> Within months of use, customer phones would either “explode” from excessive battery drain, “lightly smoke,” or just become inoperable from dead flash storage.
Seems more like bad software exposing lightly defective hardware. These are issues that could be prevented by the manufacturer on either hardware or software level in many different ways.
If you have to trust userspace applications to not trash your hardware, you (Apple) are doing something wrong.
They're not even hard problems. You can prevent any of these with a post-release over-the-air update.
There would be a cost to your benchmarking scores, obviously.
But what good is top-tier performance when you can observe your phone self-destructing at a greatly accelerated rate as opposed to the expected amount of wear.
I think the parent post was implying that their former employer pulled those shenanigans on Android, but was prevented from doing the same on iOS due to restrictions, which was a source of frustration for their business execs.
You don't expect an application running with root privileges on Linux to be sandboxed, quite the opposite in fact.
You can brick your hardware in a million ways with root privileges by doing fun stuff like overwriting firmware/efi settings etc.
It's not comparable at all to an application on your phone downloaded from an app store, which you expect to be highly sandboxed and which you certainly not expect to be able to do irreversible damage to your hardware.
>Seems more like bad software exposing lightly defective hardware. These are issues that could be prevented by the manufacturer on either hardware or software level in many different ways.
A lot of the things the OP describes are limited or prevented on iOS devices by hardware and software restrictions, and not just review policies.
Seems more like bad software exposing lightly defective hardware. These are issues that could be prevented by the manufacturer on either hardware or software level in many different ways.
If you have to trust userspace applications to not trash your hardware, you (Apple) are doing something wrong.
They're not even hard problems. You can prevent any of these with a post-release over-the-air update.
There would be a cost to your benchmarking scores, obviously.
But what good is top-tier performance when you can observe your phone self-destructing at a greatly accelerated rate as opposed to the expected amount of wear.