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Re:iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, brows... by pbh101 on Saturday January 27, 2024 @06:55AM (#39154815)
EU could decide next that app sandboxing is anticompetitive restrictive gatekeeper behavior and force Apple to change that too. It too violates the ‘it is my hardware let me do what I want’ ethos expressed in this comment section.
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Re:iPad users will miss out on third-party app stores, brows... by nulld3v on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:55PM (#39159735)
And they should because full access to your own electronics should be a right, not a privellege.

Android already provides the option to root their phones and no reasonable user would go through the process to root their phone!

Even iOS had jailbreaks for a long time and exactly what kind of harm has that brought to the iOS ecosystem? Zero. Nothing.

The process to root/jailbreak definitely should not be an easy process because most users should definitely not be doing it. But it must exist.

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