18+ puppygirlhornypost, 1 month ago

@MartyFouts @princessnorah @DJDarren I remember when apple released touch ID, and I remember when the first screen repairs were accomplished and it was found out that if you replace the touch ID button it no longer works. I remember when the trend (before apple changed it due to mass public backlash) was to keep the touchID plugged in and remove the screen assembly from the touchID button instead of replacing the entire assembly. While that sounds minor to people who would only replace their screen maybe once or twice consider when you are doing iphone repairs in bulk that it's a lot easier to just replace the entire assembly (and cheaper when you account for things like labor, how long does it take to sit there and pry out the button without damaging it and so on).

I remember the early jailbreak scene, watching over time how Saurik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Freeman) grew to resent it because it became less and less of unlocking capabilities and more of making a Cywgin for iOS. I remember the countless ways apple deployed cryptography in things like iBoot to lock it down and prevent jailbreaking at all cost under the guise of "security". I think that yeah fixing the drive by jailbreaking exploits in safari was a security thing, apple could have provided a way to unlock things. I remember watching how iOS became more and more guarded. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-may-15-la-fi-iphone-hearing-20100515-story.html I remember stories like this, the secrecy around everything. I find it so ironic that people are just now picking up on the fact the app store is a problem, when jailbreakers for decades have been pointing that out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhEIsdG01Lw I remember watching over time as iphones became increasingly difficult to repair, and while yes that is a con of the form factor there are things apple could do differently to ease the repair process. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9006988/Mass-suicide-protest-at-Apple-manufacturer-Foxconn-factory.html I remember stories like these https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract

It is for this reason I will never give apple the benefit of the doubt, especially considering its early history before 2010, Steve Jobs fucked over a lot of people. I remember when he threw that tantrum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT and created NeXT. I remember the purposefully misleading advertisements regarding "mac vs pc" that apple played off (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo). Advertising macs as computers that don't have viruses (oh how times have changed! it's almost as if any operating system is capable of having malicious software written for it, just needs to have a big enough user base to have targets and incentives to do so). Apple relies on its closed ecosystem to accomplish things and to stifle out competition on their platform. It is so obvious to anyone who has taken a couple of glances at Apple's history. I'm lucky because I was forced to watch documentaries on Steve Jobs in school, Jobs was a salesman not an engineer. He proclaimed himself as a "visionary" when in reality I think he was one of the first techbros spewing buzzwords and forcing people to make the technology to match his visions. I admire the first iphones, I still use iphones but Apple is very much not a good faith company.