Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat
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On machines where it's trivial to do so (such as pcs), how many real life users (as opposed to forum haunting online geeks) will install another os?
It's not that trivial
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TBH Mac’s bootloader is pretty open so you can install whatever. There’s a nice distro named Asahi which you can spin up in like 5 minutes.
The Mac bootloader (and for now, who knows about the future). But what about iPhones and iPads?
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Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat | Proton
Apple's latest proposal to comply with the DMA is just another attempt to cheat users and developers. We explain its convoluted terms and why they're no good.
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I don’t know. I understand some good devs are paying the price, but…
Here in US apps are allowed to external links. Before I was opening and app, subscribing and canceling in the seam month if I wanted
Now DAZN (sport streaming) is forcing users to give 30 days notice. So if you use for a day. You need to pay 2 months.
I would prefer to pay 30% more than 100% more to use DAZN for a single month.
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RtJ called it out years ago:
- Lie
- Cheat
- Steal
- Kill
- Win
(everybody's doin' it)
People are made that way, I don't understand why everyone hates corporations so much.
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They have been this way from day 1. They called it "end to end control".
They at some point boasted that their stuff can be used without hoops and intentional impediments. In Hypercard and such times.
It seems crazy, but they even paid authors of kinda sci-fi or futuristic stories featuring their hardware.
They made it seem they are almost an anarchist company.
They also, which is even harder to believe now, aimed at advanced usage. As in - "works out of the box" and "even a child can use it" and "everything graphical", but at the same time in that spirit, which Hotline and KDX and PureData still reminisce. A user-friendly application which is not dumb.
It's actually useful to see, to understand that modern commercial claims of "user-friendly == dumb" are aimed at nothing else than centralized control and obscure shit under the hood.
