XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: walterjones@invalid.nospam   
      
   candycanearter07  wrote   
      
   > Just because customers don't care about something doesn't mean it's not   
   > nice to have the option.   
      
   The classic excuse for iKooks is nobody wants functionality on iOS.   
      And... "Nobody needs functionality on iOS*   
      
   If people "didn't care" about these things, all of which are impossible on   
   iOS, why is it every other operating system _except iOS_ can do them?   
      
   The iPhone can't set even the simplest of defaults for example it can't set   
   the default messenger or the default launcher or the default dialer.   
   It can't do automatic call recording for another glaring example.   
   The launcher for iOS is permanently locked and is as primitive as it gets.   
   The iOS spoofing of GPS is comically ridiculously crazy in that you have to   
   put a complete computer in your back pocket just to get iOS spoofing.   
   Likewise you need an entire computer just to easily back up your apps,   
   and worse, the iOS app backup is braindead compared to how APKs work.   
   There isn't any possibility of graphical ad free YouTube downloading.   
   Neither is there any possibility of privacy without an Apple login.   
   There's no chance of using an on device system wide ad blocker.   
   And there's no possibility of a decently functional on device firewall.   
   You can't even graph Wi-Fi signal strength for debuggings, and, for that   
   matter, you can't graph cellular signal strength either on the iPhone.   
   You can't even install the only safe TOR browser out there on iOS.   
   On iOS you can't save every IPA fully and completely each time you install   
   it (merely by the act of installation), nor can you install it on another   
   iPhone if you haven't already backed it up (whereas on Android you can).   
   Speaking of backup, on iOS you can't extract all the IPAs (even for system   
   apps) like you can on Android, so that a version you like will be saved.   
   On iOS there's no chance of downloading apps without having an Apple   
   account, whereas on Android you don't need a Google account for anything.   
   Plus Apple inserts a unique tracker into every single IPA you install.   
   etc.   
      
   All this... the iKooks claim "nobody wants it" & "nobody needs it".   
      
   What it means is the iPhone just does NOT work.   
   Meanwhile, for Android, all that just works.   
      
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