Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved

Re:Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual ga... by sneak on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:46AM (#25023379)

The people's freedom is not restricted by Apple deciding to include or exclude certain features from their phones.

If people don't like the phones, they don't have to engage with the ecosystem at all. Many diehard anti-Apple (or anti-smartphone-in-general) people do just this today.

You also have this freedom if you don't like Apple products.

I, for example, have just purchased my last iPhone.

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Re:Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual ga... by manigandham on Sunday November 08, 2020 @01:04AM (#25023471)

It's not certain features. It's an app store that determines what software you can run on the hardware you already purchased, even retroactively disabling it. This is on top of their continued intensive efforts to thwart repairs of the hardware itself outside of Apple.

Plenty of corporations and corporate actions are regulated even when the consumer has choice. Because choice alone is not the issue, and that's usually with options that have far more than 2 ecosystems.

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Re:Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual ga... by novok on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:37PM (#25029758)

Because it has become a democrat vs republican kind of choice in all practicality.

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