alt Hacker News>Apple's customers generally have more of a "save us from ourselves" mentality.
FWIW, this could also be described as a "My phone is a tool and not a hobby project" mentality. That is half of what prompted me to change daily drivers from Android to iOS.
I do not get as much freedom for my apps to do whatever I want - but I don't need to do as much work vetting developers or tinkering either. It's a tradeoff of time priority.
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I strongly disagree. The difference is "I control my phone vs. my phone is controlled by the vendor".
Or "My phone is a computing device vs. my phone is vendor-specified use-case tool".
I don't know if I agree, my Android phone is a tool just fine. I can make it a hobby project, if I want, but I can just keep it a tool if I don't.
Isn't the process of vetting a developer a subset of the process for finding a good app for doing a certain task?
This is not about tinkering. My phone is a toolbox, the apps are the tools and Google keeps breaking them in order to make their tools seem better. I need to get real work done using my phone and being able to sync files with a server is a critical part of that. I can't use Google Drive instead for many reasons, but that's besides the point, because this is illegal anticompetitive behaviour.
As far as I know, Apple also doesn't let you sync folders like this, so that's not a solution. And regardless, Apple cripples many other tools that I rely on.