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The dichotomy to me is in the hardware vs software divide. Apple mobile devices are absolutely luxury hardware. Apple mobile OS/software is... functional to a
by ethbr0 3y ago
The dichotomy to me is in the hardware vs software divide.
Apple mobile devices are absolutely luxury hardware.
Apple mobile OS/software is... functional to a most generous description.
- s3p 3y agoAirDrop? Handoff? Fully encrypted iCloud storage, a first-of-its-kind offering that no other mass market OEM has been able to match? Apple pay leading the market and getting mobile vendors to literally adopt contactless payments for the first time? Mobile video chat that took Google years to replicate? The list goes on. I don't know how one could say their software isn't powerful. It is.
- ethbr0 3y agoShipping features that only work in a first party hardware ecosystem simplifies development a lot. Of those, only Apple Pay has a touch point with non-Apple products, no? And enabling it was more business bludgeon than software feature.