RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoApple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”bsky.appexternal-linkmessage-square249linkfedilinkarrow-up11.48Karrow-down117
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minus-squarekadu@scribe.disroot.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up127arrow-down1·1 month agoI don’t understand why society accepted that the hardware maker gets to decide what software you run. That’d be like your car deciding which roads you can take, or your blender deciding you’re not allowed to use strawberries in your smoothie. Are you nuts? Why the fuck would your phone decide which apps you can run?
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up64arrow-down1·edit-21 month ago Maybe our phones are their f’in phones too
minus-squareSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down1·1 month agoAgreed, too many people defend the App Store monopoly.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 month agoIs it that non tech people have a hard time understanding this? Or is it just all the corporate lobbying bribes?
minus-squareSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoThere was a person on a Lemmy.zip community that was arguing in favour of a lockdown approach.
minus-square0x0@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month ago That’d be like your car deciding which roads you can take, It’s a feature for the next release, don’t worry.
minus-squareawful_neutral@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days ago“To use this road, please download our optional expansion pack for $4.99”
minus-squareMML@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 month agoAnd for what reason do you not think we’re headed in that direction?
minus-squarechaosCruiser@futurology.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThat’s the key difference between mobile devices and actual computers. You are merely a user, not the administrator who can do anything with the hardware.
I don’t understand why society accepted that the hardware maker gets to decide what software you run.
That’d be like your car deciding which roads you can take, or your blender deciding you’re not allowed to use strawberries in your smoothie.
Are you nuts? Why the fuck would your phone decide which apps you can run?
Maybe our phones are their f’in phones too
Agreed, too many people defend the App Store monopoly.
Is it that non tech people have a hard time understanding this? Or is it just all the corporate lobbying bribes?
There was a person on a Lemmy.zip community that was arguing in favour of a lockdown approach.
It’s a feature for the next release, don’t worry.
“To use this road, please download our optional expansion pack for $4.99”
And for what reason do you not think we’re headed in that direction?
That’s the key difference between mobile devices and actual computers. You are merely a user, not the administrator who can do anything with the hardware.