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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by efdee on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:11PM (#43403614)
> They have other things to do with their time than learn about security vulnerabilities and how to avoid them.

You're making that statement as if iPhones don't have security issues and people using Android definitely have to learn about those things.

> They want to just click 'yes' on every popup and expect things to keep working. Because they know that they are not qualified to answer that yes/no popup question. And those people do not care much about lock-in and walled gardens.

What exactly is it that Apple does that makes it not matter whether you click 'yes' or 'no' on these popups?

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by alterom on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @03:31PM (#43403898)
To add: if the goal is to make a system where the yes/no answer is irrelevant, then it's a system when very horrible UX: the pop-up shouldn't be there in the first place!

This also doesn't address the obvious solution: safe and easy defaults, and an option for manual overrides in advanced "I know what I'm doing" settings.

And no pop-ups at all.

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