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Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by lern_too_spel on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:26AM (#24153998)
> Neither those platforms, nor the developers, seem to give a rat's ass about that freedom though.

All Pixel and Android One phones allow you to unlock the bootloader. Developers do care about that.

Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by mehrdada on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:29AM (#24154024)
Yes, and that's great. Ideally you would want to be able to enroll your own security keys like Secure Boot, but I take all I can get. Android is not equivalent to Pixel though. Not even all Pixels do it by the way (notable exception was the ones sold by Verizon). So do macOS T2, and chromeOS developer mode (potentially with physical hardware screws to deter unintended misleading of a layperson).

However, all of that is pretty much orthogonal to what Epic wants, which is my point. Epic does not care about user freedom in that sense, just haggling to get a cut from 30/15% to ~5-10% and they'll be on their way. It's just spun as a user freedom thing (which is actually a valid request, but accomplished with very different means).

Re:Apple Music on Android asks user's card details to avoid ... by lern_too_spel on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:44AM (#24154128)
> Android is not equivalent to Pixel though.

Linux is not equivalent to a specific device either. That distinction is meaningless to developers, who will just get the device that lets them do what they need to do.