Comment by zepto
4 years ago
> I underestimated the restrictiveness of the OS
This may not be something that is made clear in reviews, but it’s hard to see how someone could read HN and not see hundreds of comments about this.
4 years ago
> I underestimated the restrictiveness of the OS
This may not be something that is made clear in reviews, but it’s hard to see how someone could read HN and not see hundreds of comments about this.
I chose a product to the best of my abilities, and it turns out that it may not have been a right fit. Next time I will try another product. I don't see why that warrants such a confrontational tone and/or downvotes; nobody's perfect.
Hacker News users tend to take device choices pretty personally, unfortunately. It seems like the level to which they defend corporations is directly proportional to the amount of money they have sunk into their purchases. If you're looking for sympathy towards how truly reprehensible modern iOS/iPadOS is, you're not going to find it here. The majority will just tell you to get rid of it, since criticism is verboten wherever trillion-dollar companies are concerned.
You are one of many people who go to great pains to inform people on HN about how ‘truly reprehensible’ modern iOS/iPadOS is. Had they listened to you, they might have been saved from their mistake.
What surprises me is that a regular visitor to HN has not seen this opinion expressed. It also seems weird that they wouldn’t know that sideloading was a problem given how many front page stories have either attacked Apple over this policy or defended it.
I have sympathy for anyone who buys something they don’t end up liking. I’m just very surprised that this particular fact was somehow not known to an HN commenter.
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