Hostile is stupid, because Apple's brand is something along the lines of "make things straightforward and high quality for the end user". If they can't justify a short duration like a week they are betraying that brand.
This brand supports them doing all sorts of things that some like and some chafe at. For example, the ios store, grossly deficient as it is, is IMHO a relative win: combined with the strict hardware lockdown it makes me comfortable casually downloading apps, and more importantly my parents downloading apps. Other examples are the automatic backups to the cloud or the Safari requirement. I look at my dad's virus- and crapware-ridden windows machine and just shake my head. It's gotten so terrible that he uses his phone more and more because it keeps working.
Apple understands the subtlety of that brand too well, and they get away with a lot (e.g. they crushed a lot of opportunities for advertising spyware -- yay! -- but kept that capability for themselves).
BTW I wouldn't and don't tolerate that automatic backup in macos nor a strict app store lockdown, and if the mac really headed in that direction I'd go back to Linux. For example, Dropbox is a first class citizen on the mac, but not quite on ios.
I understand that some chafe under the ios restrictions, and I don't blame them. I still think of my laptop as my "real" personal computing device and my phone as something I want to always be working.
eps|1 year ago
gumby|1 year ago
This brand supports them doing all sorts of things that some like and some chafe at. For example, the ios store, grossly deficient as it is, is IMHO a relative win: combined with the strict hardware lockdown it makes me comfortable casually downloading apps, and more importantly my parents downloading apps. Other examples are the automatic backups to the cloud or the Safari requirement. I look at my dad's virus- and crapware-ridden windows machine and just shake my head. It's gotten so terrible that he uses his phone more and more because it keeps working.
Apple understands the subtlety of that brand too well, and they get away with a lot (e.g. they crushed a lot of opportunities for advertising spyware -- yay! -- but kept that capability for themselves).
BTW I wouldn't and don't tolerate that automatic backup in macos nor a strict app store lockdown, and if the mac really headed in that direction I'd go back to Linux. For example, Dropbox is a first class citizen on the mac, but not quite on ios.
I understand that some chafe under the ios restrictions, and I don't blame them. I still think of my laptop as my "real" personal computing device and my phone as something I want to always be working.