U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by _aavaa_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:38PM (#39780902)

Rights are things that you cannot choose to give up. You explicitly cannot trade them away since the poorest people would be forced to do that in order to afford anything.

I assert that I have rights under the first sale doctrine which let me do whatever I want with the things I own. Apple has no more of a right to dictate what I put on my device than Walmart has a right to dictate when I put on my table simply because they sold it to me.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by ethbr1 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:11PM (#39783779)

The failure of the courts to update first sale doctrine to the digital age is the root cause of many ills.

Unfortunately, it's a tricky question, because it's more akin to compelling speech when the content is served by another party at a future time.

If I get a device that uses cloud functionality... is whoever I sell that device to entitled to that functionality?

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by _aavaa_ on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:58PM (#39785466)

Well the more important question is are you entitled to that functionality, or can it be taken away on a whim?

But those are more "advanced" questions. We still haven't even established the fact that I should indeed own the thing I purchased (see music or movies or anything). So we have a while to go before we get to questions of transference of services.

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