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Re:Samsung Outsells iPhone, Breaks Shipping Records by veidr on Saturday July 28, 2012 @05:28AM (#4305145)
It's not just developers. A lot of users really hate Apple's rules and overbearing behavior. Retroactively disabling apps like Airfoil speakers, not allowing routine apps like wi-fi signal strength checkers, not allowing porn, not allowing installing apps outside of the app store... shit like that pisses off warehouse workers and preschool teachers I know.

It's not just the bogus patent suits and insane restrictions on developers that make people dislike Apple. Developers don't like that shit, but are also in a way more inclined to pragmatically overlook it. Real users are often less forgiving.

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Re:Samsung Outsells iPhone, Breaks Shipping Records by taligent on Saturday July 28, 2012 @05:51AM (#4305182)
Firstly, I don't know which preschool teachers you know but I can't imagine many of them caring about a WiFi signal strength checker (it is already built in), porn (iPhone websites already exist and you can put your own videos on the device) or installing apps from outside the app store.

Secondly, you seem to be ignorant of the Cydia App Store where there is a large number of paid apps for the more power users.

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