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You and I can agree on all that, but it won't make anyone care. When the dust settles, the ARM TrustZone bullshit and bootloader locking is justifiable, even if
by talldayo 2y ago
You and I can agree on all that, but it won't make anyone care. When the dust settles, the ARM TrustZone bullshit and bootloader locking is justifiable, even if only with inferior rationale. The state of consumer protections in America are not even remotely advanced enough to push back on this behavior, and businesses are ever grateful.
Zooming out, fighting against DRM APIs is not even a hill worth dying on. Stopping it would mean attacking a healthy and legal market that has multiple worse alternatives they can roll out. A more realistic goal is separating App Stores and App runtimes, to prevent anyone from conflating the two and playing keep-away with basic functionality of devices that people own.