newtritious

I guess none of this is Putin’s fault. Let’s blame Apple instead.

It was completely obvious at the time that people were buying smartphones because of the computer and not the phone.

Otherwise they wouldn’t have caught on.

You seem not to think the features operating system itself provides are part of a smartphone.

Keeping apps up to date with modern privacy concerns is a good thing. Why is anyone arguing in favor of developers abandoning apps?

It’s clearly delusional to expect iOS users to keep track of the deficiencies of all the old APIs their apps are using.

Yes, that’s the point here. A few end users can use an app the developer has abandoned, at the expense of the millions.

Defrosting them in a microwave would make them even more unpalatable. Also it not what they recommend.

I don’t want to see them fail. That’s why I bought their product. I was willing to pay more than beef for potential health and environmental benefits.

It’s just not a good product though.

Changes to old features also benefit the end users, and they do have to be breaking in a significant number of cases.

If you think there are no insecure or inefficient APIs in older versions of operating systems, then you are simply wrong.

No. The manual approval process covers the visible features, not shady stuff the reviewers can’t see.

> By all means, apply extra scrutiny if an old API is in use. Maybe allow the API only in updates to old apps, and not new ones.

If the developer is updating the app, there is no reason they shouldn’t adopt a more user friendly api.

Closing fashion boutiques isn’t going to do anything to “strip away everything that makes their lives worth living”. It’s a bizarre suggestion that a lack of access western clothing brands could have this effect.

There are in fact Russian clothing brands and tailors, who are just as good.

Maybe a tiny minority of end users, where the breaking changes benefit everyone else.

It seems like you genuinely think that closing fashion boutiques will stop Putin from using a nuclear weapon, and you seem to be comparing the loss of these boutiques to being conscripted into the army.

I don’t think you are being sensible.

The sibling and you are entitled to this preference, but I don’t see anything philosophical about it.

The job of the computer is to serve the end user. The job of the OS is to manage the computer’s resources on the users behalf.

API stability can contribute to that goal, but this is not an absolute.

Apple balances their view of what is good for users over what is good for developers and themselves.

Your preference is to prioritize developer comfort over both end users and Apple.

This has never been true. The point of an OS is to manage the resources of the computer on behalf of the user.

API stability sometimes serves the end user, and sometimes does not. When it does not, it should not be maintained.

Q: What can we do to stand up to someone threatening to use nuclear weapons?

A: Close our remaining fashion boutiques.

Seriously?

Why is it insane? Do you not test your library with new versions of the OS?

Also - “windows does it” is obviously irrelevant when we are talking about a mobile OS.

How about just not very palatable or convenient?

I bought a box of beyond meat burgers. They taste terrible compared to 4oz of beef with a little salt, and you have to keep them frozen and get the ones you want to cook out to thaw the night before.

I am probably not going to be able to finish the box.

Edit: Most veggie burgers that don’t pretend to be meat are better than these things in my opinion. They are in the uncanny valley.

UML was an attempt at this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language

Other platforms don’t care if applications fingerprint the device without the user’s consent.

Closing off APIs that facilitate fingerprinting is just one of many incompatible changes Apple has been making.

Some other reasons are deprecating power hungry technologies and asking for more permissions to access private data.

These are changes that benefit users on a massive scale. Why shouldn’t a developer be expected to respect users needs?

Quite a few changes over the past few years have been reducing access to data that can be used for fingerprinting, and requiring apps to ask permission for access to user data.

This is squarely the fault of developers abusing the users trust.

This is just wrong. Some older APIs are simply insecure or inefficient for example, and of course there are things that apps must now ask permission for where they didn’t in the past.

Apple can’t make these things compatible, nor should they try.

That’s because the platform is actually changing.

> Rectangle with capacitive screen is just that.

If you think that’s all a smartphone is, then it’s natural to come to the conclusion that the only thing that has changed is speed and resolution.

It also happens to be simply wrong.

You’re just wrong. The reason developers support iOS is that iOS users buy more apps.

I hear the opposite of you. There are very few serious apps whose code Apple is preventing from being run.

There are huge numbers of good apps on the store that don’t get visibility.

> The windows phone was a phone first, and a computer second. It would try to allow you to have access to the phone for as long as possible. Android and iPhone had no native battery saving features at the time, but windows phone did! It was great for those of us who went without power for extended periods of time.

You literally spent half of your comment discussing one feature, and explaining that windows phone was a phone first and a computer second.

That’s why it failed. Smartphones are obviously used as computers almost all the time, and the phone is a legacy feature.

In the scenario you would like to incentivize, who gets to decide what labor is compensated?

Amusing but silly. They are obviously lying.

You can’t seriously believe they are afraid of naming an Apple Store. If the store existed and they named it, then I’d look like a complete asshole.

Judge for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32916346

> The good ol' "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear".

Are you afraid that some harm will come to you if you name an Apple Store that was slow to repair a phone?

Nobody is asking you to disclose your whereabouts. Just tell us which Apple Store took 2 weeks to repair a phone, if indeed there is one.