On 6/25/2023 12:52 PM, Peter wrote:

<snip>

> You really don't know that you can install apps from outside Google Play.
>
> Not only are you an Apple nutjob - but that you don't know that you can
> install apps from outside the Google Play Store means you're an idiot.

In China, the Google Play store is not even available. That's about 745
million Android users, based on current market share numbers, that get
their applications from other app stores.

--
“If you are not an expert on a subject, then your opinions about it
really do matter less than the opinions of experts. It's not
indoctrination nor elitism. It's just that you don't know as much as
they do about the subject.”—Tin Foil Awards

In article <u7amrr$l45o$1@dont-email.me>, sms
<scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

>
> It's surprising that iOS doesn't give the app developer the option of
> preventing screen shots.

it's surprising how little you know about ios. developers can block
screenshots as well as non-developers blocking it systemwide.

> There are legitimate reasons to implement this
> feature.

not many, and they're edge cases.

> But I'm not complaining! I often take screenshots of cards so I
> can store them in the Apple Wallet or create a one-click shortcut to
> bring up an image of the card on the phone rather than opening an app
> and authenticating and then bringing up an image of the card.

why do you do things in the most convoluted way?

In article <u7an6j$l45o$2@dont-email.me>, sms
<scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

>
> In China, the Google Play store is not even available. That's about 745
> million Android users, based on current market share numbers, that get
> their applications from other app stores.

745 million android users (your numbers) who are prevented from using a
significant number of apps, ones which are only available in the play
store. that's not an advantage.

fortunately, apple doesn't have that limitation.

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> but at least you finally admit that google does not allow newpipe on
> the play store, thereby forcing people to go outside it.

FORCING PEOPLE? FORCING PEOPLE???????

Downloading an app installer on any operating system is a normal thing on
all operating systems (except on iOS). It's a simple click or two.

You exogenically indoctrinated Apple posters sure are strange nutters.

sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
>> You really don't know that you can install apps from outside Google Play.
>>
>> Not only are you an Apple nutjob - but that you don't know that you can
>> install apps from outside the Google Play Store means you're an idiot.
>
> In China, the Google Play store is not even available. That's about 745
> million Android users, based on current market share numbers, that get
> their applications from other app stores.

Unlike the (ignorant) Apple nutters, you seem to understand this stuff so
that you likely know that there probably isn't an app on the Google Play
Store worth having that doesn't have many other APK mirrors to get it from.

Can't those 745 million Chinese Android owners use those many APK mirrors?

In article <u7aq5l$le8n$1@dont-email.me>, Peter
<occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

> > but at least you finally admit that google does not allow newpipe on
> > the play store, thereby forcing people to go outside it.
>
> FORCING PEOPLE? FORCING PEOPLE???????

where's newpipe on the play store? oh right, it's *not* *there*.

> Downloading an app installer on any operating system is a normal thing on
> all operating systems (except on iOS). It's a simple click or two.

downloading apps on ios is a simple *tap* or two (there aren't any
clicks on touch-based devices).

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> 745 million android users (your numbers) who are prevented from using a
> significant number of apps, ones which are only available in the play
> store. that's not an advantage.
>
> fortunately, apple doesn't have that limitation.

You really believe that you can't get all the app APKs that are on the
Google Play Store without using the Google Play Store app to get them?

Every statement from you exogenic Apple nutcases reeks your ignorance.

In article <u7aqo3$lga0$1@dont-email.me>, Peter
<occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

>
> You really believe that you can't get all the app APKs that are on the
> Google Play Store without using the Google Play Store app to get them?

yep. not all apps are in alternative app stores.

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> but at least you finally admit that google does not allow newpipe on
>>> the play store, thereby forcing people to go outside it.
>>
>> FORCING PEOPLE? FORCING PEOPLE???????
>
> where's newpipe on the play store? oh right, it's *not* *there*.

You're a nutcase if you think installing an app is FORCING people
(especially when _every_ system _except iOS_ does it that way!).

There are plenty of cases where the app that is on the Google Play Store is
deprecated by its own developers over the same app from their own web site.

For example, NetGuard's own README says that the Google Play Store variant
is not as capable as the variant that you can get from them or on GitHub.

That you believe downloading a more capable app outside the app store is
FORCING PEOPLE! makes it clear that you Apple posters are ignorant nutjobs.

In article <u7ar10$p5vi$1@dont-email.me>, Peter
<occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

> For example, NetGuard's own README says that the Google Play Store variant
> is not as capable as the variant that you can get from them or on GitHub.
>

goalpost movement detected.

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> You really believe that you can't get all the app APKs that are on the
>> Google Play Store without using the Google Play Store app to get them?
>
> yep. not all apps are in alternative app stores.

Point to a single app APK on the Google Play store not in the APK mirrors.

That you Apple nutcases can't do that means you are just making up excuses
for why every operating system installs apps from anywhere people want.

Except iOS.

nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> For example, NetGuard's own README says that the Google Play Store variant
>> is not as capable as the variant that you can get from them or on GitHub.
>>
>
> goalpost movement detected.

What you ignorant Apple nutjobs do is complain and whine and moan and cry
that you can't install anything on iOS that every other system can do.

Then when it's shown that you nutjobs are ignorant of everything you speak
of, you then complain & moan and cry like a baby that you're proven wrong.

On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 17:41:27 -0700, sms wrote:

> Now,
> when you approach self-checkout an employee stops you and requires that
> you present your membership card and they match your picture to your
> face.

I never use the self checkout but my Costco card is a credit card (as yours
most likely also is as you also seem to love to get money back on CCards).

That VISA Ccard has only my first initial & last name (I did that so that
anyone in my family can easily use it - but they never checked me or them).

Also, there is no picture and there never has been a picture on that card.

On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 13:28:47 -0400, Paul wrote:
> It seems inevitable that we'll just keep on responding
> to these cross-posted troll threads.

You can't get rid of the Apple aficionados no matter how hard you try.
> That's the only thing that is obvious to me at the moment.

Removing those odd Apple aficionados from normal Windows, Linux or Android
threads prevents being tortured by their endless claims bearing no fruit.

On 6/26/2023 10:45 AM, Mickey D wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2023 17:41:27 -0700, sms wrote:
>
>> Now,
>> when you approach self-checkout an employee stops you and requires that
>> you present your membership card and they match your picture to your
>> face.
>
> I never use the self checkout but my Costco card is a credit card (as yours
> most likely also is as you also seem to love to get money back on CCards).
>
> That VISA Ccard has only my first initial & last name (I did that so that
> anyone in my family can easily use it - but they never checked me or them).
>
> Also, there is no picture and there never has been a picture on that card.

My Citibank Costco Visa has my picture on it. I know that during the
peak of Covid they were not taking photos for cards because they did not
want people taking of their masks.

Also, the QR code on the digital card is not constant but the bar code
on the Costco card is constant. The EAN-13 bar code on your Costco
membership card has another digit at the end of your membership number
that is not printed on your card so if you're creating an image of a
card, or adding it to a wallet with the app, be sure to generate the
complete bar code. You can upload an image of the bar code using the web
site <https://www.onlinebarcodereader.com/>. There may be a mobile app
that does the same thing but I could not find it. I used
<https://www.zoho.com/us/inventory/free-barcode-generator/> to generate
the EAN-13 bar code.

--
“If you are not an expert on a subject, then your opinions about it
really do matter less than the opinions of experts. It's not
indoctrination nor elitism. It's just that you don't know as much as
they do about the subject.”—Tin Foil Awards

Bob Campbell <nunya@none.none> wrote:
> And even when someone PROVES that "the impossible" CAN be easily done on
> iOS, the kiddie trolls reject the evidence and have a public breakdown.

That you're already giving up proves iOS can't do what all the others do.

If that iOS clusterfuck (which doesn't even work) is the best you can do,
then that proves beyond any doubt that it's only iOS that can't do things.

Of the thousands (upon thousands!) of very useful things that people easily
do on all platforms (except on iOS) you found only 1/2 of a workaround.

For that 1/2 you had to use a CLI clusterfuck dating back to the DOS days.
(That iOS clusterfuck only works because yt-dlp people compiled a binary.)

But even with that 1/2 iOS clusterfuck workaround, there's still no GUI.