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I'm expecting us that come up with something better than "give all computing control to two US companies" Yes this idea has flaws that you're an expert at picking at, but there…

If I'm drunk and give my friend my car keys and ask them to not let me do anything stupid, I'm not giving up my legal rights to autonomy. I don't think this is any different. Legal guar…

Maybe I'm wrong, but I have never seen Apple or Google suggest that someone use the parental control tools on a vulnerable adult person's phone to prevent them from hurting themselves. They …

Well maybe let's start small and cover the people that do first, just to see how that goes. Instead we're starting with all people on the planet, and it will be declared a success because th…

Then why not lock down their devices. Why aren't people using the parental controls on their parents phones to lock it down and own in on their behalf? I don't understand this idea that beca…

Yeah imagine such a wild thing

Just build your own smartphone empire lol

For now, maybe. Like all discussions on freedoms and rights it's usually not about the day to day impact or the average person, if we optimized for the average person, we'd be in a sorry sta…

You mean the people actively building this system? I have to assume it's decently far along for them to make this announcement.

Damn we should just give up on this whole computer thing outright then, seems pretty dangerous. There are plenty of other things we could strip away that would make people much safer than just install…

Wouldn't that launch the browser app and bring it to the foreground? I wouldn't compare that to having full network access.

Agreed, and iOS devs should follow suit too. If the store you're distributing with isn't the best option for you, you should find a better partner.

Sadly they don't specify why that's not necessary with iOS, I'm so curious how that's any different. They need some ID to send push notifications, and Apple keeps those registered …

Isn't that true of any notification system? You're the one setting the payload, you can encrypt it before it gets to Google or Apple.

Right? I'm confused how APNS could do this differently from FCM. At least an Android app could implement push notifications without involving Google. This seems like a dev that doesn't reall…

I think the same is true for when they started using blurs everywhere. They knew Android OEMs would copy it in a worse way and shoot themselves in the foot. That's also why material design doesn&…

Privacy. Except when you want to install software on a computer you own, then Apple has to know about it and approve of it. That's Apple. It's wild to me they would claim privacy as some hum…

That was kind of their whole bet with rebranding vendor lock-in as an "Ecosystem" right? Get people to buy in and make it painful to leave, even when they become shitty.

Can third parties fully replace Apple Wallet functionality? I know NFC is accessible now, but can they do payments?

> However, the lack of the binaries makes the situation with the OS effectively the same. Once the device is EOL it's e-waste. Agreed, I'm definitely disappointed in this. The coupling of…

I'm not sure the release of Google Pixel phone binaries is what made Android distinct from iOS. I'm pretty sure I still cant choose what software runs on iOS outside of Apple saying so, and …

I think a lot of what Apple has added to their App Store in the name of security is really just to get developers to move to recurring revenue models, which in turns makes Apple a lot more money. An o…

I'm curious, how would you say they're more open these days? I've always resisted iOS since I can't do the most basic thing on it which is install software independent of the manuf…

Perhaps the added competition will encourage Apple to improve this, they haven't had any reason to make it better so far.

That's fair, but the point is still that "The Worst Thing Ever" was the online part, which this doesn't do, so the comparison makes little to no sense. I'll check out their wr…

I've seen this article circulating other sites, and it's kind of crazy to compare that headline and the content to the reality of what's happening here. In fact, reading the article now…

Oh that's right, they would upload a hash basically then flag it using whatever criteria they wanted on the server side. I think some of the outrage too was the question of what happens when they…

I'm pretty sure what Apple proposed was an offline system for scanning, but any matches would be submitted to them. This is just the offline parts, and apps can choose to use it to detect nudity …

> what differentiated Apple from the rest was your ability to fully own and manage their devices easily without having to rely on some "forever" subscription. I'm not sure that'…

I never said it was a law, it's a rule of thumb used by police to harass and arrest gender non-conforming people. You seem determined to find some formal law that made their existence illegal, an…