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Apple business executives ban Fortnite from iOS. People around the world - including in Europe - say their iPhone is preventing them from playing the videogame. (www.clubic.com)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Epic intentionally broke the rules of the contract they agreed to, and had a lawsuit ready to go as soon as Apple rightfully removed their game from the store over the breach of contract. Epic were not the good guys.

You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.

You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.

You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.

You're looking at this the wrong way.

We do not expect Apple/Google/Samsung/etc to give us tools to do whatever we want. Hell, Google already ships adb that explicitly allows unlocking the bootloader on at least Pixel devices.

What we do want is for companies to stop intentionally preventing it with arbitrary restrictions that amount to nothing more than "because we said so".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That’s fine to want, but you’re not entitled to it and never should be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When did I ever say I was entitled to it?

Furthermore, why are you so eager to lick corporate boot over this? Just accept the fact that corps are fucking consumers over by trying to redefine terms like "purchase" and "own" to mean something other than their existing widely-accepted definitions.

If I buy an expensive piece of hardware, I do expect to be able to own it and install what I goddamn well please, corporate approval be damned. That's why I buy Pixels and standard PC hardware, because I can unlock the bootloader/disable secure boot and install what I goddamn well please. Can't do that with any iPhone, and rarely a Mac, because it goes against what Daddy Apple hath decreed.

Additionally, it is also acceptable to acknowledge the former and simultaneously acknowledge that Epic is a shitty company. They aren't mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 days ago

I was about to give a genuine reply, then I read your second sentence and now I realize there's no point. Straight to the tired old garbage "boot licker" insults. Have fun.