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True, but that's tangential to the issue at hand.

To continue the physical home analogy, let's say you're a renter and your landlord has the ability and access to install something in your home at any time without you knowing. Maybe they include it as part of the terms for your upcoming lease renewal, maybe they don't.

Does that mean you should just accept it when they decide to install one of those devices in your home?

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> should you just accept it when they decide to install one of those devices in your home?

The device they installed is invisible and you will never have any way of knowing they were in there, it's irrelevant what you accept.

That's a further problem. That's the reason why you shouldn't accept closed platforms and closed-source software.

But it also doesn't lead to the conclusion that what Apple is trying to do here is good or even neutral.

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