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Increasingly in this modern world, no, you are not the owner of the device. You're more like purchasing the right to use it for a time, in the way that the make
by daemin 3y ago
Increasingly in this modern world, no, you are not the owner of the device. You're more like purchasing the right to use it for a time, in the way that the makers want you to use it. This applies across PCs, Macs, and Phones where Microsoft, Apple, and Google all try to up-sell you on their online services and now their "AI tools".
- refulgentis 3y agoHad me until 'AI tools'
- Zuiii 3y agoHopefully changing laws will cure companies from this delusional take. Most reasonable people don't think this way.
- chii 3y ago> Hopefully changing law the problem with having consumers take action is that they are completely shortsighted and will take the path of least resistence - a path that the companies will have charted out to make this transition as smooth and painless _for the consumer_ as possible while retaining as much monopolistic power as possible. There needs to be public institutions with the backing of the state to enforce property rights, including purchased devices.
- jamwil 3y agoTo offer a modest counterweight here, every iPhone owner bought the product knowing damn well that Apple keeps the OS locked down. If you don’t want that, don’t buy an iPhone. There’s no confusion about what the product is and what you can do with it.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y ago> every iPhone owner bought the product knowing damn well that Apple keeps the OS locked down No, average owner has no idea. But they will be relentlessly asking why your application is not supporting iOS
- jamwil 3y agoAverage owner with no idea is the exact person who benefits most from a locked down OS. The rest of us are free to choose something else.
- TheLoafOfBread 3y agoSo how is a 3rd party going to give support to a customer with iPhone, if Apple will ban such 3rd party for whatever reason? Let's say that given 3rd party is making a device, which can be controlled via Bluetooth from Windows, Android, MacOS and iOS. They don't make any money on any applications, but from the device.
- _chu1 3y agoIf you buy technology that treats you like a product and has a rape mentality because it's popular and easy, you don't deserve technology.
- the8472 3y agoYou're conflating the operating system with the hardware there. My PCs are not beholden to any of those companies
- thewileyone 3y agoYou buy a car but now you move your TV in it. The car manufacturer prohibits you because you didn't buy their truck and sues you for it. This cannot be allowed to become the norm.