Pretty much everyone I know who has ditched iOS has done so because of this reason. Seems to me like the author is just a bit behind and finally caught on.
I love the Apple hardware, dislike the closed options I get on iOS.
This is what happens when you market a phone as something that "just works". It's great that iOS is able to be used by kindergarten-level children, but at the same time, it's not.
My next phone is going to be Android-based, because I believe that I can handle using mobile devices expecting users to be able to think critically.
You might have a perspective problem. A mobile device that expects you to "think critically"? Come on now.
Some people enjoy building and tweaking PCs. Most don't. Some people enjoy tinkering on their cars. Most don't. Some people enjoy tinkering with their phone, "thinking critically" while using it; most don't.
I enjoy endless tinkering with servers, caches, micro-optimizations, and so forth. But I can't stand tinkering with my tools -- I prefer to tinker with other things using my tools. I consider my phone a tool.
Not everyone is like me, and not everyone is like you. There's no right or wrong, just preference.
> Not everyone is like me, and not everyone is like you. There's no right or wrong, just preference.
I never said there was. The poster I was responding to said that he disliked the closed environment iOS provides. Perhaps my wording was a bit more confrontational that I meant, but my comment still stands:
Apple's products are not marketed to or designed for power users.
That's really all I meant by it. I never said that everyone is like everyone else; they're not. Many people who enjoy tinkering use Apple's phones. These people are, as is apparent to me now (hence my buying an Android next), better off using an open platform like Android.
As an aside, it's just as easy to classify servers and caches as tools that should "just work". It's about perspective, and preference.
Pretty much everyone I know who has ditched iOS has done so because of this reason. Seems to me like the author is just a bit behind and finally caught on.
I love the Apple hardware, dislike the closed options I get on iOS.