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What if we said: You can keep your app store tied to your platform: but you have to let users install their own os. Apple wants to maintain unbelievably tight
by rektide 5y ago
What if we said:
You can keep your app store tied to your platform: but you have to let users install their own os.
Apple wants to maintain unbelievably tight control in their whole world. Maybe they can have iOS, maybe we say, yeah, no one else can target that without Apple's permission. But users still need some rights to their own hardware, somewhere. So, document your hardware, open the bootloader, make it possible for alternate OSes to run, so users have some rights to what they own, aren't completely locked out & at Apple's total mercy.
I wonder which option Cook would take. It might be tempting, to assume that few users would be willing or interested in such a radical shift off.
As for Cook's "taking away a more secure option will leave users with less choice, not more," is there any place this has ever been true, has ever happened? How has F-Droid or other app-stores presence made Android users have less choice? How has Epic/Steam/Origin/UPlay/Windows Store on PC given users less options (there are some exclusives here but that's in contrast to everything always being exclusive)? This feels so radically disingenuous, seems like it has no data supporting it, feels like such a ridiculous & shitty fake-alarmist take from someone so heavily incentivized to lie his ass off.