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I'm sure if you install some version of Linux in your iPhone you can do whatever you want. But you're probably using iOS.
by Findeton 6y ago
I'm sure if you install some version of Linux in your iPhone you can do whatever you want. But you're probably using iOS.
- swiley 6y agoI would install desktop Linux on my iPhone if I could but there are no drivers in mainline and they work hard to lock the bootloader down (and before someone suggests android, the intention there is just as bad but tends to be less well executed and there still aren’t suitable drivers available.)
- Findeton 6y agoWell if your intention is to install Linux in your phone maybe iPhone is not the best choice.
- swiley 6y agoGive me a better choice and I’ll go buy it right now if it actually works. Anything requiring a single android component goes in the “doesn’t actually work” category.
- Findeton 6y agoWell if Apple is the best choice then there's no need to complain to them.
- swiley 6y agoThe reason they’re the best choice is because I’m stuck with whatever OS the device ships with and android is a pretty broken OS. Neither is nice but at least iOS gets updates.
- Spivak 6y agoI mean the Librem 5 "works" in the way you describe. I don't think you're going to really be able to reliably avoid the problem that very very very few people outside of AOSP are doing any work on OSS for phones.
- swiley 6y agoI bought a pine phone the other month when the postmarketOS version was released. I’m looking forward to getting it some time in November.
- __d 6y agoOn what grounds are you demanding that Apple sell the product that you want to buy? They sell products. Those products have well-known rules. If you don't like the rules, don't buy the product.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoThis sounds like some gop talking point, embarrassing.
- __d 6y agoThat's the nature of our society. An argument can be made that it's morally wrong, but if you're going down that road, there's a lot of things should be morally more compelling than Apple's AppStore policies.
- leadingthenet 6y agoThey don’t really give you the option of installing Linux on the iPhone tho, do they?
- Spivak 6y agoThis is pretty much the whole legal theory of locked-down devices. Since you own them you're free to whatever you like to the hardware including breaking any locks preventing you from running your own software on them. But the vendor has no obligation to help, or support you in doing this. This is pretty much the whole reason the GPLv3 exists.
- erklik 6y ago> But the vendor has no obligation to help, or support you in doing this. No obligation to help vs actively hindering are not really the same thing.