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  • Re: Apple says App Store developers have earned $60 billion in 2021

    From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to sms on Thu Jan 13 04:10:27 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.privacy

    On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:45:57 -0800, sms wrote:

    I suppose that if a development platform is able to generate dual
    platform apps, that use functionality not available in iOS, that there
    would be some indication to the developer that some of the functionality would not be present on the iOS version.

    Hopefully the app developer would be aware of the differences in capabilities.

    The problem is that Apple prevents the market from accessing operating
    system functionality that Google can't prevent the developers from using.

    Take the words right out of the mouth of the Tor Project, for example.
    <https://support.torproject.org/tormobile/tormobile-3/>
    "Can I run Tor Browser on an iOS device?
    We recommend an iOS app called Onion Browser, which is open source,
    uses Tor routing, and is developed by someone who works closely with
    the Tor Project. However, Apple requires browsers on iOS to use
    something called Webkit, which prevents Onion Browser from having
    the same privacy protections as Tor Browser."

    This instance is just one of so many that anyone who doesn't realize how crippled iOS is, is simply ignorant of the basic facts about why iOS can't
    do what _every_ other common consumer operating system already does
    (including the Mac).

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  • From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to sms on Thu Jan 13 16:51:14 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:07:22 -0500, nospam wrote:

    On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:10:46 -0800, sms wrote:
    There is if the app developed for iOS is better.
    Often that is not possible.
    There are limits imposed by Apple that limit the functionality of some apps.
    wrong. it's always possible to write native apps.

    If that's true, where is the system-wide firewall native app for iOS?

    There are limits imposed by Apple that limit
    the functionality of some apps.

    almost none, and not relevant to a cross-platform framework, which
    imposes its own limits in functionality.

    If Apple isn't imposing these limits on functionality, nospam, then...
    *Why can't the Tor Project write an anonymous browser for iOS nospam?*

    there are also numerous limits with android, mostly due to android
    lacking many of the apis and functionality in ios...

    Name just one.

    along with it being harder to write android apps.

    How is it harder to write Android apps using Android Studio as you claim?

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 13 12:54:41 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    In article <srpla1$122g$[email protected]>, Andy Burnelli
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    There is if the app developed for iOS is better.
    Often that is not possible.
    There are limits imposed by Apple that limit the functionality of some
    apps.
    wrong. it's always possible to write native apps.

    If that's true,

    it is for ios, macos, windows and linux.

    amusingly, it's *not* possible to write a fully native app on android
    due to android apps running in a virtual machine.

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Runtime>
    Android Runtime (ART) is an application runtime environment used
    by the Android operating system. Replacing Dalvik, the process
    virtual machine originally used by Android, ART performs the
    translation of the application's bytecode into native instructions
    that are later executed by the device's runtime environment.

    that alone adds overhead, which means ios apps will always be faster
    than the equivalent android app, all things being equal.

    where is the system-wide firewall native app for iOS?

    firewalls have nothing to do with the above claim, but nevertheless,
    there are several system-wide firewalls available on the app store.

    some of them have previously been discussed, but as usual, you ignore
    all of it because you do not understand what ios can do and just want
    to troll.

    even more amusing is that ios firewalls work in the same manner as on
    android, but unlike on android, the ios counterparts do *not* interfere
    with other device functionality, as it does on android.



    along with it being harder to write android apps.

    How is it harder to write Android apps using Android Studio as you claim?

    hilarious.

    the person who can't manage to get android sample code to work is
    asking why android app development is harder than for ios.

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  • From Andy Burnelli@21:1/5 to nospam on Thu Jan 13 23:14:18 2022
    XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone

    On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:54:41 -0500, nospam wrote:

    that alone adds overhead, which means ios apps will always be faster
    than the equivalent android app, all things being equal.

    All things being equal?
    You're joking, right?

    You think there is equal hardware at similar price points, nospam?
    Really?

    Tell us nospam, at any given price point, how much RAM is in the typical Android phone versus the typical iOS iPhone at that same price point?

    HINT: My _free_ 8-core 2GHz Android Samsung Galaxy A32-5G has 4GB of RAM.
    --
    <https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a32_5g-10648.php>

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