GigglyBobble @ GigglyBobble @kbin.social

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How do you secure email accounts then? And wouldn't that make those just even more attractive targets?

Oh man. By that headline I got my hopes up that Logitech came to their senses and renewed the Harmony Hub or even the glorious Harmony One.

They have much higher standards

Than who? Android play store? Definitely. Decades old established package managers like Debian's apt? Not so much.

Or do you mean the potential third party tool for iOS that doesn't even exist and now is much less likely to be good because of Apple being a douche about it?

To the replies in the other threads, they never see fanboys defending Apple, especially not on Lemmy: see? Whataboutism and "sideloading is automatic security and privacy (?!) nightmare" kool-aid.

More direct reply: no, alternative app stores don't imply less security. They could be more secure even. And sure it's all about money for Apple (and other companies = irrelevant here) but that doesn't void criticism.

Well, it basically prevents something like F-Droid for iOS arising from the EU ruling. Kinda big deal. Not that the fanboys would care though. Apple is infallible.

Sure but they’re also sold secondhand. Also people can be born in one country, but move to live in another one… bringing their devices with them. Apple’s DRM can’t be tied to hardware.

Why not? What happens in the examples you gave? The EU won't forbid such devices entering the EU or they'd have to confiscate them off tourists. How many Americans do you know who have EU devices and vice versa? That issue may be negligible.

Battery life must be equal or better, no extra points will be given for massive CPU/GPU power

LOL. Cherry-picking much? You corpo fanboys are so pathetic.

I think it's sad. This corpo worship results in higher prices for all of us. Apple created this weird pseudo religion that makes other vendors (like Samsung) raising their prices more acceptable while competition should actually put prices under pressure.

that I can do a lot of cross platform development

I'd never have thought that to be the strength of an Apple device.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

How about an efficiency breakthrough instead? Our brains just need a meal and can recognize a face without looking at billions of others first.

Nuclear produces that 1 GW 24/7 and all year though. My solar panels vastly overproduce on most summer days and are worthless at nights and from fall to spring.

Would be great if somehow this patent was bought out and made public domain so people outside the upper middle class could have an affordable way to track their vitals.

Apple is a strange choice as a champion for that. Their devices always have been notoriously overpriced.

Already replaced it with Fossify.

No, that's fine. I was particularly asking about that specific app since I haven't heard anything about it. Now, thanks to the Github link I switched to the Fossify version. Seems to be the same. I love FOSS. ❤️

The company loaded it with whatever spyware they wanted and pushed it in an update. Now the app is garbage.

Wait what? I have it too and see no changes at all. How does it spy since the app has 0 bytes of traffic (now blocked it to be safe)?

nothing about android’s licensing could make it impossible to make it impossible to not lock it down

Sorry, I cannot decipher that. If you mean, this doesn't prevent phone makers to lock down their bootloaders: sure. But I just need to find one that doesn't and by an open source Android there will always be an image to flash. At least it's infinitely better than Apple's walled garden.

at least they allow you to use other app stores or even download them directly from the app developer.

The bigger one is that the base system is still open source. That ensures a baseline of freedom. Google services are so intertwined that it's hardly possible to really live without but it is. Imagine a de-appled iPhone.