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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by rickycook on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:49AM (#19386599)
a laptop is not a tablet, a tablet is not a phone, a phone is not a watch; that’s part of apple’s philosophy behind how their devices work together. knock it all you want (and there are legitimate criticisms), but it works remarkably well and makes all these devices feel like they have a natural place and purpose

*EDIT: i’m not saying “place and purpose” is a reason why macos and ios have different security models, but just pointing out that “why is a laptop different to a phone” is not reeeeeeally a particularly valid place to start

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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by ehaliewicz2 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @01:20PM (#19391337)
They're both computers. One is smaller than the other, therefore it shouldn't allow you to run whatever apps you want? That's a ridiculous idea.
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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by tripzilch on Thursday March 14, 2019 @01:38PM (#19391508)
> it works remarkably well and makes all these devices feel like they have a natural place and purpose

Um really those are artificial, not natural. The nature of the devices is that they're still general purpose computers, the artificial restrictions on them give them an artificial place and purpose. It's still a thing, but Apple isn't magically altering reality.

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