… Ok.

Out of curiosity, what functionality and what rights am I sacrificing?

So you knew all about this, you just wanted me to give specific examples so you can decide if you care about them?

To each their own but personally a company locking down the device I paid them for is a non starter. And consistently being years behind the competition when you’re a trillion dollar company is just… Sad.

Seriously imagine how much damage is done to the web as an evolving ecosystem by them disallowing all other browsers on hundreds of millions of devices. I know I personally have spent months of my life specifically supporting Safari in particular. Things that worked immediately on all other tested browsers took a lot of finagling to get working on iOS safari. I could’ve been spending that time developing new features (for all users, not just the wealthiest ones who bought iPhones) and fixing bugs.

Apologies for my incorrect assumptions. I have had some very exhausting conversations with apple users. The EU had to force apple to use USBC (among other things no other company needs forcing to do) which is just insane. Honestly I’m a bit shocked that you came from Android phones and haven’t noticed the difference. There are many areas where you have little to no choice on iOS. How have you not noticed? If apple doesn’t want you to do it, you basically can’t.

If the browser thing was the only thing that would be a deal breaker for me for sure. You could install any browser you wanted on computers thirty years ago. How is it a thing that in 2024 a company is literally preventing you from installing a web browser on a phone that you bought?

There are many countless examples I’ve noticed over the years of things that cannot be done or are harder on iOS. On my android phone (and I wish there were options besides Android btw, because fuck Google) I can use SyncThing to keep my photos and other files backed up automatically without paying any cloud service. On iOS, last I checked you could even use a file manager, let alone anything remotely like SyncThing. They literally lock you out of doing anything that would cost them a penny. Such a shitty business model, removing any choice that doesn’t put money in their pockets.

You can’t load software on your own device unless apple gives you permission even though you bought the device. I know how this goes every single time though. I can list features you don’t have or reasons why apple is trash and none of them will concern you at all. You will claim you don’t need other browsers but safari, you don’t need features android has had for years, you don’t need usb-c. Exactly the same conversation every time. When apple eventually gets any of these features, you will be ecstatic and love the company for them. It’s a cult.

And inb4 I am in the Google cult. Nope, fuck Google.

Nonono see trump 2024 tho /s

I’m more like a corp hater in this case. If I could reliably run a FOSS OS on my phone I would

"I’ll gladly sacrifice functionality and my rights as a consumer for better UI integration " 🤢

Thanks for that. Apparently a lot of apple simps are on here, since in getting downvoted a lot for just expressing distaste with the shitty practices of an evil corporation, which btw in time nearly everything I hate about them is getting legislated against by the EU. They are an anti-consumer pile of dogshit company.

Surprising. What do you have to do to publish such an extension? To get any app on your device typically apple must explicitly review and approve it 🤢

Safari is different on iOS, you can’t just take for granted we’re just talking about “Safari” here. Since when have they supported extensions on mobile?

Facebook either, but billions still do

Safari iOS is cancer. Source: am developer who supports websites on Safari iOS.

I am a little curious how this could work though. My impression is that iOS is extremely locked down. Can’t even use a browser that isn’t Safari with a skin.

I am not in charge of posting every news article on the web, friend. I read this one, thought it was interesting, and I posted it. I’m just posting this article that’s already available on a much bigger platform than Lemmy—I didn’t write it, just sharing it for discussion.

I believe the content fits this community’s guidelines, and if you feel otherwise, the mods are available. Thank you!

I don’t believe most people repeat pretty much the exact phrasing over and over and then lead normal lives. A hundred times one can find versions of the above quotes by browsing your history. I won’t respond anymore since it’s obvious this is your MO.

Enjoy the attention others give you!

Yeah I read the thread and saw how you left out the context with the screenshots proving you got permabanned from an entire instance for being “toxic”. The fake sounding comments in your history don’t convince me that’s wrong either. No one repeats themselves so much or says thank you after every interaction… So yeah you’re obviously sus.

Why did you draw attention to all of this here? Did you want sympathy for getting permabanned from an entire instance? You can’t pretend the mod/admin didn’t write “toxic”, it’s right here in this thread too.

Yep, they clearly went back in time a month to do it too!

haha that was so infuriating. if their intent was to bastardize the filename horribly to make it noticeable that you defied the DOS limitation, they certainly succeeded. Yuck, totally forgot about the ~1 thing!

Ah I gotcha now. I forgot about the capitalization stuff haha!

I was so curious if there was some weird Linux audio system I didn’t begin to understand lol

It sounded plausible kind of because every device is mapped to a file path somewhere!

I sense sarcasm but I don’t really get it. I still can’t tell if the OC had a typo or not :)

Thanks for this. I’m always confused by the layout and this tend to stick to putting things in the same places, even if they’re wrong :)

…you become 12?