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> Apple will argue that security and/or performance reasons drove their decisions related to browser choice That's true, but odds are they have a lot of e-mail
by doctorpangloss 3y ago
> Apple will argue that security and/or performance reasons drove their decisions related to browser choice
That's true, but odds are they have a lot of e-mails and a lot of employees who can testify to the browser choice decision being driven by lock-in. The iMessage emails were pretty unambiguous with regards to how it is used in an anti-consumer way. (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-android-ecosystem-lock-in-epic-games-filings-app-store-dispute https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...) Similar stuff will exist for everything they do, because they cannot distort the reality that in 2024 their software kind of sucks, and that their customers only use it because they don't have alternatives and Apple prevents those alternatives from being viable.
- gnicholas 3y agoYeah it'll be interesting to see (via discovery) whether Apple has policies like Google's regarding "words not to use".
- snotrockets 3y agoIf a company doesn’t, I’d suspect the competence of their legal dept.
- sanderjd 3y agoYes, but I'd also be surprised by a company's employees doing a universally good job abiding by such guidelines.
- VHRanger 3y agoDo such policies trigger adverse inference or some similar concept?
- khazhoux 3y agoThere’s nothing wrong with having “words not to use.” Companies have to think ahead to some possible lawsuit in ten years where a jury might have a damning interpretation of some minor word choice.
- ChildOfChaos 3y ago"the reality that in 2024 their software kind of sucks, and that their customers only use it because they don't have alternative" That's an extremely hot take. When devices are mostly just slabs of glass and the interface and what is done, is entirely the software, customers are choosing the device based on the Apple software, not in spite of it.
- EasyMark 3y agoYeah this stuff usually ends up "I don't like the interface" when you press people. Which is fine. However my macbooks have been perfectly serviceable and still ticking while my former asus and dell laptops died after a few years right before I switched over to mac laptops and one is 7 years old and still ticking with not too bad battery life. That said I find apple has probably overstepped their social contract as a corporation and it's likely time for a little audit
- ragazzina 3y ago>Yeah this stuff usually ends up "I don't like the interface" when you press people. In Apple Books, you can't decide which books you want to keep on your device. In iOS Storage, you cannot see the largest pictures/videos (you used to be able to do that, they removed it to make people subscribe to iCloud). The iOS keyboard/autocorrect is so terrible it's almost unusable. You can't even set a vibrating alarm on iPhone without enabling vibration everywhere, come on.
- VyseofArcadia 3y ago> customers are choosing the device based on the Apple software, not in spite of it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-teens-dread-the-green-text-bubble-11641618009 https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-...
- ChildOfChaos 3y agoSo the basis of the argument is a different coloured bubble for a messaging application? that is a society issue, not an apple issue, the different messages should be different colours, so you understand the difference.
- khazhoux 3y agoI don’t think those emails are so damning. A company should not be required to write software for its main competitor platform, just to make it easier for people to adopt its main competitor platform.