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Not just bad. There isn't a single piece of Apple software that is (1) free and (2) people choose to use on iOS, only use because the user is forced to. Photos?
by doctorpangloss 1y ago
Not just bad. There isn't a single piece of Apple software that is (1) free and (2) people choose to use on iOS, only use because the user is forced to. Photos? Forced, sucks. iMessage? Forced, sucks. Apple Mail, Calendar, Contacts? Huge pieces of shit. The App Store, the very gateway into competition, is the shittiest of all, and not just because the 30% fee, but because its discovery is maybe the worst ever made by any catalog-style front end in the world.
At least they opened up the password completion APIs.
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- TechDebtDevin 1y agoYeah, I really don't understand how MS, Google and AT&T get this treatment but not Apple..
- int_19h 1y agoMostly because they don't have 90+% market share in anything.
- pnathan 1y agoApple user software is legitimately awful in a systematic way. Although I like the Chess app. :) Google, interestingly, is much better. I don't know what to say. It's clear that the Internet Ecosystem has a megafauna of Google and taking it out would be an ecosystem collapse, but the other Megafauna are... worse.
- Shank 1y agoIt’s pretty myopic to say that people don’t choose to use Apple software. Not only do many people choose to use the Apple software that comes with their devices, they buy those devices for it.
- Den_VR 1y agoPeople literally buy phones from Apple so they can have a blue bubble in iMessage. Movies carry out social campaigns about how they were “filmed” on iPhone. And there’s no shortage of alternatives on those devices, from WhatsApp to Signal.