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Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry... by mstade on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:15PM (#11128425)
> They may be "do no evil" on privacy, but apple heavily pushes vendor lock in and basically does everything they can to keep you from being able to easily switch to a different vendor.

This is often used as an argument against Apple, but having gone back and forth over the years, I just don't think it's true anymore. It certainly was a decade ago, but now I'm finding it hard to think of any issues I've had going from Apple to any other vendor – regardless of whether it's software (migrating data, chiefly) or hardware. At least, I don't think they're significantly worse than any other vendor.

Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry... by Matheus28 on Thursday February 18, 2016 @11:15PM (#11131497)
Have you tried plugging an Android into a Mac?
Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry... by mstade on Saturday February 20, 2016 @11:20AM (#11140669)
I haven't, no, but it'd be interesting to learn what the pain points are. Care to share?
Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry... by Matheus28 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @04:05AM (#11173236)
By default you can't. You have to install an app on your OS X that Google makes, then it opens a file browser that lets you drag and drop files out/in of your phone. It's a pain.