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by NotPractical 1y ago
I mean yeah, that's bad, but enemy of my enemy? Asking the EU for something doesn't imply that you endorse everything they do. Also, they've already reached out to the EU, IIRC. (Not sure if that went anywhere.) As for whethe
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by NotPractical 1y ago
That is a good point. I wish dual booting with different security settings was possible on Android as well. The incentives for Google to implement that aren't really there though.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> You're either fully locked in, or fully on your own. I'm not sure what you mean by that. You can trivially root a Pixel factory image. And if you're talking about how they will punish you for that by removing certain fea
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Unfortunately Apple is in $HN_GOOD_COMPANIES and Microsoft is in $HN_BAD_COMPANIES so facts don't matter, but yes Windows Recall is objectively more private than Apple Intelligence.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> It’s not about “all software needs to let my desktop look like a clown makeup set Except it literally is about that? Libre software guarantees users the right to make their own modifications to it. That's basically the entire po
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Distributions are operated by users. They're basically just a collection of recommended packages, curated by the distribition maintainers. Why should users be prevented from sharing their preferred themes with other users, in the form
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Why would different business practices shield console makers in the first place, legally speaking? As in, even if all consoles were always sold at a loss, how would that help someone's legal case that they should be excluded here? Does
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by NotPractical 1y ago
F-Droid [1] has a squeaky clean track record when it comes to malware [2]. Might be mostly just because the number of users is relatively low. Quality of course varies wildly, but that's to be expected. [1] https://en.wikipe
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by NotPractical 1y ago
OP didn't say they were better overall, rather that they were a better "actor", as in, they play nicer than Apple with other actors (companies) in the tech space, and as such you'd expect them to be less targeted by anti
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Typical lazy Ars reporting. The feature originates from GrapheneOS, not iOS.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Yes, developers are of course going to opt for APIs that allow them to be as lazy as possible, forego proper backend security, and reduce costs. But is allowing developers to be lazy worth the cost of destroying user freedom? If so, maybe w
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Thanks for your thought-provoking response. I agree with most of it. The vibe I generally get from Graphene users is that they feel that they are taking control over their device by installing Graphene onto it (which is almost always a manu
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> "security" and "giving users a say in how their phone works" are diametrically opposed Try putting that sentence prominently on the front page of the GrapheneOS website and watch the monthly download count rapidly d
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by NotPractical 1y ago
So the law is now requiring that you find zero day exploits in iOS in order to make a banking app? Are there banking websites you can use instead? Are criminals incapable of using these websites for malicious purposes?
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> Android’s security design has fundamentally been based on a multi-party authorization model: an action should only happen if all involved parties authorize it. > these are user, platform, and developer (implicitly representing stake
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Those are very minor changes and almost everything besides superfluous things like the UI design are the same.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
They weren't expanding any terms in the parent comment. "Android" (AOSP) is open source, but it's not good-faith open source.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Of note, so far, you can still take advantage of all the features that the EU has forced Apple to add, as a developer (though not as a user), even if your company is outside the EU. This could of course change in the future, but US companie
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> This would result in tech companies supporting Republicans People often forget that these companies care about nothing but money. This isn't an anti-capitalist rant or anything; that's just how the world works. As publicly tr
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by NotPractical 1y ago
Sure, but you claimed that they were definitely not a monopoly, which hasn't been determined yet.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude comp
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by NotPractical 1y ago
I would say that custom Android-based ROMs like GrapheneOS are the solution, but Google is actively sabotaging those with the Play Integrity API so I don't know if they will be usable by the average person in the long-term (unless Goog
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> They want to just click 'yes' on every popup and expect things to keep working This is an extremely dangerous mindset, even if you never leave Apple's garden. As a reminder, Facebook and TikTok are on the App Store. We c
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> people can simply switch to an Android phone Giving all your data to Google (an adtech company) is not an acceptable solution. Not to mention that it's incredibly difficult to leave the Apple ecosystem, by design.
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by NotPractical 1y ago
You said that Apple makes the best tech, but you wouldn't know, because you cannot pair third party accessories with your Apple devices and have them work properly, so you cannot determine if third parties are capable of making accesso
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by NotPractical 1y ago
> ...but the Apple ecosystem has the best tech You aren't in any position to make that call, since you have no opportunity to try competing products due to being locked in to an anticompetitive ecosystem. European iOS users will soo
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by NotPractical 2y ago
There is no specific purpose for an iPad.
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by NotPractical 2y ago
> Over a million other ways to use it [...] Turn your iPad into almost anything — from a math classroom or workstation to a professional recording studio Sounds like a general purpose device to me.
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by NotPractical 2y ago
Please explain exactly what an iPad Pro is supposed to be used for. List out every possible use case of an iPad Pro. I think you'll find that you will quickly exhaust the max character limit...
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by NotPractical 2y ago
> You just don't think people should be allowed to make choices you don't approve of. This is what Apple believes, not the person you're replying to?

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