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		Robotbeat on July 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose comput... Dumbing down or intentionally making it hard. Apple is intentionally hostile to sharing files and makes it very hard. Improved slightly in recent IOS versions, but still super hard. You can’t just email yourself mp3s and Play them like normal music on your phone, you have to use a third party app or a PC or something to transfer them to iTunes.

Arrath on July 25, 2022 [–]

Which is endlessly infuriating to me. Whether its dumbing down or making it hard, the decrease in usability is a consistent hinderance.

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