Comment by fennecfoxy | Hacker News Reader

Comment by fennecfoxy | Hacker News Reader

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>If the problem is just Apple, then why do modt companies make iOS apps, Android apps and web apps instead of telling Android users to just use the web apps? Because they're forced to in order to do business since Apple controls their platform?

Hell, there was (and still is I think) even all the ridiculous rules around "can't link to a website payment outside of your app" and "definitely can't tell the user it's cheaper not to buy it thru the app where Apple takes a 30% cut"

I distrust Microsoft and Google as much as I distrust Apple, but damn do people give Apple so many passes "yeah well they use that 30% cut to pay for all the security and services they offer!111" you really believe that? How come so many 0-days & other exploits are found by GOOGLE'S project zero? Does Apple not pay enough for their own research into that stuff?

Can you name one retailer that is going to allow you to advertise that you can get something cheaper somewhere else?

Also, really complaining about Apple’s security compared to Android? Seeing that most Apple has been publishing security patches for 10 year old phones and Google abandons its own hardware.

Apple is more than the retailer. Apple owns the whole mall, the fire department, the police, the chamber of commerce, and basically the whole town where most of your family and friends live.

Don't like it? Just move to the only other town there is, and write them letters and visit occasionally. If you don't like it there too, well they say there are other places if you take a long boat ride.

As to Google, despite all their many faults at least they haven't gas lit me claiming I'm holding it wrong.

Now we are bringing something up from 2010? Yet it proved to be another *Gate. Apple sold the same phone - the GSM iPhone 4 for three years.

Apple isn't just "a retailer", and regulators seem to agree. Also, Google provides seven years of updates for their current Pixel devices.

Congratulations? Apple released a security update for the iPhone 5s released in 2013 early last year.

What about all of the other devices it sold in the last decade.

And Google only sells a tiny fraction of Android devices. What about the other literally 97%

Microsoft hasn’t had a problem keeping PCs updated that it doesn’t sell for a decade. Heck I got Windows updates for my pre-Bootcamp x86 2006 Mac Mini for years after Apple abandoned it

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