From: ed@somewhere.in.the.uk   
      
   sobriquet wrote:   
   > Op 05/07/2025 om 20:04 schreef Ed Cryer:   
   >> Why do only complaints and rants about how awful iPads are get posted   
   >> here?   
   >> I use several iPads; and they work well for me, enrich my life.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Why don't we see postings such as; How do I do this or that? What's an   
   >> app for doing ....? What are best free games?   
   >>   
   >> Ed   
   >   
   > I have an ipad and regularly use it, I think there are good reasons to   
   > complain about the ipad. On the other hand it also works to some degree,   
   > so it's not all negative. It's just that apple intentionally makes many   
   > things very hard. I also have an android device and though there are   
   > complaints that would apply to both android and apple (like all the   
   > useless crap apps that primarily seem intended to rip people off), in   
   > many respects android does many things much better, like how   
   > comparatively easy it is   
   > to access the file system.   
   > You may feel that it works well for you, but perhaps you are simply not   
   > a very demanding user and you are easily satisfied because you are   
   > unaware of what's possible and to what degree apple obstructs people   
   > from exploiting the full potential of information technology.   
   >   
   > The future still looks bright with developments in AI and hopefully tech   
   > tyrants like apple and google will soon be consigned to the recycle bin   
   > of historical curiosities, once AI revolutionizes information   
   > technology. At that point we can all agree to get rid of a pseudo-   
   > capitalist system with fake competition (given all the monopoly power   
   > big corporations have with neither transparency nor accountability) that   
   > drives humanity to the brink of self-annihilation by producing way too   
   > much useless garbage. We're already living in the age of abundance with   
   > all the culture freely accessible online.   
      
   iPads and iPhones look very closed systems to computer professionals and   
   people brought up on the early versions of Windows.   
   But why does (an did from the start) Apple do it?   
   To protect their copyright and interests?   
   Maybe.   
   But, how about this? To protect the non-savvy? To ward off the scammers   
   from the millions of buyers who wouldn't buy if they weren't safe?   
      
   Look at how Windows is going. MS are following Apple and the path to   
   protection. Look at how they've even had to jettison billions of dollars   
   of customers' hardware with the introduction of Windows 11 with its TPM   
   and other security measures.   
      
   The criminal world has grown tech-savvy, and it's the young and old that   
   get scorched.   
   How would you feel about walking the streets of Old Town in some major   
   western city without police available and all lights on at night?   
      
   Ed   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)