Apple should be forced to allow the owners of Apple devices to install whatever they want. But they’ve created an illegal, monopolistic, anti-competitive trust and they are abusing it to the full extent of their power.
Forcing Apple to allow things on the app store is a remedy for Apple’s wrongdoing the same way as forcing Jason Voorhees to give his victims bandaids would be a remedy. It’s so minimal it’s performative as the wrongdoing should never have been tolerated in the first place.
OS and security is one thing. Who you trust is another thing. On their mobile OSes, Apple artificially conflates the two to keep you listening to them out of fear of losing security, when they know damn well jts entirely possible to provide a secure OS that lets you choose to trust someone other than them for everything else.
So Apple should be forced to allow iPhone owners to install Win32 programs on their iPhones? PS5 games? So Sony should be forced to allow PS5 owners to install Switch games on their PS5s?
If you’re going to misinterpret the scope of “whatever they want” at least be creative about it. I think they meant they wanted to be able to install tractors on their iPhone. Bonus points if it made cool transformer noises.
Clearly they actually meant any iPhone program/app.
Yes, apple should allow that, and Sony should allow that. Your “gotcha” seems pretty stupid, because “allow” doesn’t mean “facilitate” - it’s not Apple’s responsibility to make those things work on their devices, but Apple is going out of their way to prevent individuals from making those things happen on their own.
Android users do not need an app store to install apps onto their devices. Apple not only requires it, but only offers their own storefront and if i remember correctly, they take about 30% of all sales. Companies used to get around that by redirecting customers to a website that doesn’t use the app store to make purchases. Apple then banned those apps from their store making them no longer available to iPhone users. This has nothing to do with allowing people to install incompatible applications on apple devices.
Apple should be forced to allow the owners of Apple devices to install whatever they want. But they’ve created an illegal, monopolistic, anti-competitive trust and they are abusing it to the full extent of their power.
Forcing Apple to allow things on the app store is a remedy for Apple’s wrongdoing the same way as forcing Jason Voorhees to give his victims bandaids would be a remedy. It’s so minimal it’s performative as the wrongdoing should never have been tolerated in the first place.
Question, would Apple be able to do that while still keeping their “being more secure than android” thing?
Question, is that how MacOS works?
OS and security is one thing. Who you trust is another thing. On their mobile OSes, Apple artificially conflates the two to keep you listening to them out of fear of losing security, when they know damn well jts entirely possible to provide a secure OS that lets you choose to trust someone other than them for everything else.
So Apple should be forced to allow iPhone owners to install Win32 programs on their iPhones? PS5 games? So Sony should be forced to allow PS5 owners to install Switch games on their PS5s?
Do you see how dumb that is?
If you’re going to misinterpret the scope of “whatever they want” at least be creative about it. I think they meant they wanted to be able to install tractors on their iPhone. Bonus points if it made cool transformer noises.
Clearly they actually meant any iPhone program/app.
I didn’t misinterpret it. They replied saying yes they think all this should be allowed lol
https://lemmy.world/comment/17284365
Yes, apple should allow that, and Sony should allow that. Your “gotcha” seems pretty stupid, because “allow” doesn’t mean “facilitate” - it’s not Apple’s responsibility to make those things work on their devices, but Apple is going out of their way to prevent individuals from making those things happen on their own.
Android users do not need an app store to install apps onto their devices. Apple not only requires it, but only offers their own storefront and if i remember correctly, they take about 30% of all sales. Companies used to get around that by redirecting customers to a website that doesn’t use the app store to make purchases. Apple then banned those apps from their store making them no longer available to iPhone users. This has nothing to do with allowing people to install incompatible applications on apple devices.