Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Search

Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by matheusmoreira on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:07AM (#38038607)

I don't want to buy other devices. I want to buy Apple devices. I think they're just better phones in every way. I should have every right to buy an Apple device and run whatever software I want on it. I shouldn't be forced to use their software and I certainly shouldn't have less choices just because they want to "own" their "platform". These "all or nothing, take it or leave it" propositions are hostile to consumers and should be resisted at all costs. I should be able to get an iPhone without iOS.

I sure as hell won't "mind my business" while my freedoms are being denied by rent seeking corporations. If it was up to me, that'd be illegal. Hopefully the EU will put an end to the notion that they can "own" markets. Don't know what spirit possessed them to do it but I ain't gonna argue with a good thing.

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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by TerrifiedMouse on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:18AM (#38038759)

Well I don’t want people forcing to Apple to change things when things are working just fine.

Currently opening up the browser to others just means Apple will lose control over that part of the UX as Chrome will eventually take over giving Google to have full control of the future of the web.

Now you will tell me, “We have Firefox!”. I use Firefox too on PC … tell me how that’s working out market-share wise.

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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by matheusmoreira on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:31AM (#38038943)

I share the same concern. Browser monocultures should absolutely be prevented.

Keeping Apple platforms closed is not the answer though. The answer is to separate Chrome from Google.

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Re:Google's Plan to Stop Apple from Getting Serious About Se... by carlosjobim on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:34PM (#38105663)

Read your comment again and reflect on how you and others have reached total entitlement mentality. Everybody has to bend over backwards to accommodate you, otherwise "your freedoms are being denied" or it's "an abusive relationship" as another hacker wrote here in the thread. There are real people with real problems in this world. Not being able to install Linux on an iPhone is not a real problem. Either purchase products that suit your use or make products that suit your use, it is beyond being spoiled to demand that somebody else mass produces a product to suit exactly your individual preferences down to the most minute detail.

> I shouldn't be forced to use their software

Nobody has ever tried to force you or other hackers to use any software.

> I should have every right to buy an Apple device and run whatever software I want on it.

You can do that if you have the know-how how to take complete control of the device by soldering and making your own microchips and software. Nobody can stop you from opening your iPhone and doing what you want with it.

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