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Comment by Andrew_nenakhov | Hacker News Reader

Apple's evil AppStore monopoly should be dismantled by the lawmakers. Users should own the device, not rent it from Apple. Until the users are in complete control which apps they can run, it is rent, not ownership.

For people happy with the current state of affairs: nobody will be forcing you to install third party stores or sideload apps.

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I think its days are numbered and Apple will be forced to open their product to other app stores.

Only a few more trillion dollars and its days are numbers.

Maybe, just maybe, Apple has so much money nobody can stop it.

It literally takes commenting out a single if statement to end this. The one that checks whether the certificate the app is signed with was issued by Apple. Imagine this many suffering caused by a single conditional branch instruction!

The problem is that the lawmakers all have iPhones.

That should give them more incentive.

The problem is republican lawmakers don't like writing laws interfering with businesses + democrat lawmakers benefit from Apple's politics.

And apple has their search histories...

Your ISP does, Google does, but I don’t think Apple has them in an identifiable way

these days ISPs only have the list of the IPs you have visited. With many things hosted on AWS and hidden behind Cloudflare, this list is almost useless.

CloudFlare probably has a list of most websites you have visited, though. And the contents of all CloudFlare-"protected" pages get proxied through their edge. They are effectively a Global Active Adversary.

I haven't seen them abusing this power except for some incompetence (i.e. injecting JS into pages that customers didn't sign up for) but maybe they're just really good at hiding it.

Your mobile keyboard records everything and reports back to the mothership...

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