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Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by zaroth on Thursday November 19, 2020 @12:33AM (#25146554)
The phone doesn’t magically just work the way you want it to, and the functionality you personally desire doesn’t come without trade-offs and consequences to Apple, to other developers, or to other users.

You’re saying that because you bought a single iPhone that Apple now essentially reports to you. That YOU get to decide how Apple spends millions of dollars in its R&D, and that you get to decide how their software should function.

What makes you their master just because you freely chose to buy a single unit of a device from them? A device that, by the way, has sold billions of units.

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by LunaSea on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:24AM (#25148410)
You're way off base.

If a customer buys a phone, no investment or R&D is required by Apple to support other search engines, apps, browsers or payment systems.

Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by zaroth on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:20AM (#25151003)
It would actually require a massive investment by Apple to actually support all of those things as tested, enabled, documented, secured, stable, and fully supported (by the help-desk) features of their product.
Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic by hda2 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @09:45PM (#25156893)
Calling the work apple would need to do a "massive investment" is disingenuous at best.