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> If I buy an iPhone, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that necessarily involves a relationship with the app store provider (
by mftrhu 22d ago
> If I buy an iPhone, I have the expectation of installing apps on it after purchase, and that necessarily involves a relationship with the app store provider (ie. Apple), not the store I bought the phone from.
That's because Apple supplies both the hardware and the software. Being a software supplier - the only such supplier - they need to keep being involved. This wouldn't be the case if third-party OSes existed for the iPhone - it doesn't need to be the case for M1/M2 MacBooks, for example, thanks to Asahi, or for any x86-based hardware.
- ckvibubueu 20d agoThey don't need to be involved. They force it on people and people are making a judgement call and a trade off that the upsides outweigh the downsides. That doesn't mean it's right or that people are happy about it or that it needs to happen. That would just be an appeal to the status quo.