Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by zepto on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:58PM
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Allowing Bootcamp for iOS would solve this.
I am strongly in favor of that. The whole App Store thing is just about some middlemen wanting a cut and has nothing to do with software freedom.
On the other hand bootcamp for iOS - so you could install android, or better yet, a genuinely free OS, would solve the software freedom problem and allow old iOS devices to be repurposed after Apple stops supporting them.
Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by suifbwish on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:27PM
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There is nothing stopping you from rooting your iPhone and installing android on it. Problem solved. Now you can add all the spammerware you like.
Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by saagarjha on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:28PM
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Nothing except a hardware root of trust sealed by keys owned by Apple?
Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by suifbwish on Thursday February 18, 2021 @01:57PM
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I suppose you want the raw source for all the proprietary software you buy as well?
Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by saagarjha on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:54AM
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That would certainly be nice.
Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by adambyrtek on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:57PM
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Classic false dichotomy. Do you really think that any software not blessed by Apple must be necessarily malware?
So say you. I say that consumers have the right to run whatever software they want on the hardware that they have purchased.
Apple can create whatever software platform they want, but it seems pretty bad that they don't allow you to use whatever software platform you want on the hardware that you paid them for.