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On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:48:50 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:

> Correction. It is optimised for 95% of all users. 
> 
> All functionality you mention is of no interests to the average android
> user either. Of course, if those are genuinely things you want to do -
> other than simply grind your axe - then ios is not for you. It's called
> freedom of choice.

I knew ahead of time you'd say that all functionality that all other
operating systems have is "not needed" & "not wanted" by iOS users.

I haven't even started to list the functionality that iOS can't do that all
other operating systems easily do - such as system-wide firewalls.

But you'll say that only iOS users feel firewalls are "not needed" & "not
wanted" because that's your excuse for why iOS can't do anything useful.

Given the system-wide firewall on Android is also a system wide ad blocker,
you'll say that only iOS users feel system-wide ad blocking is "not needed"
& "not wanted" because that's your excuse for why iOS can't do anything
useful.

Regarding that Android can always extract the installation APK to use on
any Android device - not just ones with your google account - and
especially noting how crippled the iOS IPA installation process is (given
iOS is almost completely brain dead in terms of using an IPA for multiple
devices, each with a different Apple ID), you'd say the ability to install
tools on an iOS device (particularly ones no longer in the app store) is
yet another functionality every other platform enjoys that is "not needed"
& "not wanted" on iOS as your fundamental excuse for why iOS can't do
anything useful in the real world.

If I mentioned that every other operating system except iOS has waveform
tools to help you debug your WI-Fi and cellular signal (if the device has
the appropriate radios, of course), again you'd say that nobody on iOS
every has a need to debug Wi-Fi or cellular and hence, such useful tools in
the real world are, in your mind, "not needed" & "not wanted" in the toy
world of the iOS user.

I could list more than a hundred rather useful things that everyone can
easily do except iOS users, and you'd say that useful things are "not
needed" and "not wanted" as your fundamental excuse for why iOS can't do
what every other operating system easily does.

All you're really saying is that the real world is not what iOS was
designed for, since iOS only works within limitations of the walled garden.

Apple designed iOS to be a toy operating system that only works within the
extreme limitations of the infamous Apple walled garden & not in the real
world.

And your own excuses aptly prove that iOS is exactly that. A toy.