apple maintains some kind of user focus moral high ground. They want the dollars in your pocket, and if they can get more of them by acting against you they will do it if they think it's unlikely they will be called out on it.