[HN Gopher] Tim Cook: Users Who Want to Sideload Apps Can Use An...
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       Tim Cook: Users Who Want to Sideload Apps Can Use Android
        
       Author : nsnante
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2021-11-09 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | jet_32951 wrote:
       | And yes, they do. The filesystem of the original ipod convinced
       | me that Apple didn't want to build computers that played music
       | but instead wanted to mediate their influence. A site
       | "anythingbutipod.com" convinced me to go forward with Cowon music
       | players. And so it goes, if you want a real pocket computer that
       | does what you wish, it isn't apple.
        
       | theonemind wrote:
       | Sideloading seems like an exotic and vaguely illicit sounding way
       | of saying "installing applications not from Apple's app store".
       | This is kind of the mirror image of phrasing it like "install
       | apps without paying Apple 30%"
       | 
       | Annoyingly, entrenched powers have the podium and often claim the
       | prerogative of coining the terminology for the debate. Not that
       | they don't have a somewhat defensible position in terms of
       | security. But an effective Apple and Android smartphone duopoly
       | hardly makes the decisions of one player some neutral "let the
       | free market sort it out" kind of proposition.
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | I don't see any legislative resolve to this freedom to download
       | your app anywhere but from the EU and China.
       | 
       | Just like we have unlocked phones today as an option, we might
       | have to travel to Europe or China in the future to get iOS
       | devices without app locks on it.
        
       | HenryKissinger wrote:
       | And so Apple's anti-consumer, anti-freedom products continue.
        
       | 8jef wrote:
       | The security argument Apple has been spinning for so many years
       | is a fallacy of the worst kind.
       | 
       | Like pedling life in prison, with Uncle Tim as warden, as opposed
       | to the so much dangerous and risky life out there, in the wild,
       | where you can do whatever you want. Like owning a Pinephone.
        
       | dandotway wrote:
       | If we had Surgeon General-style warnings found on cigarette boxes
       | applied to Apple products what would the best labels be?
       | WARNING: Apple levies 30% App Store tax on hundreds of millions
       | of non-wealthy individuals in order to make an elite group of
       | AAPL       stock holding billionaires even richer.
       | WARNING: This device has no user serviceable parts and will be
       | without security updates and repair service within 5-7 years from
       | date of purchase. Manufacturer does not allow installing 3rd
       | party       operating systems such as Linux to extend usable
       | device life.
        
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