Because Apple are: closed system, unrepairable, proprietary, refuse to adopt standards, elitist and exclusionary, and generally less flexible and customizable. They are a baby toy, they are any recent BMW, and they are jerks about it.
And somehow, that's becoming the better option over thieves and scammers with bad intentions. I may have to go with the assholes over the bastards. It doesn't feel great.
Big fucking sigh. I've been an Android user since the T-mobile G1, and I have ferociously defended the platform against iPhone for that entire time.
Is there a 3rd option? Or do I have to learn to love the enemy? I won't be a part of the problem with privacy just because I'm too lazy to change.
I was looking for a foot rest for my outdoor hanging chair this past weekend. So I searched for "hanging chair foot rest". Apparently, there are really popular products out there that are foot rests that hang under your desk, or on an airplane seat, and it clogged up the results. It isn't what I wanted, but it was all I got.
So I searched for "hanging chair foot rest -desk -airplane". And I found that modifiers don't fucking work for Google shopping. They have disabled operators completely. I'm trying to find what I want using methods that used to work fine, and you're saying "no... what you want is this thing you told us you didn't want."
Google sucks. Eat dicks Google.
This line: "The move may be an effort by the firm to improve its financials ahead of a potential initial public offering."
Isn't that confirmed bullshit? I thought every developer had already said that the API costs were so high that they were going to shut down. Are there developers who were willing to pay?
You don't improve your financials by putting a price on things. You only improve them if you actually collect money.
I love the idea, and would be willing to be an early adopter of a linux phone... but its tough to give up application support.