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Hopefully, enabling that sort of sideloading as a possibility is the end-goal. Like you said, the market impact is obvious; it gives Apple complete and irrefuta
by talldayo 3y ago
Hopefully, enabling that sort of sideloading as a possibility is the end-goal. Like you said, the market impact is obvious; it gives Apple complete and irrefutable control over what kind of competition can exist on their platform. Apple's game-plan seems to be deliberately ruining the iOS experience until regulators give up.
There has been nothing more sad (or less unexpected) than Apple's tragic fall from grace. Maybe they were rotten from the start, but it feels like this squandered golden age of mobile computing is what they'll be remembered for. 15 long years of spooling up the money printers and praying nobody gets loud enough for the regulators to hear. What a sad waste of all our lives.
- metalspoon 3y agoApple was always rotten unless Jobs kicked their ass. Once they kicked Jobs out and he came back to kick their ass again. He was the hero.
- talldayo 3y agoPendulum swung both ways. Since the very beginning, Jobs was lying to Woz for free labor and ignoring his commercial success and professional input. Jobs' demeanor swung from blatantly incompetent to riotously enthusiastic, neither of which were patterns of behavior that improved Apple until his control was so diluted that he didn't matter anymore. No complete account of Jobs can escape his horrible interpersonal reputation. Much as the modern account protests, his history was vitriol and struggle up to the very end. Heroize him at your own risk.