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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by josephcsible on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:04PM (#27259045)
Respecting private property? Whose property is an iPhone? Apple's or the end user's? Whose (intellectual) property is the Epic Store? Apple's or Epic's? Apple wants to use the only thing that's theirs in the equation (the App Store) to restrict an interaction between both of the other things that aren't theirs.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by tmp231 on Monday May 24, 2021 @12:02PM (#27265967)
Yea, their OS, their store, their software stack. Sure, you own the device, so put whatever OS you want on it. But you can’t force Apple to write their OS however you want except by market forces. Well, you could try using extreme tactics like government regulation, but that’s a severe overreach and uncalled for just because you don’t like the way apple writes their software.
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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by josephcsible on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:42PM (#27272089)
> Sure, you own the device, so put whatever OS you want on it.

Apple keeps you from doing that.

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Re:Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly reve... by tmp231 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @01:28AM (#27272969)
Didn’t realize, I wish they wouldn’t. even more reason to not buy Apple (I’m typing this on an iPhone :) )

I agree with you that I wish they would allow it. I agree that I should be able to put windows 10 on my iPhone. Thanks for the back and forth, and we may not be able to get past our starting assumptions about the nature of trade/commerce, but I still wouldn’t want to legally force apple to do anything. People should definitely make a big stink about it, though. Thanks for the back and forth, but I’ll leave it there.

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