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0 pointsbriandear1y ago0 comments

I like the ecosystem. If you don’t, choose another ecosystem.

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If you like it, use it. Why not let other people augment the ecosystem? If Apple allowed Pebble to get full permissions and it all turned out to be the extremely unsafe, buggy disaster that everyone here chooses to portray it as, then you can still buy an Apple Watch. In what way does shutting out the competition benefit you?

shuckles1y ago

How many users do you think call Apple everyday to complain about issues with their third party, knockoff AirPods lookalikes? Could you imagine why Apple could be protective of the user experience of their hardware and sensitive to that user experience being compromised by poorly implemented or nonfunctional peripherals? For every Pebble user, how many people might buy ripoff Apple Watches?

saagarjha1y ago

I would not be surprised if more people called every day about how their AirPods aren’t working as expected.

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lucianbr1y ago

I like that the EU forces Apple to be more open. If you don't, just don't come to Europe.

csours1y ago

"Love it or leave it" - why not make it better?

pparanoidd1y ago

It's constantly getting better. If it wasn't then competitors would surpass it, but they never have.

shuckles1y ago

Allowing support for a rich ecosystem of mediocre smart watches does not move the needle on making it better for me personally. And Apple probably has done the market research to confirm most of their customers are like me and not like Pebble users.

csours1y ago

> And Apple probably has done the market research to confirm most of their customers are like me and not like Pebble users.

I'm sure. The customers they do not have are like Pebble users, and they don't want customers like Pebble users. They want customers like Apple Watch users.

It is a bit 'masque of the red death' to defend anti-competitive practices, is all I'm saying.

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grishka1y ago

What if you like their computers but absolutely can't stand their mobile devices though?

I got fed up with the walled gardens enough that I made a macOS app to transfer files to and from Android devices using Google's Quick Share protocol (that I had to reverse engineer first).

And no, don't suggest me to try desktop Linux. I want to use my system, not maintain it.

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tavavex1y ago

shuckles1y ago

saagarjha1y ago

I would not be surprised if more people called every day about how their AirPods aren’t working as expected.

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lucianbr1y ago

I like that the EU forces Apple to be more open. If you don't, just don't come to Europe.

csours1y ago

"Love it or leave it" - why not make it better?

pparanoidd1y ago

It's constantly getting better. If it wasn't then competitors would surpass it, but they never have.

shuckles1y ago

csours1y ago

> And Apple probably has done the market research to confirm most of their customers are like me and not like Pebble users.

I'm sure. The customers they do not have are like Pebble users, and they don't want customers like Pebble users. They want customers like Apple Watch users.

It is a bit 'masque of the red death' to defend anti-competitive practices, is all I'm saying.

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grishka1y ago

What if you like their computers but absolutely can't stand their mobile devices though?

I got fed up with the walled gardens enough that I made a macOS app to transfer files to and from Android devices using Google's Quick Share protocol (that I had to reverse engineer first).

And no, don't suggest me to try desktop Linux. I want to use my system, not maintain it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse