News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes. Parent comment

Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by grumple on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:12PM (#33779736)
> I can't tell you how many "normal users" ask me whether there is an open source equivalent they can use so they don't have to pay for X

I don't think I've ever had a non-dev ask me about "open source". Asking for free alternatives, sure, but it's very rare that I'd recommend open source alternatives for whatever normal people are doing.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by sam0x17 on Monday November 28, 2022 @05:19PM (#33780673)
I've had many people come to me asking for "that open source office thing instead of word"
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple's reaction to protests: AirDrop is now limited to 1... by grumple on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @08:04AM (#33787072)
Have you really? I worked in an org full of fairly technical non-devs and never had someone ask that. Mostly because corporations usually have no problem paying for Word... and google docs exists.
[ Parent | on HN ]