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Re:Apple Announces Ability to Download Apps Directly from We... by whywhywhywhy on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:11PM (#39694265)
A product you consent to is hardly the same as the government cutting off the ability to use your phone and it sounds very silly to compare the two.

By no means do I agree with the walled garden, I just think cheering for such an absurd idea of the government disabling your phone to fight something most users don't even understand or care about is bizarre.

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Re:Apple Announces Ability to Download Apps Directly from We... by Etherlord87 on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @05:44PM (#39697927)
> A product you consent to is hardly the same as[...]

...The government you also consent to in elections and by deciding where you live?

I'm so sick of this argument: you chose to buy iPhone, it was your decision... But a large part of the law protects citizens against their bad judgement: we don't allow slave contracts or selling your organs.

Within some use-cases, and to a larger degree within some groups of people, Apple is a monopolist. People get *addicted* from Apple ecosystem. If you had a Mercedes house, with a Mercedes charger to your Mercedes Car, that you would park on a Mercedes parking spot near your workplace, it wouldn't be so easy to replace your car with another brand.

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