JGIGS
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Read the article. It's coming to iOs eventually as well.
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Netflix Taking on Apple Arcade With Official Games Launch on Android
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Another reason never to watch Netflix ever again! Hit them where it hurts, their pocketbooks!
Mockletoy
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I don’t know. I don’t care. I probably wouldn’t use most of those features, so it would have zero impact on me.
If you want to use your iPhone to prop up a wobbly table, go for it. If you want to replace iOS with DOS and use it to play nothing but DOOM all day, have at it. It’s your phone. Go wild.
It actually is very good especially when bundled into apple one
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jz0309
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dancingonthefence
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Lol, now we have too many consoles and games, but don't know what to play
You do have a choice when choosing the iPhone you know it’s a closed ecosystem. Why wouldn’t you buy one of the many phones created by multiple manufacturers that run android and give your more freedom of sideloading is important to you.
Mockletoy
macrumors 6502a
Windows, Android, and Linux are all much more open than iOS, and they’ve been in use by hundreds of millions of people every day for years without the world ending.
Apple doesn’t keep iOS locked down tight for you and me, they keep it locked down tight because that makes them a great deal of basically free money.
Mockletoy
macrumors 6502a
If I cared about that stuff, I would. But I don’t.
Some people do care, though, and why people get so angry at them for advocating for what they see as improvements in a product they love is quite puzzling to me.
Like I said, if sideloading and competing app stores came to iOS, no one would force you to use them.
jz0309
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Yes, and you show me how you can use Windows without having to run anti-virus?
And Linux from a desktop/laptop perspective is an absolute niche (opposed to the server world)…
You have the choice to go Android I’d that functionality is important to you, there are great phones out there just as good as the iPhone…
We have streaming services from phone makers and online retailers. Biggest mystery is how Facebook doesn’t have a streaming service.
My last window machine didn’t use any antivirus or malware. Never a problem. Use common sense
Mockletoy
macrumors 6502a
Flip it around.
How would it impact you if other people had the option to sideload apps?
Would you feel compelled to do it, too? Would someone force you?
I don’t get it why you’d care if you didn’t plan to do it. I don’t get why you’d care what other people were doing with phones they’d paid for just like you paid for yours.
I don’t care about sideloading. But the thought of someone else wanting to do it also doesn’t make me inexplicably angry.
Because many apple fans bring feelings into it. Don’t hurt my feelings by opening up iOS. Lol
Mockletoy
macrumors 6502a
I never use antivirus on my Windows gaming machine.
You know why? Because I don’t visit sketchy websites and install software whose provenance I’m uncertain of. I’m a big boy. I can manage my own security without some big tech company holding my hand and telling me what’s best for me.
Might something still get through? Sure. Just like all the horrible No-user-interaction-required iOS exploits Apple recently patched.
Mockletoy
macrumors 6502a
I just do not understand that whole mindset.
“Because I have no use for this, it should not exist and anyone who wants it can go 🤬 themselves.”
I mean … why??
Amazing how hard this is for some so-called tech people to understand.
Some people Feelings are hurt by everyone not doing what apple says. Kinda sad tbh
Mockletoy
macrumors 6502a
The thinking seems to be that because there are people in the world too dumb not to stare up at the sky and drown in a heavy rain, the rest of us should never be allowed outside either. For our own good, apparently?
Bingo. Never underestimate peoples stupidity when they bring in emotions into things
Never heard anyone use the word "good" to describe Apple Arcade.Ha! Netflix won’t survive. Good luck. Apple Arcade is way too good.
They are going after PS5, XBOX and other major gaming competitors.
Apple now calls itself a gaming company fighting with Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo
In an earnings filing, Apple has made clear that it believes that it is locked in combat with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, highlighting how important it views gaming on its platforms.appleinsider.com