Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 05:04:09 +0000 Subject: Re: An example of app development in the real world which is impossible with iOS From: danmin@danminart-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Danart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: newsSync 664889641 References: Message-ID: Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 05:04:09 +0000 Lines: 89 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-UVLqYMP75j6BW4TpF10nemWn3w1b/d7E8d1HivjfcTKbLSXQYEsY87WJ2gjWjI3mySaqR90BbDE6tOw!mvb9ZMDBUJmdMtQDNYo3VXArQEnDVgAnBA9G+P0Ok84l4kS5xsKqE//Ta4IXyNgjrvU8Wp25DXcw!rg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4226 X-Original-Lines: 1 > Andrew wrote: > This recent thread is an example of how app development can happen in the > real world where one developer abandons an app, and other developers pick > it up, and then they ask for user input and they add everything people > want. > > *Android Usenet news newsreader* > https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=51238&group=comp.mobile.android#51238 > > Not only is the iPhone a dumb terminal that has nothing by way of > functionality that Android didn't have on free phones years ago, > but you can't update iOS and then load & test an APK in the real world > like this Pia Hong Usenet newsreader was recently improved that way. > > Compare the brain-dead functionality of NewsTap, for example, to > that of this PiaHong Android Usenet Newsreader recently improved. > > Name: OC-ModNewsReader 2.02.M17.apk > Size: 3926860 bytes (3834 KiB) > SHA256: BB05B9FD454AD8D38047484FEA338DE9FDAB056F56B66D39C114162A53883815 > https://mega.nz/file/uYJSwBJD#3Ya4p0HpSczyt95c_MnXjyBXYqP5J_Phkz0gZ9RbkCI > > Such useful collaborative work on old apps no longer updated by their > developers is impossible with iOS and yet - it's rather common on Android. > > Which is why Android does hundreds of useful things that iOS can't do, and > yet, there's nothing whatsoever by way of functionality that iOS does that > Android doesn't already do (usually on an old free Android phone too!). > > The reason iOS is brain dead compared to Android is both obvious & simple: > a. Most functionality is provided by developers > b. Apple severely restricts what developers can provide > c. Google can't. > > Even when Apple provides an app (such as the iOS camera app), there's no > competition, so again, iOS is brain dead within apps compared to Android. > > The end result shows why iOS devices don't actually work in the real world. iOS is for people who do not know computers. That is the Apple way. It is literally based off Steve Jobbs association with women after he made it big. Like his daughters mother whom he called a $#$@. People like that who sleeps around and goes partying. That is what Apple is really about. Computers for non computer people. OSX ( even now ) runs on a form of Unix called BSD. Apple licensed it out, so they could have as much support and have no problems in the future. Might as well just learn Linux and install Ubuntu and ignore Apple all together unless you like checks after checks in your software. Apple ( Jobbs ) wanted control. He saw the future. You do not pay for the ownership of the software just the usage of it. ......................... What is funny is how many people are porting there iOS apps to Android and PC and watching their sales actually rise. iOS is like saying "I am a Linux user and do not even know it", where android admits that it is Linux at some parts of it's execution. Is iOS in your Smart-TV's ? NO. Is iOS a desktop system now gone portable ? Nope. This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=664612621#664612621