"Requiring an account" means leaning in the Apple/Disney direction - upselling, walled gardens and milking captive customers. Dropping the account requirement is a symbolic (and practical!) step in the other direction, towards using the product as a tool.
That's fair, so is the outrage focused on Microsoft because they are a "more" open system without the app store being the default method of installing apps?
I guess I'm wondering why Apple and Google don't get the same pushback?
Okay, if it's that serious than apple should simply turn it on for everyone. Having toggles for Lockdown mode adds complexity and risk.
The number of users who currently know they need to toggle on lockdown, and would be confused by having toggles under it like "Disable JIT, Disable link previews", etc, is approximately 0.
The number of users who would turn on "disable link previews" and be more secure, but won't enable all of lockdown, is at least me, so that's more than 0. By that logic, it follows that splitting it out makes more users more secure, right?
Let me know where I'm wrong there. Do you legitimately think that there's risk of users knowing they need lockdown mode being unable to find it if there's additional settings added? I guess apple can't add any new settings anywhere.
Do you think that more settings means apple is more likely to introduce a bug that impacts security? I guess apple shouldn't be allowed to add any new settings anywhere.
Perhaps it's time to acknowledge you probably don't know what another persons situation is. Instead of trying to tell them what to do, allow them to choose.
No, lockdown mode isn't a feature for you to do random things. It's a feature to keep gays in Saudi Arabia alive. Non-Han Chinese alive in China. Journalists in Mexico alive.
If they have the option to turn off the life saving measure they will. Thats the way it goes. Bc we don't know which one is the life saving measures, and they depend on each other anyway
You guys are incredibly selfish and self centered to be acting this way
The average Non-Han Chinese person doesn't know lockdown mode exists.
If you want to frame it as a life-saving feature, it should be on by default and impossible to turn off, or at the very least should be a required prompt during initial phone setup.
I'm asking for something that will make more people more secure, since I personally know plenty of people who want iMessage security, but for the web to still be functional (i.e. JIT to work).
> If they have the option to turn off the life saving measure they will
Then they'll just turn off all of lockdown mode, like they do now, to see a good friend's photo album. Great.
... I feel like we're talking past each other, and frankly with your tone of voice you're clearly not going to listen to anything anyone says on this, so there's not really any point in having this discussion at all.
Baseline demand affects the numbers much more than the unpredictable spikes do. You can come up with edge cases if you like, but the reality is that it all averages out pretty well with large volume.
It's very rational to overshoot in that situation. If you build your lifestyle and then FIRE, you are derisking your budget while you still have income.
But wanting to change your lifestyle when you retire is incredibly risky, especially if you're young without life experience.
Any misstep costs you a fraction of lifetime earnings, and there's no way to recover it.
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