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Can you make an iPhone, just without Apple? Nope Their designs are protected at the point of a gun through patents and copyrights. Breaking those literally me
by hajile 5y ago
Can you make an iPhone, just without Apple?
Nope
Their designs are protected at the point of a gun through patents and copyrights. Breaking those literally means the police will use force to stop you and to ruin and imprison you.
Take away these restrictions and you’d see an identical iPhone, but without Apple’s restrictions. I bet that phone would sell millions. That would actually allow voting with your wallet to be real.
Since the government enables these behaviors, it is also the only one who can actually reign them in. Unless these nearly perpetual lock-ins stop, voting with your wallet is impossible.
- judge2020 5y agoSo you want the result of Apple's tens of billions of dollars of hardware R&D, but without paying them for it.
- hajile 5y agoThere’s no fundamental human right to a monopoly of an idea. This is actively acknowledged in the language of the US Constitution. If Apple actually delivered what was best for consumers, knock-offs wouldn’t matter too much. My actual argument is that either we must regulate the idea monopoly we created or eliminate it by stopping the government protectionism.