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The #1 reason not to use Apple is their arrogance toward their users. I don't want them to lie to me about my battery, nor make me choose their music over spotify and engage in other customer-hostile policies to make money.

If it were only that simple, sigh. Google is much worse. Apple at least lip sync's privacy, I suspect when it is to their advantage.

I believe Apple just has no clue as to how to create products any more. How much money are they sitting on and and this is the best they can do?

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>I don't want them to lie to me about my battery

You say that, but you most likely do. Even if you absolutely don’t, the vast majority of users still do, even if they don’t know it.

The whole point of software is to at least partly obfuscate what the hardware does, to the benefit of users. Making things easier to use and understand and hiding unnecessary complications is not arrogance towards users, it’s acting in their interest.

I meant the thing about throttling the performance because the battery was old.

Throthled performance might midly annoy some of the users, some of the time. Battery lasting less than 8 hours would enrage everyone very quickly.

Fortunately you can choose Spotify, in fact Apple has distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free.

And Apple did not lie about your battery, it kept your phone from spontaneously restarting when your battery declined to a pout where it couldn’t generate adequate voltage for the system. Apple just did a poor job of communicating what iOS was doing to prevent this.

What do you mean by "distributed thousands of terabytes of Spotify to iOS users for free"?

Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores. They take 30% of paid app revenues (15% of long term subscriptions).

Apple has distributed over 300M downloads of Spotify to iOS users, since Spotify is a free app it hasn’t paid a cent for over 30 Petabytes of bandwidth costs.

That's how the internet works ... and Apple is hosting the app only. It doesn't deal with the streaming

I don't have too much knowledge about how the delivery of apps in iOS store works, but I could infer that it is not only hosting files. They need at least to keep multiple versions and delivery the one that fits the proper iOS version of the device. And, based on my experience with delivering desktop apps I think there is much more to that. For example I was just delivering one single app to customers and still I needed to allocate time to infrastructure and versioning and automating some tasks and signing the code and much more.

I imagine that for an iOS store there is more.

The App store is one of Apples most profitable segments.

Let's not act like its philanthropy.

And they don't charge for distribution per se but their cut more than makes up for it.

> Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores.

Yes they do, publishing on the App Store isn't free. Also, they favor some apps they don't compete with, (Uber), while handicapping others, (Spotify). Hardly fair.

>Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores.

You have to pay every year to be in the appstore.

Apple does neither of these things.

>to lie to me about my battery What do you mean by lying?

They removed the API to get the exact battery capacity/charge.

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