“Bureaucrats in Brussels” are unfairly challenging Apple’s closed ecosystem and denying users the “magical, innovative experience” that makes the firm unique, Apple said.

The so-called walled garden that combines Apple’s products and software ensures a safe and high quality experience for users, it says, but EU regulators counter that it unfairly shuts out rivals.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    As soon as I pay for it it becomes my phone, not Apple’s.

    And since it’s just a computer I should be allowed to put whatever software I want on it.

    Because it’s mine.

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      2 hours ago

      This, except I won’t buy an apple device (unless forced to: in Germany an i-bad is required in many high schools, yes you need to pay for it in full with your own money, yes it needs to be an i-bad they even require a specific model)