Re: Awful rants

Op 05/07/2025 om 23:03 schreef Ed Cryer:

sobriquet wrote:

Op 05/07/2025 om 20:04 schreef Ed Cryer:

Why do only complaints and rants about how awful iPads are get posted here?
I use several iPads; and they work well for me, enrich my life.
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Why don't we see postings such as; How do I do this or that? What's an app for doing ....? What are best free games?
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Ed

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I have an ipad and regularly use it, I think there are good reasons to complain about the ipad. On the other hand it also works to some degree, so it's not all negative. It's just that apple intentionally makes many things very hard. I also have an android device and though there are complaints that would apply to both android and apple (like all the useless crap apps that primarily seem intended to rip people off), in many respects android does many things much better, like how comparatively easy it is
to access the file system.
You may feel that it works well for you, but perhaps you are simply not a very demanding user and you are easily satisfied because you are unaware of what's possible and to what degree apple obstructs people from exploiting the full potential of information technology.
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The future still looks bright with developments in AI and hopefully tech tyrants like apple and google will soon be consigned to the recycle bin of historical curiosities, once AI revolutionizes information technology. At that point we can all agree to get rid of a pseudo- capitalist system with fake competition (given all the monopoly power big corporations have with neither transparency nor accountability) that drives humanity to the brink of self-annihilation by producing way too much useless garbage. We're already living in the age of abundance with all the culture freely accessible online.

 iPads and iPhones look very closed systems to computer professionals and people brought up on the early versions of Windows.
But why does (an did from the start) Apple do it?
To protect their copyright and interests?
Maybe.
But, how about this? To protect the non-savvy? To ward off the scammers from the millions of buyers who wouldn't buy if they weren't safe?
 Look at how Windows is going. MS are following Apple and the path to protection. Look at how they've even had to jettison billions of dollars of customers' hardware with the introduction of Windows 11 with its TPM and other security measures.
 The criminal world has grown tech-savvy, and it's the young and old that get scorched.
How would you feel about walking the streets of Old Town in some major western city without police available and all lights on at night?
 Ed
 

I think people have more to worry about social engineering in combination with AI, but the way big tech rips people off is more surreptitious and not all damage can be expressed in monetary terms, like when their violate your human rights.
Also, with new developments things can change so radically that we can transform society in ways that completely restructure things in terms
of achieving much higher education, so people can exercise more autonomy and more freedom and responsibility because they can make better informed decisions and we can overhaul the entire sociopolitical system employing the power of information technology combined with AI.
At that point there might be no more corporations, political parties and other outdated modes of societal organization, because we can use AI to manage the way humanity organizes things on the planet collectively without resorting to the kind of idiotic violence we see today between nation states.