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A comment on AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices. Parent comment

Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by withinboredom on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:22PM (#27573558)
> if you bought a product and expect its software to do things its creators are clear it doesn’t do, then that’s on you.

I'd expect a computer to compute, whether it's scheduled by Windows, Linux, or iOS; whether Apple thinks I should install a software package or not. It should compute what I want it to, after all, it's using the electricity that I paid for.

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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by code_duck on Sunday June 20, 2021 @05:22PM (#27574037)
It does compute, using iOS. If you want to use Linux or Windows why would you buy a device known to not work with them?
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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by withinboredom on Monday June 21, 2021 @08:33AM (#27578523)
It can work with them, only Apple has locked down the bootloader.
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