• kadu@scribe.disroot.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    95
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    9 hours ago

    I don’t understand why society accepted that the hardware maker gets to decide what software you run.

    That’d be like your car deciding which roads you can take, or your blender deciding you’re not allowed to use strawberries in your smoothie.

    Are you nuts? Why the fuck would your phone decide which apps you can run?

    • 0x0@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      55 minutes ago

      That’d be like your car deciding which roads you can take,

      It’s a feature for the next release, don’t worry.

      • willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        30
        ·
        edit-2
        7 hours ago

        Apple welding their phones to their own store, exclusively, is just like paying workers with scrip instead of dollars. This used to be a common practice for capitalists. The scrip is spendable only in the company store.

        We have to stop all such anticompetitive practices.

        Just a reminder, to stop the practice of getting paid in scrip the American workers had to take up arms and shoot some people. Look up Battle of Blair Mountain. It’s not like the capitalists stopped the practice just because it was unpopular, lol. Nor did the anticompetitive practice of paying wages in scrip stop because people called their senators and wrote angry letters.

      • jaybone@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        8 hours ago

        Is it that non tech people have a hard time understanding this? Or is it just all the corporate lobbying bribes?