Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by scarface74 on Monday January 14, 2019 @06:44PM
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Without iCloud, you just can’t sync between devices and get untethered backups. But you can still backup your device from your computer.
Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks
by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:54AM
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And what is the equivalent of F-Droid for iOS? What's the alternative to Apple's App Store?
This trade off is inherent. If you want a map service that lets you bring up a map of your current location without first downloading a map of the entire world, you have to send your location to the place that sends you the relevant portion of the map. But you get to choose -- you can use Google Maps, or you can install one of the OSM apps that actually downloads the whole map and can operate offline. You can install apps from Google Play or you can install them some other way.
You can carve Google out of Android, and then it's worse, in much the same way that iOS is worse without iCloud and the App Store. Except that if you want to use F-Droid or Amazon instead of Google, on Android you can and on iOS you can't.
And closed source drivers are lame, but I don't see Apple providing driver source either, and presumably the drivers are not sending your data to a third party in any case.