Any rational person would start with either the most appropriate platform for the particular project type
Unless the gatekeeper for a particular platform requires the person to have already completed and shipped completely unrelated projects for an unrelated platform. This isn't the case for iOS and Mac App Store, but I can clarify what I mean by this if you want.
Yes, you'll have to clarify.
Hell, even a completely amateur hobbyist would generally have no qualms about forking out > $1,000/year in pursuit of their joy.
So where should a student find the money to feed such a habit, especially in countries whose currency doesn't buy a lot of $ ?
The same place the student should find the money for *ANY* hobby they wish to pursue.
Please quit presenting contrived scenarios as the norm. It just makes you look foolish.
DBAN is the only thing I would recommend. Simply re-imaging the machine is not enough.
Is not enough to what? To ensure that the data is impossible to recover? Sure. To meet some silly nerd-paranoia? Ok. But it's definitely enough to meet the OP's goal of keeping any personal data he is leaving behind from being something he should worry about.
Same reason why they introduced walled garden on iOS and now elements of it on OS X as well - to prevent the spread of malware (and coincidentally to ensure that most app purchases go through their channels where they take a cut).
Like I said, there's no sense in it. You're just making shit up because it sounds "evil", not because there's any logic to it.
Unfortunately the retina MBPs aren't straight upgrades from the non-retina ones. If you get one with a retina display you lose a few things. Ports/peripherals:
Ethernet port
CD/DVD drive
Firewire port
Audio in
What are you talking about? You lose *none* of those. The first three are no longer internal nor included by default, which is hardly a "loss". Ethernet has been subsumed by WiFi, Firewire by Thunderbolt and USB 3.0, and both are still available as legacy connectors via Thunderbolt adaptors.
The optical drive is an anachronism, but if you need one, you can buy an external unit, and if you need one often enough that an external unit is too cumbersome, the traditional MacBook Pros are still available (not that the set of people for whom this is an actual problem is all that large to begin with).
And audio in is right there on the device, *and* available via USB or Thunderbolt if you want additional or different inputs.
I believe the retina macs also don't let you add more RAM or upgrade/replace your HDD/SSD
The RAM is soldered on, but the SSDs are upgradable. Though that is an actual trade-off in order to gain the smaller size. If you need upgradability, the traditional MacBook Pros are still available, but if you want the improved Retina models, just be sure to get a sufficiently powerful machine to meet your needs from the get go, problem solved. And if you outgrow it, sell it and replace it. This isn't rocket science.
Sure, these few things are sub-optimal, but they are generally minor and far outweighed by the gains. But like I've said, if they are big issues for you, a traditional MacBook Pro is still prominently displayed at Apple's stores (both online and retail). Your post sounds a lot more like Gizmodo-style "making up shit to complain about just to complain" than about highlighting things that are actual problems.
Stating a vague generality does nothing to support your claim about a specific product being "dumbed down". Please elaborate, unless you are simply out to troll (which honestly seems more likely).
Thanks for the correction. But this prospect of having to pay $550 per year to be on all the platforms is enough to drive someone to stick to Windows, GNU/Linux, and Android for his first several projects.
And good riddance... to the two imaginary people for whom this is true.
No one starts out with such an ambitious project that it's to be put on "all the platforms" before even a single cent has been made, but at the same time is so timid that they worry about a $550 investment that they will decide to just stick with Window, Linux (ha!), and Android. It's totally absurd.
Any rational person would start with either the most appropriate platform for the particular project type and use the income from that to branch out to other platforms as makes sense (and very few projects make sense for porting to all the platforms you've listed), or if no particular platform stands out, default to the more lucrative iOS or Windows platforms first. Starting out with Android or Linux is laughable.
Hell, even a completely amateur hobbyist would generally have no qualms about forking out > $1,000/year in pursuit of their joy.
I'm sorry, but the set of people who fit your bullshit contrivances is laughably small, yet you act like these are widely applicable generalities and default positions.
Why do you keep making up bullshit scenarios? Every time something Apple comes up, you immediately leave the context of what is being discussed (a shareware developer who would benefit from getting a SINGLE developer key for a product which he presumably makes money from, but even if he doesn't find it worthwhile to get a key, his product will still work just fine), and contrive a nonsensical example of a student who somehow has to buy 5+ licenses?
You can develop for OS X just fine without a developer key, completely free. If you want a key, $100/year is not a big deal, especially if you are actually making money from the project. And ultimately, if you are a student (from your example), having to buy student supplies (books, classes, software, etc.) is just part of being a student. Just as it is for hobbyists or professionals.
It's like you don't even understand how life works or something.
Apple works hard to make their products appealing to their customers. This would make it appealing to no one, which is the problem with all these lame "Apple will do evil things" assertions, there's never a reason given other than "well, evil!".
You can get a developer key if enough people use it to warrant that. If not, then it's no big loss to the Mac community as a whole. Usually, products with such a small user base have a sufficiently savvy user base that asking them to right-click on it once to authorize it is not out of the ordinary.
That said, best of luck on both your shareware app project, and improving your sense of cynicism.
This isn't a "Top 10 Pictures with Captions" ad-bait vapid article. It's a very in-depth and insightful review of a non-trivial piece of technology. While I often agree with your sentiment, I don't mind in the slightest taking on a small amount of inconvenience in order to help Siracusa make a few cents off my reading of his work.
You mean traversing the registry, or hunting down a file in/etc/ and sussing out the formatting and option for that particular program's settings?
The defaults system, while more complex than the standard Preferences window, is really quite nice. Both Windows and Linux would benefit greatly by having something ported to them that provided a defaults-like proxy between the registry/etc and the user (almost, but not quite, like gnome-config, which is too similar to the Windows registry).
it appeared that their cheapest rate is $18 or over 50% of the cost of the Pi.
Really, *that's* your complaint? That the Raspberry Pi is so inexpensive that a sub-$20 international shipping rate is too high relative to the price of the device for your liking?
Using a bluetooth keyboard and a stand with an iPad to approximate a netbook (although it's one you cannot use while carrying it, and there's the constant annoyance of having to keep reaching up to the touchscreen) is indeed a kludge. (Assuming you're using kludge as the variant spelling of 'kluge'. The other version of kludge is purely software.)
There's no difference between the words kludge and kluge. And you added a qualifier that isn't pertinent, "to approximate a netbook". No one is doing that with an iPad. However, the ASUS Transformer *is* doing that, and is indeed a kludge, as I pointed out.
Adding two things to a device to make it a crappier version of something else is in fact the definition of a kluge: 1./n./ A Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson) device, whether in hardware or software.
No one is making an iPad into a crappier version of a netbook. They are just adding a keyboard to use instead of the on-screen virtual keyboard. The Transformer, on the other hand, adds a trackpad and significantly alters the way you interact with the Android OS, treating it like a traditional desktop OS, which is a kludge.
In no way whatsoever is using a bluetooth keyboard on an iPad a kludge. And just so we're clear, I'm not saying that the kludgy aspect of the Transformer is inherently bad. It's most certainly not to my liking, but some people want exactly that, they want a kludge. It's fantastic that the Transformer exists for those very people.
But please, don't twist perfectly good words around just to fit your fanboy bullshit (or support others doing so, whichever of the two you are specifically doing).
So pairing a Bluetooth keyboard and a using a stand makes it a "kludge"?
Uh, yes. Is this supposed to be a trick question?
Only on Slashdot are the so-called geeks so fanboyed up against iOS that they have to deliberately misuse one of the most ancient of geek words in order to justify their irrational hatred of all things Apple.
The bluetooth keyboard support on the iPad is, by definition, not a kludge. It was part of the design from day one, and requires no clever (or even not-so-clever) hacks, tricks, unsupported or unintended interactions... absolutely nothing about it is a kludge. It's part of the original design from day one.
Modders reading this, If you'd rather support your team ("rah-rah, gooooo ANDROID!!!!"), mod me down. If you have any integrity at all, don't let your emotions get in the way of the truth. Whether iOS is better than Android or, for you, has absolutely nothing to do with whether you can bend a word to mean the exact opposite of what it actually means. Your moderation here will judge you far more than it will judge me, just as it already has for user 0123456 and those that have moderated his post.
You can use any Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad and battery docks are a dime a dozen....
Because the keyboard dock turns it into an Android netbook, rather than a kludgy collection of knocked-together addons where you have to support the display with your knees?
No, you don't have to "support the display with your knees", nor is a bluetooth keyboard "kludgy" on iOS.
But you want to know what is kludgy? An Android netbook. First an foremost, because Android is primarily a phone OS, that has been stretched into a passable tablet OS, and is by no means a good netbook OS (Linux, Windows, or OS X would be superior for a proper netbook format). But even before getting into that discussion, just being Android itself tends to imply a certain level of kludginess. The only difference is that it's a type of kludginess that Android and general Linux/FOSS types find enjoyable, and Mac/iOS people find unnecessarily obstructive.
Neither is right or wrong, just different. But your main point is wrong on almost all levels. iOS works just fine with a bluetooth keyboard (and the iPad has supported it since day one as an intentional design choice), you can use it without involving your knees (or legs) at all, and if you do wish to use it in your lap, you many of the options include hinges, slots, or general support configurations, which will keep the iPad firmly oriented with respect to the keyboard, requiring no independent support whatsoever.
Great! So on an iPad all HD video has to be scaled up to a different resolution resulting in a loss of perceivable sharpness, whereas on this Asus it can be displayed at a perfect 1:1 pixel correspondence.
Because it's a retina display, you can't lose perceivable sharpness (with only some possible, mostly theoretical, edge cases, depending on how close the display is to the "retina"/non-retina PPI border).
Also, just for accuracy's sake, the iPad can indeed display HD 1080p video at a perfect 1:1 pixel correspondence.
I know which I'd prefer.
The one you prefer has absolutely nothing to do with whether the display is perfect 1080p HD or not, you are just retconning an excuse to further justify it (which is not necessary), by pretending like it's due to some objective evaluation (which it's not, which is why justification is unnecessary. You have perfectly valid subjective reasons to prefer an Android tablet over an iOS one, not that I agree with these reasons in the slightest, it's just that whether we agree or not isn't pertinent to whether your opinion is right for you, and mine for me).
On iOS 6, Apple is adding much greater granularity with regards to data access permissions.
Woo hoo! At some point in the future, Apple devices will finally have a feature that Android has had since inception! And it will be even better! What a huge win for Apple!
And it's long overdue. But you're right, it's coming, it's better, and it's a huge win for Apple (and more importantly, Apple's customers).
Until then, you're at the mercy of Apple's gatekeepers to make sure that nothing bad gets in, because as a user, you have absolutely no clue what the software you download is doing.
Apple's been a great gatekeeper so far. I see no reason to think anything's changed in that regard. Besides, there are presently ways (without jailbreaking) to find out what an app is doing (which Apple does currently check for during testing as well), so your implication that apps are doing nefarious things is incorrect.
That's a non sequitur straw man. Choice just isn't necessarily good, and choice for choice's sake doesn't imply anything about overall choices.
Apple limits a small handful of things. These things have a huge impact in overall security and quality, while also only causing a very small amount of inconvenience from the omitted options. On the other hand, because of iOS's greater popularity among consumers and developers alike, there are actually more choices available to the iOS user than there are to the Android user, even though Google places fewer limits on the choices at the outset.
It's a trade-off. Either you are allowed to install anything on your device, and are willing to wear the consequences, or you're not, and can choose from an accepted white-list of products that a trusted third party has validated clean. I can understand why some consumers choose to be limited (especially business consumers),
iOS is hardly "limited". In fact, it provides significantly more options for the customer than Android does, in spite of these limits. The actual limits amount to a very small amount of software being outright prevented from being available. But when you write the word without qualification, small limits and draconian limits both can be described by the exact same word, "limited", making them sound equivalent, which they aren't.
And this is the best part of your post:
but saying that one choice is better than another is just stupid.
Which is immediately followed by:
And actually, when it comes to technical measures, Android's security is better,
HA!
Anyway, when it comes to actual measures, iOS's security is better, because it actually works in practice. What's preferable, security that is theoretically better, or security that is actually better in practice? I'll take actual security over theoretical security any day. That's also why Macs are more secure than Windows, even though we've been hearing for years now how Microsoft's security is "so much better" than Apple's. What good does that do for the user if all the pwnage is happening on the supposedly "secure" system, and next to none on the supposedly lacking one?
Same goes with iOS vs Android.
and more finely grained than iOS. iOS security model revolves around the idea that bad apps won't be running, because Apple will have stopped them being installed in the first place.
On iOS 6, Apple is adding much greater granularity with regards to data access permissions. And unlike what you see on Android apps, you won't end up with a WTF? list of permissions requests, like games wanting full access to your SMS system.
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It has all those things, what are you talking about?
Any rational person would start with either the most appropriate platform for the particular project type
Unless the gatekeeper for a particular platform requires the person to have already completed and shipped completely unrelated projects for an unrelated platform. This isn't the case for iOS and Mac App Store, but I can clarify what I mean by this if you want.
Yes, you'll have to clarify.
Hell, even a completely amateur hobbyist would generally have no qualms about forking out > $1,000/year in pursuit of their joy.
So where should a student find the money to feed such a habit, especially in countries whose currency doesn't buy a lot of $ ?
The same place the student should find the money for *ANY* hobby they wish to pursue.
Please quit presenting contrived scenarios as the norm. It just makes you look foolish.
DBAN is the only thing I would recommend. Simply re-imaging the machine is not enough.
Is not enough to what? To ensure that the data is impossible to recover? Sure. To meet some silly nerd-paranoia? Ok. But it's definitely enough to meet the OP's goal of keeping any personal data he is leaving behind from being something he should worry about.
Why would they do that? There's no sense in it.
Same reason why they introduced walled garden on iOS and now elements of it on OS X as well - to prevent the spread of malware (and coincidentally to ensure that most app purchases go through their channels where they take a cut).
Like I said, there's no sense in it. You're just making shit up because it sounds "evil", not because there's any logic to it.
Unfortunately the retina MBPs aren't straight upgrades from the non-retina ones. If you get one with a retina display you lose a few things.
Ports/peripherals:
Ethernet port
CD/DVD drive
Firewire port
Audio in
What are you talking about? You lose *none* of those. The first three are no longer internal nor included by default, which is hardly a "loss". Ethernet has been subsumed by WiFi, Firewire by Thunderbolt and USB 3.0, and both are still available as legacy connectors via Thunderbolt adaptors.
The optical drive is an anachronism, but if you need one, you can buy an external unit, and if you need one often enough that an external unit is too cumbersome, the traditional MacBook Pros are still available (not that the set of people for whom this is an actual problem is all that large to begin with).
And audio in is right there on the device, *and* available via USB or Thunderbolt if you want additional or different inputs.
I believe the retina macs also don't let you add more RAM or upgrade/replace your HDD/SSD
The RAM is soldered on, but the SSDs are upgradable. Though that is an actual trade-off in order to gain the smaller size. If you need upgradability, the traditional MacBook Pros are still available, but if you want the improved Retina models, just be sure to get a sufficiently powerful machine to meet your needs from the get go, problem solved. And if you outgrow it, sell it and replace it. This isn't rocket science.
Sure, these few things are sub-optimal, but they are generally minor and far outweighed by the gains. But like I've said, if they are big issues for you, a traditional MacBook Pro is still prominently displayed at Apple's stores (both online and retail). Your post sounds a lot more like Gizmodo-style "making up shit to complain about just to complain" than about highlighting things that are actual problems.
Stating a vague generality does nothing to support your claim about a specific product being "dumbed down". Please elaborate, unless you are simply out to troll (which honestly seems more likely).
Thanks for the correction. But this prospect of having to pay $550 per year to be on all the platforms is enough to drive someone to stick to Windows, GNU/Linux, and Android for his first several projects.
And good riddance... to the two imaginary people for whom this is true.
No one starts out with such an ambitious project that it's to be put on "all the platforms" before even a single cent has been made, but at the same time is so timid that they worry about a $550 investment that they will decide to just stick with Window, Linux (ha!), and Android. It's totally absurd.
Any rational person would start with either the most appropriate platform for the particular project type and use the income from that to branch out to other platforms as makes sense (and very few projects make sense for porting to all the platforms you've listed), or if no particular platform stands out, default to the more lucrative iOS or Windows platforms first. Starting out with Android or Linux is laughable.
Hell, even a completely amateur hobbyist would generally have no qualms about forking out > $1,000/year in pursuit of their joy.
I'm sorry, but the set of people who fit your bullshit contrivances is laughably small, yet you act like these are widely applicable generalities and default positions.
Why do you keep making up bullshit scenarios? Every time something Apple comes up, you immediately leave the context of what is being discussed (a shareware developer who would benefit from getting a SINGLE developer key for a product which he presumably makes money from, but even if he doesn't find it worthwhile to get a key, his product will still work just fine), and contrive a nonsensical example of a student who somehow has to buy 5+ licenses?
You can develop for OS X just fine without a developer key, completely free. If you want a key, $100/year is not a big deal, especially if you are actually making money from the project. And ultimately, if you are a student (from your example), having to buy student supplies (books, classes, software, etc.) is just part of being a student. Just as it is for hobbyists or professionals.
It's like you don't even understand how life works or something.
Why would they do that? There's no sense in it.
Apple works hard to make their products appealing to their customers. This would make it appealing to no one, which is the problem with all these lame "Apple will do evil things" assertions, there's never a reason given other than "well, evil!".
You can get a developer key if enough people use it to warrant that. If not, then it's no big loss to the Mac community as a whole. Usually, products with such a small user base have a sufficiently savvy user base that asking them to right-click on it once to authorize it is not out of the ordinary.
That said, best of luck on both your shareware app project, and improving your sense of cynicism.
This isn't a "Top 10 Pictures with Captions" ad-bait vapid article. It's a very in-depth and insightful review of a non-trivial piece of technology. While I often agree with your sentiment, I don't mind in the slightest taking on a small amount of inconvenience in order to help Siracusa make a few cents off my reading of his work.
You mean traversing the registry, or hunting down a file in /etc/ and sussing out the formatting and option for that particular program's settings?
The defaults system, while more complex than the standard Preferences window, is really quite nice. Both Windows and Linux would benefit greatly by having something ported to them that provided a defaults-like proxy between the registry/etc and the user (almost, but not quite, like gnome-config, which is too similar to the Windows registry).
There are plenty of examples which do not so closely resemble the iPad that not even Samsung's own lawyers could tell the difference in court.
it appeared that their cheapest rate is $18 or over 50% of the cost of the Pi.
Really, *that's* your complaint? That the Raspberry Pi is so inexpensive that a sub-$20 international shipping rate is too high relative to the price of the device for your liking?
Two seconds? Sheesh, I can usually at least make it home before my new computer is obsolete.
Sorry, I don't feed trolls.
Using a bluetooth keyboard and a stand with an iPad to approximate a netbook (although it's one you cannot use while carrying it, and there's the constant annoyance of having to keep reaching up to the touchscreen) is indeed a kludge. (Assuming you're using kludge as the variant spelling of 'kluge'. The other version of kludge is purely software.)
There's no difference between the words kludge and kluge. And you added a qualifier that isn't pertinent, "to approximate a netbook". No one is doing that with an iPad. However, the ASUS Transformer *is* doing that, and is indeed a kludge, as I pointed out.
Adding two things to a device to make it a crappier version of something else is in fact the definition of a kluge: 1. /n./ A Rube Goldberg (or Heath Robinson) device, whether in hardware or software.
No one is making an iPad into a crappier version of a netbook. They are just adding a keyboard to use instead of the on-screen virtual keyboard. The Transformer, on the other hand, adds a trackpad and significantly alters the way you interact with the Android OS, treating it like a traditional desktop OS, which is a kludge.
In no way whatsoever is using a bluetooth keyboard on an iPad a kludge. And just so we're clear, I'm not saying that the kludgy aspect of the Transformer is inherently bad. It's most certainly not to my liking, but some people want exactly that, they want a kludge. It's fantastic that the Transformer exists for those very people.
But please, don't twist perfectly good words around just to fit your fanboy bullshit (or support others doing so, whichever of the two you are specifically doing).
So pairing a Bluetooth keyboard and a using a stand makes it a "kludge"?
Uh, yes. Is this supposed to be a trick question?
Only on Slashdot are the so-called geeks so fanboyed up against iOS that they have to deliberately misuse one of the most ancient of geek words in order to justify their irrational hatred of all things Apple.
The bluetooth keyboard support on the iPad is, by definition, not a kludge. It was part of the design from day one, and requires no clever (or even not-so-clever) hacks, tricks, unsupported or unintended interactions... absolutely nothing about it is a kludge. It's part of the original design from day one.
Modders reading this, If you'd rather support your team ("rah-rah, gooooo ANDROID!!!!"), mod me down. If you have any integrity at all, don't let your emotions get in the way of the truth. Whether iOS is better than Android or, for you, has absolutely nothing to do with whether you can bend a word to mean the exact opposite of what it actually means. Your moderation here will judge you far more than it will judge me, just as it already has for user 0123456 and those that have moderated his post.
You can use any Bluetooth keyboard with the iPad and battery docks are a dime a dozen....
Because the keyboard dock turns it into an Android netbook, rather than a kludgy collection of knocked-together addons where you have to support the display with your knees?
No, you don't have to "support the display with your knees", nor is a bluetooth keyboard "kludgy" on iOS.
But you want to know what is kludgy? An Android netbook. First an foremost, because Android is primarily a phone OS, that has been stretched into a passable tablet OS, and is by no means a good netbook OS (Linux, Windows, or OS X would be superior for a proper netbook format). But even before getting into that discussion, just being Android itself tends to imply a certain level of kludginess. The only difference is that it's a type of kludginess that Android and general Linux/FOSS types find enjoyable, and Mac/iOS people find unnecessarily obstructive.
Neither is right or wrong, just different. But your main point is wrong on almost all levels. iOS works just fine with a bluetooth keyboard (and the iPad has supported it since day one as an intentional design choice), you can use it without involving your knees (or legs) at all, and if you do wish to use it in your lap, you many of the options include hinges, slots, or general support configurations, which will keep the iPad firmly oriented with respect to the keyboard, requiring no independent support whatsoever.
Great! So on an iPad all HD video has to be scaled up to a different resolution resulting in a loss of perceivable sharpness, whereas on this Asus it can be displayed at a perfect 1:1 pixel correspondence.
Because it's a retina display, you can't lose perceivable sharpness (with only some possible, mostly theoretical, edge cases, depending on how close the display is to the "retina"/non-retina PPI border).
Also, just for accuracy's sake, the iPad can indeed display HD 1080p video at a perfect 1:1 pixel correspondence.
I know which I'd prefer.
The one you prefer has absolutely nothing to do with whether the display is perfect 1080p HD or not, you are just retconning an excuse to further justify it (which is not necessary), by pretending like it's due to some objective evaluation (which it's not, which is why justification is unnecessary. You have perfectly valid subjective reasons to prefer an Android tablet over an iOS one, not that I agree with these reasons in the slightest, it's just that whether we agree or not isn't pertinent to whether your opinion is right for you, and mine for me).
On iOS 6, Apple is adding much greater granularity with regards to data access permissions.
Woo hoo! At some point in the future, Apple devices will finally have a feature that Android has had since inception! And it will be even better! What a huge win for Apple!
And it's long overdue. But you're right, it's coming, it's better, and it's a huge win for Apple (and more importantly, Apple's customers).
Until then, you're at the mercy of Apple's gatekeepers to make sure that nothing bad gets in, because as a user, you have absolutely no clue what the software you download is doing.
Apple's been a great gatekeeper so far. I see no reason to think anything's changed in that regard. Besides, there are presently ways (without jailbreaking) to find out what an app is doing (which Apple does currently check for during testing as well), so your implication that apps are doing nefarious things is incorrect.
that anticompetive (notice, no quotes) iOS device doesn't let you purchase books from within the kindle or nook apps. android? no problem.
Still more choices than the anti-choice (notice, no quotes) Nook or Kindle.
Choice is bad.
That's a non sequitur straw man. Choice just isn't necessarily good, and choice for choice's sake doesn't imply anything about overall choices.
Apple limits a small handful of things. These things have a huge impact in overall security and quality, while also only causing a very small amount of inconvenience from the omitted options. On the other hand, because of iOS's greater popularity among consumers and developers alike, there are actually more choices available to the iOS user than there are to the Android user, even though Google places fewer limits on the choices at the outset.
Or, in other words, your trolling is lame.
It's a trade-off. Either you are allowed to install anything on your device, and are willing to wear the consequences, or you're not, and can choose from an accepted white-list of products that a trusted third party has validated clean. I can understand why some consumers choose to be limited (especially business consumers),
iOS is hardly "limited". In fact, it provides significantly more options for the customer than Android does, in spite of these limits. The actual limits amount to a very small amount of software being outright prevented from being available. But when you write the word without qualification, small limits and draconian limits both can be described by the exact same word, "limited", making them sound equivalent, which they aren't.
And this is the best part of your post:
but saying that one choice is better than another is just stupid.
Which is immediately followed by:
And actually, when it comes to technical measures, Android's security is better,
HA!
Anyway, when it comes to actual measures, iOS's security is better, because it actually works in practice. What's preferable, security that is theoretically better, or security that is actually better in practice? I'll take actual security over theoretical security any day. That's also why Macs are more secure than Windows, even though we've been hearing for years now how Microsoft's security is "so much better" than Apple's. What good does that do for the user if all the pwnage is happening on the supposedly "secure" system, and next to none on the supposedly lacking one?
Same goes with iOS vs Android.
and more finely grained than iOS. iOS security model revolves around the idea that bad apps won't be running, because Apple will have stopped them being installed in the first place.
On iOS 6, Apple is adding much greater granularity with regards to data access permissions. And unlike what you see on Android apps, you won't end up with a WTF? list of permissions requests, like games wanting full access to your SMS system.
Funny how the supposedly "anticompetitive" Apple product is the one where you can run both, *and* iBooks, yet somehow Android is "more open"...