this is the fucking thing i hate with apple

they have managed to complelely normalise the idea that hardware is a service, a platform that they should control

bitch, i buy metal, i will run whatever the fuck i want on it

I don’t have to do anything. I’m not getting the “platform” from Apple for free, I’m paying tons of money for a phone and once purchased, I use it by my rules, because, once sold, it’s not longer their property, it becomes my phone. And my phone runs the apps I like, simple.

In the same way you could try to justify platforms like Amazon taking away books or movies you had purchased. But most people choose to disagree rather than blindly submit to vendor’s arbitrary whims.

Apple restrict running MacOS on non-native hardware

That’s why there’s various Hackintosh projects.

@musictraveler @ackasaber when the duopoly of apple and google have got everyone to be part of their "ecosystem"

the choice is to either be an outcast in life, or live in their duopoly

this should 100% be illegal and i will 100% blame apple and google for this

@musictraveler @ackasaber

i am one person, not a trillion dollar worth company

what you suggest is just stupid

@musictraveler

When I buy a product and I know already in front that this product comes with very strict regulations from the manufacturer

That sounds like very American thinking where people absolutely distrust government and equally absolutely trust private for profit companies. As if the for-profit motivation made them somehow less prone to abuse their customers and more “honest”, while endless stream of examples demonstrates the opposite. The thing is that Apple, Twitter or Google don’t sell their products in EU directly from US, because they would not be able to draw profits - they sell them through their EU branches, which are naturally subject to EU law. In the same way you could argue that if Apple doesn’t like EU regulations, it’s free to leave the EU market - which it of course doesn’t do because it’s $$$.

Where did you get your information about Americans "absolutely trust private for profit companies"? I live Chicagoland, and I absolutely fucking hate both the Government and the Corporations. I hate politicians, I hate activists, I hate everyone who's boot is on my neck.

I work for the EU from the USA, I scrub environmental BOMs for their ECHA databases. Its an out-of control bureaucratic CORPORATION that only knows how to SPEND money.

I do not have opinions, I have life experiences.