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by baddox 2099 days ago
Yes, absolutely! Just like I'd rather pay for Apple Arcade so that I don't have to wade through the sewage of free-to-play games clicking "no" on in-app purchase requests and hiding spammy notifications. Just like I'd rather pay for streaming services with no ads rather than having to mute commercials on live TV or skip commercials on DVR'd TV.

It's not absurd to me to pay for platforms that attempt to preemptively remove filth rather than need to be on the constant lookout for filth. This is particularly true when most of these entire ecosystems (the web, app stores, video content) seem to be based on sneaking filth in front of your eyes at every available opportunity.
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romanoderoma 2099 days ago
Web notifications are a standard feature, meaning the APIs are in the web standard.

Making an hyperbole here, but wouldn't Mosaic 1993 edition solve every issue then?

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baddox 2099 days ago
Reasonable people can disagree about which features are and are not useful. And those reasonable people can purchase smartphones and computers which best cater to their own views about these features.
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romanoderoma 2099 days ago
True, but reasonable people that know about web notifications API are less than 1% of Apple customers...
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baddox 2098 days ago
That sounds like a great reason to not let every trashy website in the world to spam them asking if they want to enable notifications.
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romanoderoma 2098 days ago
But is it Apple's call?

I mean, removing features of course makes software more secure

I argue that disabling JavaScript would only bring great benefits to humanity

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baddox 2098 days ago
If Apple had a dominant market position in smartphones then one could argue that end customers don't have much of a choice, but Apple only has at most 50% market share in the US and much lower globally. For my own smartphone usage I would much rather Apple choosing which features and APIs that third-party developers (of apps and websites) can use rather than those developers being able to do whatever they want. I think it's pretty clear that developers tends to have a much more hostile relationship with their end users than Apple does with their customers.
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tekknik 2098 days ago
> But is it Apple's call?

Yes, just like you’re free to never visit an annoying website asking to spam notifications you’re free to take away Apple’s decision making power you grant them by simply not buying an iphone.

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