<story><title>Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship</title><url>https://hardware.substack.com/p/falling-out-of-love-with-apple-part3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john_minsk</author><text>I just paid for 12 months worth of Skype subscription which I have used for just 2 calls back in January.&lt;p&gt;I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.&lt;p&gt;Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it refusing to accept discount or a free subscription.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t trust many other companies. Especially if all my interactions with them are virtual and they are not specialized in information technology. At least big tech is quite rich to afford to think about users.&lt;p&gt;Each bank got their app and added some obvious features there: pay for utilities, for your phone etc. I want more progress here. I want to be able to see all my fees upfront in a clear format. I want to know my credit score. I want to be able to take this credit score to different organizations. etc. etc.&lt;p&gt;Big hope that fin tech will blow it up, but unfortunately start ups didn&amp;#x27;t deliver. There are some successful ones, but I think finance is too regulated for them to have a shot at a serious scale. Apple and Google have a shot at that and they will create a road for smaller companies.&lt;p&gt;The situation in Belarus is bad. And believe me I know. I was concerned as well about my device security. But to be honest at the end of the day it can&amp;#x27;t be Apple&amp;#x27;s problem. Belarussian government must be replaced by Belarussian people and Apple has nothing to do with that. And on top of that - what choice do I have. Android devices in Russia are preinstalled with Russian software while Apple&amp;#x27;s aren&amp;#x27;t. That&amp;#x27;s more important sign for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>webmobdev</author><text>&amp;gt; I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.&lt;p&gt;You do so only because you believe have no choice as you know that your democracy is so crippled that you don&amp;#x27;t expect them to protect your rights as a consumer any more!&lt;p&gt;Where as many Europeans and Asians, who also enjoy democratic rights, will tell you openly that we would prefer that our democratically elected government protect our consumer rights through regulations that bind all corporates to behave themselves.</text></comment>
<story><title>Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship</title><url>https://hardware.substack.com/p/falling-out-of-love-with-apple-part3</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>john_minsk</author><text>I just paid for 12 months worth of Skype subscription which I have used for just 2 calls back in January.&lt;p&gt;I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store.&lt;p&gt;Once I subscribed to New York times. The newspaper that was advertised to me for years in all Hollywood movies as a place where honesty and freedom are of highest priority. I had to spend an hour on a phone with their representatives to cancel it refusing to accept discount or a free subscription.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t trust many other companies. Especially if all my interactions with them are virtual and they are not specialized in information technology. At least big tech is quite rich to afford to think about users.&lt;p&gt;Each bank got their app and added some obvious features there: pay for utilities, for your phone etc. I want more progress here. I want to be able to see all my fees upfront in a clear format. I want to know my credit score. I want to be able to take this credit score to different organizations. etc. etc.&lt;p&gt;Big hope that fin tech will blow it up, but unfortunately start ups didn&amp;#x27;t deliver. There are some successful ones, but I think finance is too regulated for them to have a shot at a serious scale. Apple and Google have a shot at that and they will create a road for smaller companies.&lt;p&gt;The situation in Belarus is bad. And believe me I know. I was concerned as well about my device security. But to be honest at the end of the day it can&amp;#x27;t be Apple&amp;#x27;s problem. Belarussian government must be replaced by Belarussian people and Apple has nothing to do with that. And on top of that - what choice do I have. Android devices in Russia are preinstalled with Russian software while Apple&amp;#x27;s aren&amp;#x27;t. That&amp;#x27;s more important sign for me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hokusai</author><text>&amp;gt; I want ALL my subscriptions to go through Apple Pay and App store&lt;p&gt;What about defining a standard subscription protocol that allows any company to offer subscription management, and allow consumers to change their subscription manager if they are not happy?&lt;p&gt;Putting all your eggs in one nest because you currently like it is a very risky gamble.&lt;p&gt;Banking has worked with standards for decades that allow interoperability and competition.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But to be honest at the end of the day it can&amp;#x27;t be Apple&amp;#x27;s problem.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why the trust in one company should be very limited. As a non USA consumer, I will prefer some one else managing my data.</text></comment>