And that's why we should open up stores by law if necessary.
Apple shouldn't be the one to tell me what kind of apps I can have on the device I've bought with my money.
Apple shouldn't be the one to tell me what kind of apps I can have on the device I've bought with my money.
That being said, a choice has to be made because two different entities have mutually exclusive rights: Do you side with an individuals' right to install whatever they want on a device they purchased? Or, a large company's right to restrict devices however they see fit?
Absent government outlawing a bunch of the bad behavior Apple tries to curb, I like being free to have that choice to opt into their regime. When corporate dragnet spying and other hostile bullshit is outlawed and the laws are effectively enforced, sure, I'd want Apple to tear down the walls on their garden.
(please don't just post "but you wouldn't have to use alt stores!" in response—it's been done to death on here, and everywhere else, differences opinion are apparently irreconcilable and we're not likely to gain any ground here today, and Android's still kickin', so the option for that kind of environment does exist for those who want it)
Amusingly, advocacy of optional regulatory regimes enforced by corporations is usually a right-Libertarian position. Not that that's necessarily a point in its favor (see again: I'd much prefer this crap simply be illegal) but those folks do love free markets.
Ok, well then there is similarly competition of regulator regimes in the literal sense.
> I like being free to have that choice to opt into their regime
Different governments, are competing with different set of laws. I like the fact that I can have these government laws.
And if Apple does not like these laws, then it can opt out of the EU market, when their laws come into effect.
They can opt into a different country, by not selling their product in a place that has laws that they don't like.
I'm confused. Did you buy an iPhone not knowing that it's not a general purpose computer?
For example, when I purchased my device, Fortnite was still available on the device, and Apple wasn't actively blocking Xbox's Cloud Streaming (back then it was xCloud Beta)
Example: I can buy an Xbox and curse Microsoft that I can't play The Last of Us on it, but that's really on me.
If you don't like the political process then you can vote for someone else, who will pass the right laws, or appoint the right people to make such laws.
If you don't like the legal process, then do that, leave the country, or do business elsewhere.
Countries have a right to have laws that regulate companies. The population does not belong to Apple.
That population has a right to run their country how they see fit, regardless of the objections of Apple.
And if Apple tries to get around the law, you can expect them to suffer billions and billions of dollars of fines, or further legal consequences. Countries do not belong to Apple, and they have no right to get around the legal process.
Just because it’s the best of two bad options doesn’t mean you have to be happy with it.