Francisco TolmaskyJul 5, 2024
I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see *the rest of the fucking internet* “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.
Show threadPete

@tolmasky Personally, I'm an apple users and I write mobile apps and I have no problem with how Apple manages things.

If you don't like the way Apple manages their eco system then don't write apps for Apple devices. There. Problem solved.

Jul 5, 2024 at 10:17pmWeb
Show threadFrancisco TolmaskyJul 5, 2024
@philpetree I’m complaining as an Apple user, not an Apple developer. I would hope that as someone who spends hundreds of dollars on an iPhone I am allowed to voice a complaint about a product? Or are you one of those “then just use another phone!” people? They crack me up. Like if your food is cold at a restaurant it’s unreasonable to request it be fixed, your only option is “go to another restaurant if you don’t like it!”
Show threadPeteJul 6, 2024
@tolmasky You can complain all you want but the truth is, the vast majority of Apple's users like the privacy and security we get from Apple and we don't want that to change. (and the whole restaurant bit is a false equivalency argument, something else Apple users don't like.)
Show threadFrancisco TolmaskyJul 6, 2024
@philpetree If anything, the restaurant would be more justified in saying "like it or leave” since there's hundreds of restaurant options vs. phones which are a duopoly. So you're right, it was unfair to restaurants for me to compare them to arguments from Apple apologists. I do however love you how you blanket describe all Apple users as hating false equivalencies, like they're some cartoon homogeneous race from Lord of the Rings. Elves love nature and Apple users hate false equivalencies!