A federal judge in the United States has ordered tech giant Google to open its Android smartphones to rival app stores. The order comes after an antitrust case in which a jury decided Google had illegal…
Security, data harvesting transparency (I wouldn’t go so far as calling it privacy lol), predictability, hardware longevity (though this gap is shrinking now), and inter-product integration. Also vendor lock-in lol.
No it isn’t. Apple is still going to only be allowing approved apps/app stores and taking a cut off any sales over a million downloads.
You still won’t be able to just download an ipa file and install it without jailbreaking or using a workaround like AltStore where you have to resign the app using an Apple developer account every week.
Yeah Verizon is trash. I was a loyal customer of theirs for many years and then they literally ruined my credit over $40 after claiming to have fixed the billing error literally 3 times. On principal I will never go back to Verizon.
Thanks for the response! I find it fascinating that video problems were some of your issues, because I have had to support a video player for a website for years now, which has always been horrendously difficult in Safari. Specifically on Safari iOS, caption issues have plagued me for weeks at a time. It’s rare I’ve ever spoken to anyone who cites those kinds of issues as a point of frustration, but I have always known they’re there firsthand. And because it’s apple, people can’t just try another browser. Every other browser is just Safari with a skin.
Holy shit do I just want to be able to sideload my own personal apps on my device without Apple’s approval
Why buy a device where you couldn’t?
Security, data harvesting transparency (I wouldn’t go so far as calling it privacy lol), predictability, hardware longevity (though this gap is shrinking now), and inter-product integration. Also vendor lock-in lol.
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No it isn’t. Apple is still going to only be allowing approved apps/app stores and taking a cut off any sales over a million downloads.
You still won’t be able to just download an ipa file and install it without jailbreaking or using a workaround like AltStore where you have to resign the app using an Apple developer account every week.
Be apple is run by ruthless assholes. Google is a piece of shit too but my God how can people stand iOS?
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Curious what made you switch back to Android?
Yeah Verizon is trash. I was a loyal customer of theirs for many years and then they literally ruined my credit over $40 after claiming to have fixed the billing error literally 3 times. On principal I will never go back to Verizon.
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Thanks for the response! I find it fascinating that video problems were some of your issues, because I have had to support a video player for a website for years now, which has always been horrendously difficult in Safari. Specifically on Safari iOS, caption issues have plagued me for weeks at a time. It’s rare I’ve ever spoken to anyone who cites those kinds of issues as a point of frustration, but I have always known they’re there firsthand. And because it’s apple, people can’t just try another browser. Every other browser is just Safari with a skin.
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