I don't get it either. People come to Hacker News to defend the antithesis of everything hacking stands for. Makes absolutely no sense to me.
Again nobody has managed to challenge my point that if you want side loading there is another platform you can use. Why does every platform needs to be so open? You wanna tell me there are NO benefits from a closed platform?
I can still side load using my Dev Account so I want a specific app - I’ll build it and have it. Anyone can side load with a dev account so the entire point as I keep coming back is because of the revenue to developers not freedoms.
I don't want another platform. I like Apple's hardware. I think it's really well made and would like to purchase it instead of Samsung phones.
That's all the justification necessary.
> You wanna tell me there are NO benefits from a closed platform?
I wanna tell you that none of these benefits matter if they come at the cost of computer freedom.