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Are they owned more by google or apple than say Windows and well.. MacOS? Maybe because they are more 'closed' in the apps you can install, but you can downloa
by Insanity 7y ago
Are they owned more by google or apple than say Windows and well.. MacOS?
Maybe because they are more 'closed' in the apps you can install, but you can download and store the same files on them as a computer.
What the average user needs is a browser, and they probably do more or less the same with a phone as a computer.
- otabdeveloper4 7y ago> Are they owned more by google or apple than say Windows and well.. MacOS? Well, yes. There's a legal definition that explains what exactly it means to "own" something that I don't care to delve into right now, but in a nutshell, it involves things like being able to control, use and delegate the object in question in arbitrary ways. Google/Apple remote-control your phone. They don't exercise that capability, mostly[1], but its mere existence shows that you don't own your phone. [1] Apple went and deleted a bunch of apps I 'owned' and paid for. There is no way to get them back now. People think this is somehow the new normal, but I think this is slightly insane.
- Insanity 7y agoIt is but windows has similar backdoors and just does not use them. I am not arguing against you by the way, I completely agree with you in fact. But I don't think it is worse than the propriatery operating systems on our computers. :)
- otabdeveloper4 7y ago> It is but windows has similar backdoors and just does not use them. I'm pretty sure they're illegal. Or were, back when people didn't have confused notions about what constitutes 'ownership'.
- Insanity 7y agoI mean that windows can push any update, closed source, so you can't verify what it does. That is an accepted 'backdoor'