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Re:Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com by swiley on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:58AM (#19225287)
It’s kind of insane that they do that considering the majority of phones are androids. It means many people are almost certainly going to need your laptop which really limits how it can be used.
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Re:Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com by trickstra on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:15AM (#19225983)
> considering the majority of phones are androids.

This is one of the ways they are trying to change that.

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Re:Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com by goda90 on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:23AM (#19226066)
It doesn't make sense that making it harder to use a feature of an iPhone would make more people want to use an iPhone. It seems unlikely that someone sees someone struggle to find their lost iPhone via an Android device and think "This makes me want an iPhone more"
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Re:Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com by isostatic on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:44AM (#19226245)
"I'm glad I have an iphone, this android is rubbish"
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Re:Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com by ChrisSD on Friday February 22, 2019 @10:37AM (#19226174)
I doubt it. Apple don't care about having a high percent of the market. They're happy so long as they have the high end in their pocket. That's where the big margins are.

They're happy to leave the high volume lower end to the likes of Samsung.

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