You can just buy a locked down android phone. There’s a wide selection for you
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Sideloading Bill Would Allow 'Malware, Scams and Data-Exploitation to Proliferate,' Says Apple
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Exactly how does buying a locked down android phone allow me the same experience that Apple currently offers? I'll wait, this should be good.
Then buy an iPhone, and do not sideload apps.
I did and I don't. Now you guarantee me that alt-stores and alt-payments will not change my experience at all.
Just ignore these temptings and you're good to go.
Apps come and go from the app store even without alternate app sources. Just pretend any app that might leave (which I predict will be basically none) just went out of business or got banned by Apple.
Nobody can.
For example -
- Your experience of Apple apps may improve, as Apple will actually have to try and win users by making individual apps good rather than anti-competitively relying on forcing them on customers.
- You may find that the broader online market for all websites stops doing as much proactive censorship attacking minorities such as sex workers because they don't have to be afraid Apple will arbitrarily turf them out of the store for no reason.
- You are likely to find that apps can offer sensible upgrade pricing models rather than clumsy subscriptions now that they are not reliant on Apple's failure to execute these things.
Is there any particular app that bothers you? Or you just like to think of most doomsday scenarios.
I don't find any of those scenarios as "doomsday", they are all quite probable, reasonable suggestions for what will follow Apple being forced to allow alt-stores and alt-payments.
Might be. And there is post #833 with slightly different scenarios, which you also might consider possible.
Anyone who is pro-side loading is a crypto bag holder who wants ransomware attacks to happen on massive global scales.
They have run out of suckers to buy magic beans and the only way they can get more money into the system is crooked politicians, ransomware attacks and low quality humans like Paris Hilton.
They have run out of suckers to buy magic beans and the only way they can get more money into the system is crooked politicians, ransomware attacks and low quality humans like Paris Hilton.
1) My experience with Apple apps is fine, I never questioned that experience. My issue is with the degraded experience I am likely to have under fragmented stores. Exactly how is Apple forcing apps on users? I can use whatever app I want.
2) If this is your over-worded way of allowing pr0n apps on the Apple store I support that, it's just not on my radar, *******.com works on iOS devices just fine. Now that being said I would appreciate it if Apple did not play the part of parents, allow the pr0nz and weed apps. On this we agree, its just not super important to me.
3) LOL! Apple has nothing to do with the freemium model. I am sure they would be quite pleased if everyone charged for apps. We wouldn't be in this micro-transaction, data harvesting mess if the general public didn't want everything for free. This has nothing to do with Apple.
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You need to go undercover and see what they want. I've been doing it for 5 years.
They want full access to your phone, your personal data, your finances. They sell you the idea of freedom but that is not their end goal.
Ok, you're going off about totally unrelated stuff
Let's move from your crypto and ransomware concerns
(I hate crypto FTR - would love it flat out banned)
You know clearly what I meant. Stop getting into technicalities. I default to Mac because that is all I use.
"iOS market share" is an interesting argument because Apple fanatics (and Apple themselves) use the argument when it suits them that they don't have the market share people think they have.
It's really not. I'm suggesting a change that improves my experience and doesn't affect yours. You're suggesting one that degrades my experience and doesn't affect yours. Very different.
But he's part of Apple's righteous brigade of light-bringers who are fighting against the underworld of cyptoscams and ransomware. Is it possible he's been a double-agent this whole time? ?
And sideloads big time at night when nobody's watching.
You suggested that I should "write off" apps that choose to leave the Apple app store for an alt-store as banned or discontinued by Apple. In my book that degrades my experience.
I get it, those that want a different experience than Apple currently offers are fine with degrading the experience that most of us enjoy currently, just be upfront about it, don't act like this legislation is in everyone's best interest because it isn't.
The difference here is that the alt-store, alt-payment crowd have other options. Those that prefer the walled garden, single source market have no other option and if your crowd has its way we never will because it will be legislated into extinction.
He also said a year earlier that he disagrees with private currencies.
Try not to use someone's name to shill. What a billionaire toys with shouldn't have anything to do with the rest of us.