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The user has no "right" to "install what they want". Words have meanings. Apple absolutely has the right to control what apps are available on its store, and w
by Bud 4y ago
The user has no "right" to "install what they want". Words have meanings.
Apple absolutely has the right to control what apps are available on its store, and what apps are not. This isn't about what is "appropriate"; you just made that up.
This also has nothing to do with "common sense", or at least what you think is common sense.
- otikik 4y ago> The user has no "right" to "install what they want". Words have meanings. If I own a gadget, I own it. That means that I _have the right_ to do whatever I want with it, including jailbreaking it, disassembling it, or throwing it from a cliff. Apple might not like it, and might take punitive action. Void the warranty, maybe even cancel your Apple account. But they can not send me to jail.
- Bud 4y agoRelax. Nobody is talking about sending you to jail. What's at issue is whether you have the right to force Apple to carry any apps you want, in their App Store. And you don't. It's really that simple.
- cvalka 4y agoWe're talking about sideloading, buddy.
- dane-pgp 4y agoNo, what's at issue is whether Apple has the right to gatekeep the relationship between people who have bought one of their phones and developers who write software which is capable of running on those phones. The EU has decided that Apple doesn't have that right, just as companies don't have the right to enforce a contract which requires that the signer becomes their indentured servant. We don't accept slavery of meatspace humans, so it is only consistent that we don't allow companies to own our digital selves too.
- vorpalhex 4y ago> whether you have the right to force Apple to carry any apps We are explicitly talking the opposite - let me install apps even if Apple disapproves of them. No need for the Appstore. Just let my sideload my own software on my own device I paid for with cash.
- otikik 4y agoRelax. My post didn't talk only about jail. > you have the right to force Apple to carry any apps you want You might be talking about that, but I get the impression that the rest of us are talking about something else. I have, for example, specifically mentioned jailbreaking.