Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c...
by shadowgovt on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:50PM
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If it actually mattered to enough people, they would sail over to that island. The fact that most don't is extremely telling about what people actually want, I think.
(F-Droid is right there. It's relatively trivial to install on an Android device. As is, last I checked, replacing the whole Android OS).
Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c...
by pixl97 on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:57PM
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In the US a large portion of phones are via carrier contract and hardware locked. So no.
Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c...
by shadowgovt on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:01PM
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The law mandated phone number portability in 2003. Everything else is buyer beware. Why is the answer not just "Don't get in a contract with Apple hardware if you don't want to be stuck playing Apple's ballgame?"
Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c...
by themitigating on Thursday December 01, 2022 @08:15PM
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That's the responsibility of the consumer to read the contract. You also can leave with a penalty.
Libertarianism is like the tide on hackernews, it's quite confusing
Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c...
by martimarkov on Friday December 02, 2022 @07:03AM
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In the US I can just buy an iPhone from Apple with no hardware lock. So no.
Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c...
by zaphirplane on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:31AM
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Idk
A chicken farmer doesn’t even dream of keeping 70% the retail price of a chicken
I think we are both pushing the metaphor beyond usefulness
But it's ok because you have the option of building your own store on your own island and convincing enough people to relocate to your island to buy chicken direct.