I'm not sure which side I'm on. I'd like to be on Apple's side, for the sake of not having a government meddle in private affairs, but when a market has few competitors there is risk everyone becoming a closed ecosystem and there not being open alternatives. Ideally, we would have enough competition so that one company lifting up walls wouldn't be of much consequence.
Or they just need their phone to do basic smart phone stuff. I’ve gone back and forth between iOS and Android and have never wanted or needed something I’d need to side load. And for the majority of users that’s the same. The only thing I could see that would need to be side loaded would be an emulator. But I do not use my phone to play games. My purchasing decision usually comes down to battery life, camera, quality, and availability/ deal with my cell service.
The people who freak out over which phone you use are irritating. I’ve used both and have been harassed by both sides. I don’t care what color the speech bubble in text shows up as, and I don’t care about something that I never used on android that’s not on ios and vice versa.
Pro-consumer policies should be embraced by the populist right. It’s a natural extension of populism to support stuff like right-to-repair or allowing users to run whatever code they want on machines that they own. However, between the chamber of commerce wing of the GOP and the LOLbertarian influence, the right seems really reluctant to embrace pro-consumer policies.
I do think that iOS users should be able to sideload apps like you can on Android. It’s important because Apple and Google use their duopoly App Store status to push censorship and allowing users to bypass the app stores is a good first step in countering that.
I'm not sure which side I'm on. I'd like to be on Apple's side, for the sake of not having a government meddle in private affairs, but when a market has few competitors there is risk everyone becoming a closed ecosystem and there not being open alternatives. Ideally, we would have enough competition so that one company lifting up walls wouldn't be of much consequence.
My problem is I’ve never met an Apple user who did not know it was walled off. Most like it.
The cow loves the pen, all the way down the slaughter-house's chute, right until the bolt-gun hits the base of the skull...
Or they just need their phone to do basic smart phone stuff. I’ve gone back and forth between iOS and Android and have never wanted or needed something I’d need to side load. And for the majority of users that’s the same. The only thing I could see that would need to be side loaded would be an emulator. But I do not use my phone to play games. My purchasing decision usually comes down to battery life, camera, quality, and availability/ deal with my cell service.
The people who freak out over which phone you use are irritating. I’ve used both and have been harassed by both sides. I don’t care what color the speech bubble in text shows up as, and I don’t care about something that I never used on android that’s not on ios and vice versa.
I want my phone too dumb to spy on me. I just want a phone. The end of 3G denied me that.
I have been forced into the Googlag, and the Googlagers get the bolt, too.
Pro-consumer policies should be embraced by the populist right. It’s a natural extension of populism to support stuff like right-to-repair or allowing users to run whatever code they want on machines that they own. However, between the chamber of commerce wing of the GOP and the LOLbertarian influence, the right seems really reluctant to embrace pro-consumer policies.
I do think that iOS users should be able to sideload apps like you can on Android. It’s important because Apple and Google use their duopoly App Store status to push censorship and allowing users to bypass the app stores is a good first step in countering that.