Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
by CivBase on Sunday November 12, 2023 @10:47AM
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Sounds to me like a design problem, not a justification for letting companies maintain control over the goods purchased from them.
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Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It
by FirmwareBurner on Sunday November 12, 2023 @10:52AM
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Sure, but since time immemoriam, this has been left to the "free market" to sort itself out, and the "free market" has let us to this point.
Should some government regulatory body like the EU intervene to force their hand? Maybe.
But do remember that in the "old-days" of dumbphones and featurephones you were getting no SW updates at all ever and replacing your phone every 2-3 years was the norm back then.
It's only now we're thinking about this as we start to think about phones more as general purpose computers in our pocket and less as phone dialing devices like in the old days.
One thing's for sure, it's that the free market will never self regulate itself on this matter.