Post ApVwKnPFN2mCUuPKym by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #ApTFzpQC68rmH9FZvk by praxeology@post.lurk.org
2024-12-13T12:24:50Z
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Maybe we should stop calling them *Notifications* and instead refer to *Interruptions*."Working on some stuff so I've turned off interruptions for a while.""Right on."
(DIR) Post #ApVwKiPPwywSzzRu3E by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2024-12-14T13:47:10Z
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@praxeologyI kinda liked how notifications worked in classic iOS: A little window would pop up in front of everything, and you could acknowledge or dismiss it, and then it was gone forever.They really were interruptions, and you didn't tend to enable them for too many apps.Now the notification center is just another horrid inbox to go through. XD
(DIR) Post #ApVwKjSI3mpmFBniAS by sam@fed.eitilt.life
2024-12-17T16:53:34Z
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This so much! There are certainly things I need to get notified about. Do I have to be notified about it right then? (In the case of "drink some water so you don't dehydrate yourself", unfortunately, yes, I do. In the case of "this person liked your post", what am I going to do about that in the next fifteen seconds that I couldn't do in several hours?) Even if I do need the immediacy, will I ever have any reason to go back to it after seeing and dismissing it?I guess that's what happens when one of our primary computer providers is an ad business. Who's up for overthrowing Google? 🙃RE: @RL_Dane@fosstodon.orgCC: @sean@social.massalabs.com @praxeology@post.lurk.org
(DIR) Post #ApVwKkUoBuRVTHzEjQ by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2024-12-17T17:21:38Z
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@sam @sean @praxeology Even Apple is an ad company. I've been off of iOS for four years now, and I was utterly shocked to see ads in the iOS App Store on a family member's phone a year or two ago. Pretty shameless!
(DIR) Post #ApVwKl7RsFLpP845xY by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2024-12-24T10:23:43Z
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@RL_Dane @sam @sean @praxeology well, but google‘s business model is ads, while apple primarily sells you hardware. Quite a difference. Only very very few apps may send me notifications, and I strictly disable notifications for every app who sends me shit to remind me of their existence. And often the app as well.
(DIR) Post #ApVwKle3uzRH2HK8nI by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2024-12-24T11:34:03Z
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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology Apple's business model is not hardware anymore. It hasn't been in some time.Precisely what it IS is rather difficult to nail down, though. It's not strictly hardware, It's not software, it's kind of an ecosystem, and it's kind of a cult.
(DIR) Post #ApVwKmWee16jlarjt2 by Mastokarl@mastodon.social
2024-12-24T12:51:53Z
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@RL_Dane @sam @sean @praxeology if ChatGPT did its web search right and I did the math right then 75% of apple‘s revenue is still hardware with the iPhone taking 49%. ads are just 1%(Nb this is not so important to me that I checked ChatGPT‘s web search result, might be wrong)
(DIR) Post #ApVwKnPFN2mCUuPKym by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2024-12-24T15:55:06Z
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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeologyOh, I do get it. Hardware is the gross majority of their revenue. I don't even have to check ChatGPT's work on that one, even though I don't generally trust it to be factually accurate any more than I could lob a 747 across a football field.But (and this is a tenuous argument to make, so bear with me)... just because their income is from hardware doesn't necessarily make them a hardware company.... 1/4
(DIR) Post #ApVwKo5mosnucqJJHk by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2024-12-24T15:55:27Z
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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology... 2/4Their business model isn't straight-up hardware. Delta, the faucet company? THAT is hardware. Intel? Hardware. AMD? Hardware. NVIDIA? Hardware.#Apple though? Yes, they make their money FROM hardware... but they do not make their money BECAUSE of hardware. They make their money because of vendor lock-in, reputation, and their vaunted ecosystem....
(DIR) Post #ApVwKowbeV3TGf1UcC by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2024-12-24T15:55:50Z
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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology... 3/4The only reason I would buy an iPhone would be... because the hardware is great? Heck no. The hardware is trivial to replace/repoduce. Samsung makes far better hardware, IMHO, and I've never had a Samsung phone. It's the interplay between hardware, software, ecosystem, luxury brand status, and vendor lock-in.People don't buy iPhones because they're great phones. They're GOOD, but pretty grossly overpriced phones....
(DIR) Post #ApVwKpnmSnabvZtxUu by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2024-12-24T15:55:57Z
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@Mastokarl @sam @sean @praxeology... 4/4PEOPLE BUY iPHONES SO THAT THEY CAN FACETIME THEIR MOM.People buy iPhones so they can have freaking blue-bubble status in chats.People buy iPhones not because they are good, but because they are iPhones.That is simply not a hardware company. It's a luxury brand. It's a corporate cult. It's... something else, man. :/
(DIR) Post #ApVwKqSC2XupwuoEUK by clacke@libranet.de
2024-12-27T10:59:07Z
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@RL_Dane An iPhone is a hardware dongle for an iOS license.@Mastokarl @sean @sam @praxeology
(DIR) Post #ApVwKrArMTe2BRhu6q by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2024-12-28T02:08:11Z
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@clacke @praxeology @Mastokarl @sean @samI guess? I don't think they care so much about restricting the usage of iOS to specific hardware (like an old fashioned hardware copy protection dongle) as they do restricting what *you* do with the hardware and software so that you're beholden to their "ecosystem."admiral_ackbar_its_a_trap.mp4