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Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It by gigel82 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:33PM (#38242833)
> but Apple is ... keeping us more in control of our devices, by limiting which applications can be run on them

Holy Stockholm syndrome level of cognitive dissonance batman!

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Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It by brandensilva on Sunday November 12, 2023 @02:36PM (#38243392)
Lol major distopian vibes. "The government keeps me safe by preventing me from doing anything against the law (that they decide at their own free will). I love my brain chip."
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Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It by paulmd on Sunday November 12, 2023 @10:54PM (#38246695)
Why wouldn’t anyone love their brain chip? You’d obviously be programmed to.
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Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It by jstarfish on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:21PM (#38243744)
Haha. It's worded very poorly ("safe from" != "in control of") but they are not wrong.

The whitelist approach to security has its merits.

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Re:You Paid $1k for an iPhone, but Apple Still Controls It by missingrib on Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:39PM (#38246264)
It's true though. Not us in particular, but 99% of smartphone users
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