![]() I can find plenty of $40 smartphones at Wal-Mart and Kroger. ![]() That probably contributes to the downvotes. It comes off as rude, arrogant, and accusatory. > "Looks like you need the reality check"ĮDIT: saying things like "If you think I'm wrong, you very well may need a reality check yourself" makes it seem like you're not open to dialogue. The contrast between the "it just works"-ness of the app store, and the hoops you need to jump through to get free apps is jarring. The number of people who jailbreak their phones is a tiny minority of iOS users, and the number of people who do so to pirate is an even tinier minority of that.Įven as someone that has no moral issues with downloading apps for free, I can tell you that it's not worth it on iOS. It would fail on the basic use case of one user with one app store account installing the app on more than one device (especially with kid friendly games like this), or re installs after a device wipe, or reinstalls after a user with a busted phone gets a new one, and so on.Īs usual, bad statistics being used in defense of the piracy bogeyman. then there's a huge problem with their methodology. (number of changeable UIDs that touched our server) - (app store sales) = copies we should have been paid for Apple doesn't allow app authors to have access to an unchanging ID of a device, so if they're doing something like Those numbers are somewhat sketchy if I recall right. I'm not enthusiastic about heading into the no-user-serviceable-parts world but it's not like the traditional PC model has worked out well when the majority of non-technical users has some level of dread/acceptance that they'll make a mistake and be compromised. ![]() I've reconsidered my previous cynical conclusion that this was just to boost the app store profits based on the number of people I've heard mention using an iPad because they don't have to worry about installing programs now I think the real profit comes from the trust in the platform – you need an awful lot of $.30 app profits to balance out a single device purchase. ), install custom Android apps which then exfiltrate data or attempt local exploits, etc.Īpple chose not to allow that for iOS to ban that class of attacks outright. We live in a world where millions of people have fallen for attacks which required them to type in their admin password and okay a software install, open the web console and paste JavaScript in to compromise their own account (see e.g. I agree with that feeling wrong but consider it from the perspective of anyone who cares about security. > Also, it stinks that Apple has nailed iOS that shut that even as a knowledgeable user you are not able to bypass it. but I also admit that like many things, my previous bad experiences may be causing confirmation bias and leading me to take note of iTunes issues more than I would with other software. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong and it will run better if I open it more often and let it do its thing but there's just a point where it doesn't do anything (other than iOS backups) that I can't do more easily with other software. I haven't found a way to disable all of the various iTunes helper processes that want to run in the background (short of turning them off in services.msc) so it only gets updated and run when absolutely necessary. I seem to remember installing some custom firmware on the iPod specifically so I could just treat it like an external drive and manage the media on it via Winamp or Mediamonkey or some other program that had no business doing a better job at handling an iPod than something straight from Apple.Įven now I just use it maybe once or twice a year to back up and update my old iPad 2. ![]() I can almost understand this on the newer versions since they've made it a sort of one-stop-shop for playing media, managing iOS devices, shopping for media and software, and sorting your content databases.īut the older versions I used back when I had a "classic" iPod were just terrible and all I did with that was load music onto the iPod. My main computer is no dog either (i7, 16GB RAM, SSD, yadda yadda) and compared to other media player/managers it really is a poor performer. To continue the mostly-irrelevant story time, I've installed it a few times and generally it works OK now but it is still quite slow for what it is. ![]()
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