[ausvisaissues]

> Providing simple access to the NFC antenna by banking applications would fundamentally diminish the high level of security Apple aims to have on our devices.

This is what I hate about Apple. I am fairly certain that the customers bought these devices -- so isn't it their customers' devices?

Apple wants to sell iPhones, yet keep complete control over it. Simple things such as disabling updates is not possible -- because it is not in Apple's interest.

They completely redefine what ownership means -- you "own" it, but Apple "controls" it.

[manicdee]

That is not what "our devices" means, and you know it.

You just hate Apple for ideological reasons, and reach (very hard) for reasons to support that ideology.

Just remember what you said here next time a car company talks about "our cars".

[7Z7]

> Simple things such as disabling updates is not possible -- because it is not in Apple's interest.

That seems disingenuous. Yes there is no explicit switch that prevents the user being informed about updates ever again, but there are no forced updates that I'm aware of. If you don't want to update, don't.

[ausvisaissues]

It is not possible to block downloads of updates or to switch of daily update reminders on new iOS devices. This is a well known problem: http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/04/stop-ios-software-update-noti...

The only option is to avoid Wifi or configure your wifi router to block Apple.