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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by chrischen on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:11PM (#26174186)
There is a device that lets you install your own apps (more or less), and it is an Android device. No-one is forcing you to buy an Apple device nor does Apple even have a monopoly in marketshare of mobile devices.

Some of the security and excellent user experience in fact comes from the enforcing and prevention of arbitrary third party apps. You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you don't want that experience go get an Android (many do, and are happy with it, but forcing Apple to become Android is nonsensical).

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by ThatPlayer on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:29PM (#26175277)
Similarly no one is forcing you to use third party apps. Apple can continue to enforce their App Store. And you can ignore the third party stores.
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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by chrischen on Friday February 19, 2021 @09:21PM (#26200875)
No one is forcing you to not jailbreak your iPhone, though Apple has no obligation to make it easy to do so with ongoing updates to iOS.
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