Sideloading
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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Open the closed ecosystem and make them much more repair friendly.
Right To Repair!
Preach!
Open Standards
- iMessage use and donate to XMPP foundation
- iCloud federate with nextcloud
- Airdrop support LocalShare
- Maps support contributions to OSM
- Wifi share by qr code
- Home direct Home Assistant support
- Homepod support for home assistant plug-ins
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The parental controls should work consistently and reliably.
iOS telling you what you can't install should be a crime.
Someone should go to jail.
I’ll go you one better. MacOS telling you what you can’t install.
~(Yes, I have mostly defeated it, but it’s the principle.)~
... if any desktop computer treats you like iOS treats everyone, it's molotov time.
Or at the very least:
I don’t disagree. My problem is that all the alternatives are worse. At least, in my opinion, and for my use case.
Make things more serviceable. I miss the eras of Ram upgrades and drive replacements. I’d also put an SD card slot back on the MacBook Air.
Maybe fire Alan Dye.
I would say a return to what made them so great when osx came out. One person mentioned open standards which would be part of that but also that their machines were known for power and options as oppose to minimal designs. Lots of ports with strong processors and memory. Also apple care that pretty much was total coverage for three years. This is why I was a big mac fan in the aughts and went away from it in the teens. When the mac store responded to power cable fraying and usage and not just remediating it, when we could not plug into an external monitor without a dongle, when they dropped the cool server edition. The iphone was incredible as were smartphones in general but when they applied that to the whole ecosystem it was like not having a real laptop anymore.
You’re spot on, my friend.
Users would be able to install apps from anywhere like MacOS. No more monopoly on app distribution.
Allow apps to natively integrate alternative cloud services like Google Drive or DropBox. So many apps sync directly to iCloud, but have no way of natively changing that default sync location. Ran into this issue a while ago, where my work uses iPads in the field, but they can’t sync anything with each other because my employer has fully committed to the Google ecosystem. So I can’t just grab any iPad off of the charging rack and continue where I left off; I need to grab the specific iPad that I was using last time.
This will be addressed in the EU, it is anticompetitive
I like the old wedge shaped macbook airs. Go back to that shape. I'm not leaving my m1 air until then.
I'd try the crazy upcharge for better specs. A base Mac mini is competitively priced at like 700€ and then they want a whopping 500€ extra for additional 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD.
I used to work at the Apple Store from 2007 to 2012 I think. A large part of that time I was a One To One trainer, back when that existed (Before that, I was an iOS device tech aka “Family Room Specialist”). A lot of people would come in with brand new computers they bought or looking for help to upgrade their computer to a newer model, and I would of course assist, and every single time, when they asked me if they should do the ram upgrades, every single time, I told them no. And I told them go to crucial.com and I will help you pick out the correct RAM and I will fucking install it for you when you come into your next appointment. Obviously this was back when RAM was user configurable. Boy those were the days.
- Tim Cook. Who gave money to Trump
- The opaque way money is taken from your account, and it is not clear what it is for, nor easy to stop
The money thing is very Amazon-esque.
I was actually pleased that it came out of Tim’s pocket and not the corporation.
It is blatant corruption - (yes I know it is not illegal but it should be). From outside the USA it seems astonishing that Americans are so at ease with it
Americans yearn to walked on.
Some of us are, some of us aren’t.
The entirety of iOS.