| I reckon some people have an inherent need to keep things inside Apple’s walked garden. I often see it becoming nothing short of an obsession. For the rest I’d, as someone who gave it a try - almost their entire services suite including TV etc a thorough try, highly recommend to stay out. Stay out even if they improve it (which I doubt) from its current state i.e. pathetic. - Apple is a weird company but they are weird because they can afford to be weird in the way they are because they know their fan base (their majority/core users) - Their software and services have revisions/major updates/upgrades tied with OS versions. - Even across OS versions they so deliberately don’t add the most essential features and literally “hold back” as if they go completely deaf on user needs - I believe it stems of a inferior software engineering prowess and a lack of confidence - that “let’s keep it for the next OS release” so that we announce on stage “For the first time in any iOS - you can control two SIMs separately - TrueSIM™ - or named something ridiculously absurd. - They have repeatedly shown they’re not callous about user needs or feedback but they’re openly hostile to it. - The “just works” smoke is very much cleared by now and they’re either just too incompetent or stupidly adamant still trying to ride the fan wave of “they know what we want” and fans giddily shoving everything down their own throats claiming as the best whatever Apple churned out. I skew towards the former though. - Also they do not have real competition with other softwares, more so on iOS and iPadOS, unlike Android (which I develop for but am not a user of) you literally don’t have options of softwares for many basic usage. - Now one can argue they like it that way - I don’t. They have anyway such a locked down App Store - not letting users choose browser, SMS apps etc is just a poor excuse that they can somehow get away with. I would just treat them as a device seller and keep my software and services from other competent places. Besides I like my eggs in various baskets. The last thing I want is my email from a provider which 100% coupled with devices from one manufacturer that is locked down like never before in history and their locking users out puts Google’s famous locking out to shame. |
If you believe the things you wrote - weird, institutionally dishonest, hostile to its customers and grossly incompetent why would you buy anything ever from them?