On: Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

[sneak]

Not any anticompetitive practice, just the ones that allow in competitors who have different security models for human/computer interaction.

Imagine if you could swap out Siri for Alexa. The privacy guarantees are nothing alike. People buy iPhones because they prohibit unsafe choices.

[Osiris → sneak]

Source? What data do you have that "prohits unsafe choices" is the only or #1 reason that people buy an iPhone over an Android?

[saagarjha → sneak]

I mean the security model for both is pretty similar, you have a provider which gets your audio and then decides what they want to do with it.