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Well, two things: 1. There are lots of people who get upset that their Nintendo won't let them install other things. There are hacker/homebrew communities tha
by kelnos 2y ago
Well, two things:
1. There are lots of people who get upset that their Nintendo won't let them install other things. There are hacker/homebrew communities that have formed around pretty much every console.
2. Phones are general-purpose computing devices. Consoles are not, even though modern consoles have hardware that is more or less the same as what you might find in a general-purpose computer.
> However, I see no reason why Apple should be forced into helping you do that.
It's the opposite problem: the default is to just let people do that. Apple has instead gone to the effort and work to lock down iOS to prevent sideloading. So no, Apple shouldn't be forced to help people sideload, but they should be forced to stop hindering people from sideloading.
- dylan604 2y ago> So no, Apple shouldn't be forced to help people sideload, but they should be forced to stop hindering people from sideloading. Now you sound like FBI director "we need backdoors for the good guys". By allowing a mechanism for side loading weakens the security of the device. If a good guy can use it, so can a bad guy.
- EMIRELADERO 2y agoAt the end of the day the proposition is very simple, there's no need to go into those backdoor analogies. No device manufacturer should have more control over that device's code execution than the end user of that device does after the sale.