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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by riatin on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @05:07PM (#43405143)
> You don't ever have to leave the Apple App Store, but your preference has no right to enforce an artificial limitation onto other users.

So... just buy an Android? This is not an artificial limitation, it's an express preference that the vast majority of iOS users have voted for.

> The Mac as a product would not exist without third-party software distribution

The Mac is a completely different product servicing a completely different set of needs. Nobody is asking for the iPhone to be able to run Node or Vim so they can do their work, they want to scroll Instagram and reply to their iMessage

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by arvinsim on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:54PM (#43406706)
Both your statements are just arbitrary You are not representative of all iPhone users.
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by saagarjha on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @06:57AM (#43410387)
Plenty of people are asking for that, actually. I suggest you look through the App Store for developer tools and report back what you find.
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by riatin on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @05:54PM (#43417696)
I'm sure if it was really that much of an unmet need, Apple would be jumping out of their skin to go and build it and thus rake in the billions of unrealised revenue that must be out there

But they're not, so I'm continue to assume they know what they're doing. Again, go buy an Android if that's what you want

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by saagarjha on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:55AM (#43421292)
You're sure that the company of "a thousand nos for every yes" is going to go out and make every single thing that people might possibly want?
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by ericmay on Thursday March 20, 2025 @12:58PM (#43425727)
No... which is why they've been such a great company for so long.
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by saagarjha on Friday March 21, 2025 @02:02AM (#43432255)
The point is that they offload a lot of the things to third parties.