> And apps that don’t fit those use cases - what are they doing with your device?
What I, the owner of my device, have directed them to do.
Apple's approach makes easy things difficult (because one must use their APIs) and difficult things impossible (because Apple have decided that purchasers of their devices shouldn't be permitted to do things Apple wishes them not to do).
I want a general-purpose computer that I own & control in my pocket, not some stripped-down communicator owned & control by someone else.
What I, the owner of my device, have directed them to do.
Apple's approach makes easy things difficult (because one must use their APIs) and difficult things impossible (because Apple have decided that purchasers of their devices shouldn't be permitted to do things Apple wishes them not to do).
I want a general-purpose computer that I own & control in my pocket, not some stripped-down communicator owned & control by someone else.