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Re:Apple’s Mistake by dTal on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:35PM (#28119728)
One of the most pernicious sins of the smartphone revolution was to rebrand the "computer". We'd evolved expectations as to what we were entitled to on our own machines - yes, even those with a proprietary OS - and then with one weird trick, it all went in the trash. Advertising, surveillance, inability to install whatever you want - before smartphones, this sort of thing used to be unequivocally malware.

The worst part is that now the dam's broken, it's all bleeding back into "computers".

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Re:Apple’s Mistake by lupire on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:26PM (#28121210)
You're blaming smartphones for problem that exists because of the Internet. If smartphones didn't render computers irrelevant to most people, all this "bad app" stuff would have happened on computers.

And the computers that don't have "bad apps" are hacked and encrypted by ransomware. Is that better?

Spyware is older than smartphones.

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Re:Apple’s Mistake by dTal on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:55PM (#28121604)
Spyware is older than smartphones, but back then we called it "spyware", not "ooh, the latest Android!".
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Re:Apple’s Mistake by JAlexoid on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:35PM (#28122030)
Apple is literally going to spy on you... and then report you to the authorities.

I'd rather give all of my DNA to an advertising company.

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Re:Apple’s Mistake by dTal on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:04PM (#28123411)
Fine, "the latest iPhone" then. If you thought that was some sort of Android-vs-Apple remark then you have missed the point.
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Re:Apple’s Mistake by mr_toad on Monday August 09, 2021 @11:36PM (#28124919)
> The worst part is that now the dam's broken, it's all bleeding back into "computers".

Back in the day, before cellular phones, mainframe and minicomputer vendors tried their best to restrict the software that could be run on “their” hardware. They realised that they could squeeze the most out of their customers that way.

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