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masonwanon macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess

Apple positioned themselves as hardware company but continue to sell us ads and locked in software.

If they are open their platform wildly, the open source community will help, but Apple closes platform, close mind.

masonwanon Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

I thought Apple could sell us privacy as feature because they don't sell ads .

I guess Apple is shooting their foot by selling their user data for ads because of money.

Betrayal?

masonwanon The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

If developers want to get the same processing speed, are we ready to pay as much as we pay for Apple App Store?

masonwanon Get your Windows license refund

Does this apply to Apple computers?

masonwanon Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

Apple did this since day one on 2007, no one bat an eye. If we want this to be fixed, IMO, we have to do this in politics.

masonwanon Advertise in ChatGPT

Why would people still use ChatGPT?

It's barely free, not that reliable, not the most trustworthy, and now they are popping ads right on my face.

Either spending a good money on the best one, or using the open source models seem to be the future.

masonwanon Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

Guess it's just another price bump hidden behind output token speed.

masonwanon Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

When Apple made MacBook Neo with a reasonable, and then destroy it with the price...

masonwanon GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

That's exactpy why I get Google Pixel phones.

Support expires? Upgrade to custom ROM Ads? Upgrade to custom ROM Want to use it as server? Upgrade to custom ROM.

If I would use Apple iPhone, these old phones would be trash very soon.

masonwanon AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

Wonder why Anthropic wants all those data? Isn't it a good company?

masonwanon German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews

I guess the same rules also applied to OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon?

masonwanon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

Thanks for the solution! I've been bothered with this issue for ages.

Many times Apple Music also triggered by the Bluetooth devices which is super annoying.

Apple really needs to implement a way to remove Apple Music completely.

masonwanon I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams

Apple News Ads just started in 2024. Maybe they are still learning how to battle the dark side of the Internet.

Use other platforms. Don't use Apple News. You could use an AI chatbot to find news for you. It has no ads, much easier to read, totally free, and tailored to your instructions.

masonwanon Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

That's probably why people should not live in the gated garden. Once they made a mistake, you will feel alien in the free world outside.

masonwanon The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop

Rally can't trust Apple making any standard. They always want to make more money than it is worth, and create demands which eventually causes monopoly and waste.