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Re:BlackRock’s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losin... by ec109685 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:02AM (#16157012)
I am not sure how you don’t see that asking the most influential phone maker in the world to focus on the effect of its devices on children won’t numerically improve outcomes? Of course it makes sense to focus on the market leader that influences the industry rather than marginal down market devices.

Also, I don’t think apple’s controls are all that good. MacOS X has quiet time for kids, etc. I don’t think iOS has that. Android also allows more invasive apps to take over more of the OS if parents so desire to exert more control over the device. You can see some of the rigmarole that this parent control app has to deal with on iOS: https://screentimelabs.com/help/ios-differences/

Re:BlackRock’s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losin... by peoplewindow on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:39AM (#16159465)
iOS is not the market leader in any market? Android dominates everywhere, as far as I know, although moreso in some markets than others. And Android is open source, so Jana could easily fund child-safety features themselves if they disagree with Google or Samsung or Huawei on prioritisation.

Regardless, the fund in question hasn't made specific suggestions for what Apple - apparently the market leader in this particular feature - could do better. Perhaps Jana has no such ideas and merely feel that publicly attacking Apple will be sufficient to get the creative juices flowing. In that case they are wrong. If they don't feel like actually contributing features in question then they should, at most, be telling others to look at the design work Apple has done and copy it. They should not be making generic exhortations to Apple to "work harder", because that looks strongly like virtue signalling and is thus ignorable.

Re:BlackRock’s Message: Contribute to Society, or Risk Losin... by ec109685 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:44PM (#16162971)
Apple is the leading device manufacturer. And Apple doesn't have a mechanism to limit screen time on their devices. There are solutions in the Android ecosystem that do that.