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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by ehaliewicz2 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @01:20PM (#19391329)
> Do you feel that console makers shouldn’t be allowed to dictate what runs on their devices? Yes physical discs still have to be approved by the console maker. It’s been that way for 30 years.

Yes of course. Either allow the user full control of the hardware they apparently own, or call it what it really is, renting.

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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by scarface74 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:13PM (#19391837)
So is that also the case for my exercise equipment, my TV, my car, my car radio, my cable box, my printer, etc?
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Re:Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair by ehaliewicz2 on Friday March 15, 2019 @01:32AM (#19396854)
I'd say that the person in favor of restricting someone's use of their own hardware needs to come up with the argument in support of that, not the other way around.

You could have an argument in the case of a car, for safety. Cable box perhaps, but I'd say that should probably be considered a case of renting hardware for it to really make sense.

Car radio or printer, etc? Nothing comes to mind.

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