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Comment by ftyhbhyjnjk | Hacker News Reader

Good good. Apple has been abusing their dominant position for far too long. If it's my hardware, I'll do whatever tf I want. Apple can't do shit.

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They weren't trying to tell you what to do with your machine, they were trying to tell you what you were not allowed to do with THEIR software.

This reminds me of when Apple tried to make it so that you can't own an iPhone, only lease it. The effort might be still ongoing, I'm not up to date. A few different turns in history and your sentence would have been "THEIR machine" and "THEIR software".

The fact that (baring exploitable bugs) you can only run Apple approved software on an iOS device pretty much makes it "THEIR machine" anyway.

Didn't the EU have something to say about that lately?

You might be thinking about the DMA, which adds a lot of responsibilities to "gateway" providers and platforms like Apple and iOS.

However the EU ruled many years ago on this subject (https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/apple-iphone-jail...). In effect, jailbreaking and modifying software is perfectly legal, as long as it's not for copyright infringement.

You can get a free Apple developer account and run any software you build on your own devices.

imagine if you needed a free ford account to be able to run any backseat you want in your new car

Imagine a world without bad car analogies...

The way that works is you pay apple an annual fee so that they will sign your applications using their key. Their devices still check that the application is signed by apple. I think you could reasonably say you have no control over that device you paid for if this is what you have to do to run your software on it.

You only pay a fee if you want to distribute. It's free to build your own code and run it on your own phone.

As long as it remains signed (and thus approved) by Apple.

I can't buy iOS, but I must use iOS to use the phone they sold me. This is legal, but just because something is legal doesn't necessarily mean that it's ethical or is good for all parties involved. The iOS emulator in Xcode is nothing short of dog shit, and it's not really an emulator as much as it's a halfway house reimplementation of iOS's userland for macOS. I don't believe there's any need to defend Apple's decision to deter people from running iOS anywhere and everywhere.

> what you were not allowed to do with THEIR software

And now cars, door locks, TVs and toilers all have software. So every comoany will be telling you what to do.

This is your daily reminder that, unlike ownership of physical objects, IP os a privilidge granted for advancing sciences and arts. Not for making things worse

Their software is no longer their software the moment it touches my machine. My bytes, my stuff. You can delude yourself into thinking "but licenses and EULAs say you can't", but the best Apple can do is beg that I don't, and make my life hard for me to do so.

Which is extremely telling of how little consideration they have for their users.

They can still use dark patterns to make people avoid the VMs. E.g., show unnecessary security warnings.

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