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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by shadowgovt on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:50PM (#33824112)
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).

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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by pixl97 on Thursday December 01, 2022 @05:57PM (#33824189)
In the US a large portion of phones are via carrier contract and hardware locked. So no.
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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by shadowgovt on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:01PM (#33824241)
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?"
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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by themitigating on Thursday December 01, 2022 @08:15PM (#33825507)
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

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Re:Apple Blocks Coinbase wallet, for not giving them a 30% c... by martimarkov on Friday December 02, 2022 @07:03AM (#33829434)
In the US I can just buy an iPhone from Apple with no hardware lock. So no.
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