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A law requiring hardware manufacturers to allow owners to run any software on their device would solve a lot of these Apple problems over time. Thats the root
by FreeTrade 3y ago
A law requiring hardware manufacturers to allow owners to run any software on their device would solve a lot of these Apple problems over time.
Thats the root of the problem. Apple has a monopoly on the social status associated with their devices, and leverages the monopoly in many unscrupulous and toxic ways. I consider Apple the most cynical and toxic of all the tech giants.
- CydeWeys 3y agoOh I wouldn't put it past Apple to take away your blue bubbles (or whichever one is the "good" one) if you do install non-Apple, non-Apple-app-store software on your phone.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoyou would also have to require them to ship software tools and actively support development by those that want to use their devices.
- jojobas 3y agoYes, break them up and require hardware-apple to treat software-apple on the same terms as any other software vendor. Mandated unlockable bootloader, of course.
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- wilsonnb3 3y agoIt is already legal to run whatever software on whatever device you want, what you actually want is to force Apple to make it easy for you.
- lolinder 3y ago> Apple has a monopoly on the social status associated with their devices, and leverages the monopoly in many unscrupulous and toxic ways. Status-signaling consumer products are always overpriced. It's what makes them useful as status signals. You used to buy expensive impractical clothes to show you could afford to buy expensive impractical clothes. Now you buy Apple devices to show that you can afford to buy overpriced tech. If you bring the price of the status symbol down to a more natural level it ceases to be a status symbol. Apple's defense of their control over the platform (and the higher-than-necessary prices they charge) isn't destructive to consumer welfare, it's the very thing consumers are paying for.