We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this http://archive.today/2024.02.26-223134/https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6adc
It seems the solution is simple. Don’t use apple products anymore. Windows or linux.
Unlike apple, there’s ways to make windows private and secure and most distros of linux are mostly private and mostly secure
Windows is the one where I need an account to install and that spies on me and throws ads in my face, that one?
Like I said, there’s ways to make it private. And there’s ways to block the ads. There’s ways to use it without a Microsoft account too.
Apple devices have a second network adapter to bypass your VPN and any adblocking software you have to serve you locally relevant ads.
Source? A quick search didn’t turn up anything.
search results are always being tampered with. Which search engine did you use? They may have back-peddled on that due to security concerns…or maybe someone in the executive room has a soul and convinced the others not to do it.
Or maybe they’re already doing it and there aren’t any apple users that know about it, because unlike windows and linux, you have no control and no way of getting control over your apple devices.
You don’t need an account. De-bloating scripts take care of most other annoyances. You can fairly easily beat windows into submission
Technically true but worthless to your average consumer. You need to interrupt the installation process, enter a command in a terminal after knowing how to access the terminal and then you can use a local account.
This is worthless to your average person.
The same argument applies when Linux neckbeards waddle out of a basement to declare something is simple; just open terminal and do Y.
The average consumer doesn’t know what NTFS or FAT32 is. I don’t think they’ll understand the privacy implications of Windows reporting.
Not tried in a while but it used to just be a case of leaving it disconnected from the net during setup.
Failing that you can still sign up with a throwaway account and convert it to local in the options after installation iirc. It’s not ideal but it’s still something at least.
There are additional steps now which I mentioned.
Too bad when more and more people buy Apple phones for some reason, well at least where I live (which is the poorer part of central Europe), I have no idea how people can spend this kind of money for a 4 or 5 year phone, when you can buy something more capable for the same money and you will actually know it will get supported with updates for more than 2 years
Can’t wait for this to be more widespread in the future to the point iMessage will be the messaging standard
Same reason poor people buy overpriced designer handbags. Status symbol…
It’s mostly a moot point anyway. The vast majority of people who buy apple products “for some reason” will have no frame of reference or desire to learn what has changed as far as web apps are concerned.
What I always found odd is that many people will try Android. And at the first problem they’ll switch to iPhone.
However the iPhone may demonstrate the same exact problem, among many more, yet they just deal with it anyway.
Probably because on Android there is likely a way to fix it, but it involves a bit of research and picking the best way.
Whereas on iPhone, thats yhe wayvits intended to be so “suck it up”.
Some people just dont want to have to deal with the choices
This topic is about mobile devices, not desktop. Last I checked, Windows and Linux aren’t mobile OS’s.
Android is LTS kernel + Google patches. I know it’s not the flavor of Linux you are talking about, but most of my apps are side loaded via F-Droid and a few from Aurora as a Play store proxy on a de-Googled ROM (GrapheneOS). There is no walled garden here.
The most relevant part to this discussion is that Android doesn’t restrict Web browsers. On Apple, all Web browsers, even Firefox, are nothing but reskins of Safari.
So their restrictions on Web apps affects all Web browsers on IOS because they only allow their own html engine.
It’s absolutely insane how far we have fallen from the 90’s. Back then MS got in trouble just for including a browser with the OS. Now Apple has the majority market share in the US and is allowed to not only to bundle their own browser, but doesn’t allow any other browser other than their own.
There are mobile Linux distros.
I am looking forward to installing Ubuntu Touch on my device:
https://ubuntu-touch.io/
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/
There are also a bunch of others, which I haven’t looked into.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_mobile_devices
Windows is a disgrace.
How is Windows ever an option? What a troll
Although I agree with you it is not a good choice.
Depending on your threat model it is acceptable. Everyone has different trade offs.
Not only about threat models, some software is simply available for Windows only. If you need it for work, you’re stuck, and that’s that.
Why windows… apple does a better job in general and that’s saying something
“In general” isn’t really a metric you can use to compare operating systems.
Apple isn’t an operating system