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> But your belief that physical ownership of the object should mean you can make it do anything you want is… bounded by your actual capability to do so. No obj
by wyager 5y ago
> But your belief that physical ownership of the object should mean you can make it do anything you want is… bounded by your actual capability to do so.
No object should ever actively, uncompromisingly preclude me from using it to do something of which it is capable. Objects can suggest I take a certain course of action, but ultimately they must follow my instructions without trying to impede me. Any other way and I don’t truly own the object.
- jameshart 5y agoThe object of your iPhone will absolutely not impede you in any way from using its antenna to transmit a multicast IP packet on a WiFi network. It is up to you to figure out how to get the electrons in the antenna to wiggle in the appropriate manner to make that happen, but there are absolutely no constraints preventing you, as the owner of said iPhone, from doing so.
- wyager 5y ago> The object of your iPhone will absolutely not impede you in any way from using its antenna to transmit a multicast IP packet on a WiFi network. Yes it will. The premise of your claim is wrong. It impedes me from doing lots of things, like running apps that aren’t approved by Apple.
- jameshart 5y agoYou want Apple to give you some software that lets you do that without restriction. They don’t want to. So if you want to do so without restriction you’ll have to make your own software - as in, literally replace the entire software stack, rom/os/drivers with software that does what you want. Good luck with that, but don’t blame the device - the object you bought and own - for your failure to be able to.