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Of course you own the hardware; you have the right to do whatever you want to it. If you want to use iPhones for target practice, have at it. You don't have the
by NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
Of course you own the hardware; you have the right to do whatever you want to it. If you want to use iPhones for target practice, have at it. You don't have the right to insist the manufacturer make it easy for you: your imagination about the uses to which the hardware could be put doesn't oblige the seller.
- Terretta 4y agoJust like a PS5. No, the iPhone and iPad are appliances, not general computing, forcing division between hardware, firmware, and software is a technical design decision that prevents users from choosing a fully vertically integrated appliance device. People who choose consoles over building PCs, and pick iPhones over tinkerable Android, have a right to that choice, and corporations have a right to market to them.
- ohgodplsno 4y ago>You don't have the right to insist the manufacturer make it easy for you I do, and it's easy, look: I believe Apple should let me install DOOM on the bootloader and make it easy for me to do so. If I had time to waste, I'd send emails every day, go protest in front of their HQ until I get what I want. Apple's allowed to not do anything about it, and I'm allowed to lobby my legislators to force Apple to do so. Because Apple's wishes are not law, not in any functioning country that I know of.
- junofan 4y agoDon’t think legislators can force Apple to write software for your phone in the US at least. Maybe in places with fewer free speech protections.
- ohgodplsno 4y agoNo, but they can force Apple to reveal how to write that software, as well as provide the existing and necessary tools to do so. In the same way, they cannot force Apple to write me a new, alternative app store, but they can force Apple to open the existing APIs to others. Also, making you write software has absolutely nothing to do with free speech.
- NovemberWhiskey 4y agoSo what you're saying is you don't have that right at the moment, but you feel you could have it if the law changed? OK, sure.