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My "issue" here is that you're presupposing this is what the people want, and that Apple is acting incongruently with what American society was built by "us" to

My "issue" here is that you're presupposing this is what the people want, and that Apple is acting incongruently with what American society was built by "us" to support. I'd use my one vote and my voice to try and avoid that situation, but I accept that in a democracy my vote is not meant to have a significant impact. For something like "data privacy" I'd go with what the country wants (not that I really have a choice), but I doubt the country would vote that way considering what we've built is largely based on the concepts of freedom and private ownership. It seems antithetical to those ideas to prohibit people from selling what we tend to agree is rightfully theirs.

stale2002 4y ago
> is that you're presupposing this is what the people want, At least in Europe it is pretty clear that this is what people want. And they are almost certainly going to pass a law that regulates Apple. > to prohibit people from selling what we tend to agree is rightfully theirs. The phone belongs to the user once they buy it. That phone is rightfully theirs, and these new laws will allow a user to do what they want with that phone. Apple also has the protection of patent and copyright laws. Those are government regulation that prevent other people from selling software. If we really want to go full "people should be allowed to do what they want, with things that they own", then perhaps we should allow everyone to manufacture iPhones, and sell modified versions of that software. (as in literally, people should be allowed to steal Apple's, and make actual iPhones) I am sure that there are some factories that already have access to iPhone manufacturing plans that would be happy to do what they want with their own property, and sell iPhones themselves.