Even after all these years the reality distortion field is strong as ever. Meanwhile if Google had done this people would already be outside their HQ with pitchforks and calling for the government to break up their evil monopoly.
I don’t know anything about this particular case but there is a gray area when it comes to what an owner of a platform should/shouldn’t be allowed to do. I hope the EU cracks down hard on both Apple and Google. Both of these platforms have become essential to modern life in many ways and as such a case can be made for strict government oversight of them.
Once you realize how dirty Apple's marketing is, its quite off-putting. I have a similar aversion to Samsung, Nintendo, Disney.
Maybe Google does mind control, but I didn't catch them. Apple, Samsung, Nintendo, Disney, these companies have no qualms making you feel pain to get a sale.
Just a minor nitpick/correction here but there are multiple ongoing anti-trust suits that Google is getting killed on that very likely will lead to the breakup of some of its company's products, so that may be where the comment you are replying to is coming from.
A cherry picked measure of some rando who thinks Apple is taking money off the table that would be ours if not for Apple; free the market from this Kraken!
More banal free market retail capitalism demands from the IT crowd who would be Tim Cook themselves.
When someone here defines novel mathematical axioms, humanity will have reason to be impressed. Iterating inside the same old knowledge bubble and skill set is uninspiring; the demand to create an economic brand and build a flock of sycophants is sad old roleplay
Nope, not seeing anyone defending Apple on this (at least in the top hundred or so comments at time of writing). Even if you can find one, the posts ITT remarking on how common ridiculous Apple defenses are likely outnumber the actual comments defensive of Apple. Y’all may want to adjust your priors.
The intended functionality of the App, no matter how obvious it may seem, needs to be documented to users IMO. Yes it's a camera app - yes it takes pictures. However, users should understand WHEN and under what conditions the app takes pictures.
Saying "this app takes photos" is really not enough. Does it take photos while I sleep?
That might sound ridiculous but remember the plethora of apps that take location data when they don't explicitly need it at that moment.
I’m coming fresh off weeks of app rejections that turned out to be I included the word “review” in the description of my app on the Google Play Store, and best I can tell was an automated rejection based on keyword matching and entirely unhelpful to explanatory text, so let us not pretend Google is running a tighter ship here.
I don’t agree with the gp comment’s sentiment though, plenty of people here and elsewhere go hard to bat for google, although admittedly lately that’s increasingly difficult to do with a straight face.
Nobody is simping for anything. Taken at face value, folks just have an opinion that is different than your and they are expressing it on a site designed explicitly to express such things. And that is just fine.
Who knows maybe they have a point that you never considered. Why else would you visit the comments here? Just to get a pat on the back that every person on the planet thinks exactly like you do?
It can be banking, it can be ad business, or any other morally questionable endeavors, its the same story. Don't blame them per se, they don't know better and life would look suddenly pretty bleak with cold hard look in the mirror. Maybe the only clear failure IMHO is to not have something much more important defining who you are to yourself, your self-worth to say. Because then this becomes rather unimportant aspect of your existence and the need for elaborate invention of new convenient truths is much lower.
This was/is very difficult for me. I am about a decade into my career and 15 years into when I first started seriously messing around with tech - in those days, ~2010, tech was seen as the future to the planet and that message very much was pitched all around silicon valley and trickled into my coursework. The massive disillusionment I felt right out of school was a really hard hit and caused a bit of depression. I wasn't changing the world, I wasn't even doing anything remotely useful for a company that also wasn't doing anything remotely useful and I think that's been the case for most of my career, outside of the occasional instances where I do consulting (which I find rewarding actually).
But such is life, outside of tech as well. I take pride now in my work, not whatever I think I am contributing to society. If my work is doing something ultimately pointless or supporting something that is morally or ethically gray, I take pride in ignoring that (because I have no control over it) and doing it as best as I can and that has helped a lot. Some may judge me harshly for that, but I don't care, it is really one of the only sane ways to cope - rather than conjuring insane justifications for why things are the way they are (which suck).
I had a teacher call me poor for having an Android. I made 4x more money than her in a year, and decided to let her know that.
I also let her know that a phone I can get for $30/mo isnt much of a status symbol. Unemployed teens are able to afford it somehow.
My laptop computer has that ability built in, and it isn't really "mad"
If Apple allowed me to load software from third parties directly, like I do on my computer, I wouldn't care what the App store policies were, much like I don't care what the MacOS app store policies are.
Instead, they can make app developers fulfill whatever criteria they want. It’s their platform after all.
It’s like going to the DMV, the type of people who work at those human facing administrative jobs often don’t care about doing their job well, they just blindly check boxes and exploit their small of amount of power to avoid any personal responsibility.
You guys are overthinking this