Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke the mobile browser market

Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by perryizgr8 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @05:43AM (#27947952)

IMO it is absolutely inexcusable that a device I paid for, does not let me run the software I want to. Lack of browser engine diversity is but a small symptom of that larger root problem. The owner/user must have final authority to run, use it as they like.

If the market is failing to ensure this for the vast majority of the phones and tablets sold, the state must intervene. This is classic monopoly abuse.

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by akagusu on Sunday July 25, 2021 @06:39AM (#27948177)

You don't own your device, you are just licensing it.

When you pay for a device you are only paying a license to use the device, since you need a firmware to run the device and the firmware is licensed to you without any ownership transfer.

Your device does what the firmware allow it to do, therefore you are only allowed to do what the real owner of the firmware wants you to do.

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by ogurechny on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:40AM (#27948743)

Well, you've paid, and that very moment everyone has stopped caring what you think.

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