Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
by Bud on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:31AM
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13 years of the iPhone being the most popular consumer product in the history of the universe would seem to suggest that sideloading is not "a must"; indeed, some might say it suggests the opposite: that sideloading is in fact a huge plus and part of why the ecosystem is succeeding so well and users' security and stability of their devices is so superior to competing products.
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Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
by MereInterest on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:56AM
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Fine. Installing custom software is not an economic "must", but is a moral "must". If I have bought a device, then it is mine to run whatever software I want on it, and the manufacturer of the device has no moral claim over it.
Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
by criddell on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:34AM
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If you agree to not side-load software via some EULA, does that change the moral calculus for you?
Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:04AM
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To me it's just a monopoly abusing its position.
Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
by ajconway on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:34AM
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But Apple is not a monopoly.
Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:01AM
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Yeah right. Just today's search in DDG news for 'apple monopoly':
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apple+monopoly&atb=v194-1&iar=news...
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Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
by criddell on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:36AM
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That's like saying a Camry is better than a Ferrari because it has more cup holders.
Re:Dear Apple: Here’s How to Stop the Antitrust Investigations
by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:14PM
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Actually, Camry is better because it is a car that you can actually drive where I live, unlike Ferrari.
However, car metaphors aside, my work requires apps that maintain persistent connection with server. When I carry a supercomputer in my pocket that can totally outperform my PC from 1993 by a factor of 500x or more, I kinda expect it to be able perform basic computing tasks that it is perfectly capable of, hardware-wise. And the only reason I can't is because Apple forbids me, styling it as 'care' about my battery life.