[IgorPartola]

These posts do have a very specific feel to them, in that it's about how a perfectly rational engineering decision leads to bad UX. Upgrades that lock down the system further are probably good for most people, but not for developers. Missed payment leads to account lockdown is how an engineer would think to set things up, but not someone who's advocating for the user's experience. All the stuff with their new chips.

You could be right that this is someone sniping at their issues and maybe playing the market at the same time. Even if it is a larger evil competitor, these do seem like legitimate problems.

[zepto]

> Even if it is a larger evil competitor, these do seem like legitimate problems.

I’m asserting that they are likely to be legitimate.

My suggestion is that the reason we are hearing about them so much at the moment could be Facebook’s influence in setting a tone which encourages people to write about problems we didn’t otherwise hear about.

But yes - it absolutely could be a symptom of a breakdown in management somewhere in Apple leading to more customer unfriendly policy outcomes. It wouldn’t be the first time they have gone through such phases.