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Apple's evil AppStore monopoly should be dismantled by the lawmakers. Users should own the device, not rent it from Apple. Until the users are in complete contr
by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
Apple's evil AppStore monopoly should be dismantled by the lawmakers. Users should own the device, not rent it from Apple. Until the users are in complete control which apps they can run, it is rent, not ownership.
For people happy with the current state of affairs: nobody will be forcing you to install third party stores or sideload apps.
- dole 4y agoThe problem is that the lawmakers all have iPhones.
- Axien 4y agoThat should give them more incentive.
- catothedev 4y agoThe problem is republican lawmakers don't like writing laws interfering with businesses + democrat lawmakers benefit from Apple's politics.
- LatteLazy 4y agoAnd apple has their search histories...
- mrexroad 4y agoYour ISP does, Google does, but I don’t think Apple has them in an identifiable way
- LatteLazy 4y agoYour mobile keyboard records everything and reports back to the mothership...
- mrexroad 4y agoSource?
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y agothese days ISPs only have the list of the IPs you have visited. With many things hosted on AWS and hidden behind Cloudflare, this list is almost useless.
- LoganDark 4y agoCloudFlare probably has a list of most websites you have visited, though. And the contents of all CloudFlare-"protected" pages get proxied through their edge. They are effectively a Global Active Adversary. I haven't seen them abusing this power except for some incompetence (i.e. injecting JS into pages that customers didn't sign up for) but maybe they're just really good at hiding it.
- Axien 4y agoI think its days are numbered and Apple will be forced to open their product to other app stores.
- r12343a_19 4y agoOnly a few more trillion dollars and its days are numbers. Maybe, just maybe, Apple has so much money nobody can stop it.
- grishka 4y agoIt literally takes commenting out a single if statement to end this. The one that checks whether the certificate the app is signed with was issued by Apple. Imagine this many suffering caused by a single conditional branch instruction!