I just love the decisions that Apple makes for you on the iPhone X/iOS 11. Take this Bluetooth story here. The author turns ‘off’ Bluetooth on his phone, but he’s really just putting it into sleep mode.
See, Apple thinks that with their Air Pods, pencil, and other Bluetooth devices that you really don’t want to turn off Bluetooth completely. So it’s always ready for you to connect a device to. How nice of them.
I’m going to stick with my Android phone, where off means off, and I get to make the decisions about what my phone does.
Apple sucks, with their ‘we know better than you do’ attitude about how the phone works, and how you use it.
I'm a guy who's grown up watching the technology explosion and expansion his whole life. I was there when the home gaming console was invented, I had Intellivision & Colecovision, and an Atari 2600. I was there when personal computers became a thing with my Commodore 64, and we used audio cassettes as hard drives and dot matrix printers ruled.
I was there for the birth of cable television, and televisions going from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratios. I saw cameras and photography go from analog to digital, just like I watched music, movies, and everything else go digital. I lived in a world without Google and Amazon. I've watched mobile phones go from brief-case sized and mounted into cars. I've seen monochromatic screens change to color, and from non capacitive to full on touch screens. I've watched the rise of social media as well.
I've seen at lot of stuff over my lifetime, so I have some insight into where tech has been that helps me better understand where tech is going. Check it out.
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