Also with a laptop the use cases generally can tolerate a bit more delay in the login process, with a few seconds being tolerable, whereas with mobile devices a login process over a second starts to get intolerable very quickly as the length of the process increases. Again this may be obvious and yet you seem oblivious to it as a consideration, as you expect a better offer, as though there are no constraints and tradeoffs, or you are unaware of them.
Mobile device designers and mobile system designers deal with this stuff every day for years on end. They know a lot about it, and have thought stuff through way more than some of us. It's super easy for you to criticize from a position of relative ignorance (not even a current iOS user...) but I'm pretty sure they are still following the mantra of trying to make stuff insanely great.
Still, you can dream of even better devices. I'm sure the bar will keep being raised. Let's hope we get there to a place where we do have both freedom and security.
> Again this may be obvious and yet you seem oblivious to it as a consideration, as you expect a better offer, as though there are no constraints and tradeoffs, or you are unaware of them.
I'm not oblivious to the tradeoffs of security. I know that if I set a long password it only makes every login that much more tedious. And that's my problem to deal with. But to have no choice, no freedom, no chance of owing your device, in the name of "security", is either unmindful or wilfully ignorant of a manufacturer.
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You keep saying I'm not a current iOS user so I couldn't possibly see the great things iOS does. I merely doubt it could do anything beyond generally security focused OSes. For example, my current mobile OS has a separate decryption password at boot, scrambles the lock screen numeric layout, compartmentalizes my data, hooks into every way apps can request private data and lets me allow/disallow/fake it, hooks into every way apps can even run and lets me choose which to allow/disallow, and still provides me the freedom to run whatever I want and share whatever data I want with whichever app I want.
I'm not dreaming of much more, largely because I already have quite a lot.
I said no such thing. And yet you put it in quotes. This kind of behavior is for reddit, not here.
Apple does give you security; it just has to happen in a different way.
Social engineering, for one, is much easier against naive unsuspecting users than wiping their phone and hoping they wouldn't bother.
For those who truly care about their own data security though, a wiped phone is an instant siren.
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I have used an iPhone, though only for a short while, and not long enough to get used to it. I agree it goes a great, great distance to protect users against everyone not blessed by Apple.
But then I have greater data security on my laptop and far greater freedom too, so Apple's offering doesn't seem like a good enough deal to me.