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IDK about making their own hardware, but it is weird to me that people complain and then continue to buy iPhones and develop for iOS. If developers and users mo

IDK about making their own hardware, but it is weird to me that people complain and then continue to buy iPhones and develop for iOS. If developers and users moved to Android, Apple would change. Is Android really so bad that people feel forced to use iOS?

loloquwowndueo 3y ago
Yes it is. Smirk aside, yes I have tried Android devices before and I find them basically unusable so iOS it is for me. Not in the EU so these changes don’t affect me, that may play a role.
- ufocia 3y ago
  Funny. That's how I feel about iOS. I have an issued iOS device that I almost never use because the UI is unintuitive to me. I guess there are 10 types of people in this world. Those who like the iOS UI and those who don't.
  - loloquwowndueo 3y ago
    Correct :) it’s definitely a matter of preference. If your preference is shallow enough that you can switch depending on which of the two companies is being more evil today, that’s fine - but for the majority of people, which OS works best for them is a very deeply ingrained preference that’s not so easily tossed aside.
szasamasa 3y ago
millions of users have iPhones so developers MUST deploy there therefore competition MUST be forced because (it is actually a deeper question, my microeconomy professor told us monopoly makes profit and it is the potential source of innovation, in perfect competition there is no innovation money) because it favors us consumers in the long run not just because products become cheaper but monopolies also suppress innovation I guess Apple was innovative and created monopolies but they should innovate from monopolistic profit and create new monopolies and let old ones gently fade away in competition... plenty of big companies become stagnant actually Apple is withholding web innovation and plenty of cross platform innovations never were born in the last decade... nowadays even single developers can create great cross platform products via web tech Apple could have innovated in web instead of withholding it and they would have the best web browser and they could deliver apple products on all OS strategically it is a very bad decision to try to do the same over and over again (vision pro, closed walled garden) they misjudged browsers, electric cars I mean face id and optic id and eye tracking is great but we live in a world with chinese and south koreans who copy like hell or a company that is even called meta... apple is nobody in AI too... no cloud business what else did they miss that steve has never had?
- endisneigh 3y ago
  Your premise is wrong. There are plenty of exclusive apps on both platforms and you can easily make a living only supporting just one.

loloquwowndueo 3y ago

Yes it is. Smirk aside, yes I have tried Android devices before and I find them basically unusable so iOS it is for me. Not in the EU so these changes don’t affect me, that may play a role.

ufocia 3y ago
Funny. That's how I feel about iOS. I have an issued iOS device that I almost never use because the UI is unintuitive to me. I guess there are 10 types of people in this world. Those who like the iOS UI and those who don't.
- loloquwowndueo 3y ago
  Correct :) it’s definitely a matter of preference. If your preference is shallow enough that you can switch depending on which of the two companies is being more evil today, that’s fine - but for the majority of people, which OS works best for them is a very deeply ingrained preference that’s not so easily tossed aside.

szasamasa 3y ago

millions of users have iPhones so developers MUST deploy there therefore competition MUST be forced because (it is actually a deeper question, my microeconomy professor told us monopoly makes profit and it is the potential source of innovation, in perfect competition there is no innovation money) because it favors us consumers in the long run not just because products become cheaper but monopolies also suppress innovation I guess Apple was innovative and created monopolies but they should innovate from monopolistic profit and create new monopolies and let old ones gently fade away in competition... plenty of big companies become stagnant actually Apple is withholding web innovation and plenty of cross platform innovations never were born in the last decade... nowadays even single developers can create great cross platform products via web tech Apple could have innovated in web instead of withholding it and they would have the best web browser and they could deliver apple products on all OS strategically it is a very bad decision to try to do the same over and over again (vision pro, closed walled garden) they misjudged browsers, electric cars I mean face id and optic id and eye tracking is great but we live in a world with chinese and south koreans who copy like hell or a company that is even called meta... apple is nobody in AI too... no cloud business what else did they miss that steve has never had?

endisneigh 3y ago
Your premise is wrong. There are plenty of exclusive apps on both platforms and you can easily make a living only supporting just one.