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I install whatever software I want on my iPhone, and I don't have to ask Apple before I do it. I can install software with any license I want- apache, GPL, wha
by nirvana 15y ago
I install whatever software I want on my iPhone, and I don't have to ask Apple before I do it. I can install software with any license I want- apache, GPL, whatever. And I haven't jailbroken my phone.
You're shifting the goalposts. Stallman is complaining about the AppStore which is where Apple sells software and Apple chooses not to sell pornography. That's their choice.
Any consumer, with an iPhone that is not jailbroken, can install whatever software they want, provided it is written in HTML and javascript. The iPhone is a totally open, standards based, host, and Apple exercises no control over it. You can even go visit porn sites.
Further, Apple has worked to make this platform a first rate citizen in its operating system. HTML/Javascript Apps can be installed, added to the home screen, can have local data, and can run when there is no network connection, and they can do absolutely whatever you want.
- Daishiman 15y ago> Any consumer, with an iPhone that is not jailbroken, can install whatever software they want, provided it is written in HTML and javascript. That is the exact, very definition of "not any software they want". > Further, Apple has worked to make this platform a first rate citizen in its operating system. Too bad that in order to make it interact with my own computer, I have to install a proprietary, disgusting program with locked-down protocols.
- 5hoom 15y agoI'm an iOS developer & a fan of the app store system (from the small indie developers point of view), but there is no way I can kid myself that iOS is an open platform. Javascript & HTML are very nice inclusions, but really unless you can run arbitrary native code on the device I don't think it counts.
- freemarketteddy 15y agoWhat are you smoking?