they shoot themselves in the foot by increasing prices. After owning multiple OP phones (last one was an 8T ) I got a realme GT 7 pro, way cheaper than OP and it's of same hardware quality and software
Whether you can access these devices or not depends on your firewall rules.
The usual (very simplifed) setup is as follows
VLANs:
- VLAN_Trusted
- VLAN_Untrusted
- VLAN_IoT
Firewall rules:
VLAN_Trusted: Can access everything, WAN (internet) as well as devices on VLAN_Untrusted and VLAN_IoT. Usually, your PC or smartphone is here
VLAN_IoT: can only access WAN (internet), but none of the other VLANs, usually connected devices, like smart appliances that you control via their dedicated apps, like Philips HUE lamps, etc
VLAN_Untrusted: Can not access anything. Usually devices that you don't want to allow to access anything, lika a TV, or a printer to prevent automatic firmware updates.
Some people also hav a VLAN_Guests, which is similar to IoT, where devices can only access the internet.
I hope this helps
Fuck... Now that RAM prices are skyrocketing, we gonna see hoarders buy hundreds of TB of storage, leading to price hikes
I reworked my entire home network. Going from an Asus router to an opnsense firewall, just to put the HP printer and the LG TV on a VLAN with absolutely no internet access.
These two poor guys ping each other every day, in the hopes one of them gets a connection.
Compared to Apple fees, that fee is actually managable. It's a one-time thing.
However, it's still a small hurdle for poor/younger indie-devs to het their MVP out and tested.
On a side note, if they want to restrict users from sideloading apps, fine! But we as users also want to decide what we do not want installed on our devices, so a debloated device with no BS apps and games installed. How about we make this happen as well?
You can't track payments automatically. You have to click the toggle the status of an invoice by hand.
Zugferd is on my todo list, the others I haven't geard of yet, but will dig into