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> It's hard for me to imagine the "killer app" that can't be done on a platform that has a completely open web browser I don't want to write yet another web ap
by expeditious 17y ago
> It's hard for me to imagine the "killer app" that can't be done on a platform that has a completely open web browser
I don't want to write yet another web app. I want to write actual apps that run right on the device (or at least on a VM on the device). And as a user, I usually only use webapps when no good alternatives are available.
> I guess what I'm saying is just this: all the cries of "software freedom!!" as though it were a revolutionary political struggle ring hollow to me.
There is a struggle going on. Now, whether or not people choose to see it is another matter.
- glhaynes 17y agoA struggle for what? To run exactly the code you want to run on Apple devices? Let's keep in mind that that's what's being talked about here. Apple devices. Apple isn't making any proposal anywhere that says that you shouldn't be able to run the code you want to run on whatever device you choose that's not made by them. There are hundreds of them. Go use them, it's fine. Nobody minds. But to look at this one minority marketshare device and say you're being repressed because you can't buy one and run the code you want to on it is bizarre. Just buy something else. To do otherwise is to join in an intensely stupid struggle.
- astine 17y agoTo risk seeming paranoid, I imagine that it would be a lot easier to censor IPhones than to censor Android phones. Apple may be purely motivated by profit at the moment, but there is no reason to assume that a change in leadership or government intervention wouldn't compel them to use their control over their platform to some malicious end. Spying and censorship are two, not unprecedented, possibilities. Open platforms (particularly open-sourced platforms) are more resistant to this kind of problem.