Since me side loading apps doesn't affect your device in any way I'd already be leaving you alone! Stop being so selfish
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Days of the yuuuuge companies are coming to an end. These big companies cant be trusted and force users to obey by their walled-garden rules.
Here's an analogy. It's like putting a garbage dump behind a building. Some people may be bothered, some people may not be....but having a garbage dump in back of a building has a rippling negative effect. In other words, your need to want to have Apple change (or be forced) to change, doesn't trump my need to not have it changed.
No one’s forcing anyone. You don’t have to be in the walled garden if you don’t want to be. No one will kill you if you don’t buy an iPhone or develop for it. Everyone has the freedom to not if they don’t like the perfectly reasonable requirements Apple sets for their own creation.
You are the selfish one demanding Apple change things just because you want something. Apple has no interest in enabling side loading. If you want it get an Android. It’s simple.
No user is forced to buy an Apple device. If you don’t like walled gardens buy an Android. Why is this so hard for people to understand?
Go AG Garland! Do Google, Amazon, and Facebook as well. Hit them all. Hard. Same with the major telecoms too. Title II!
but the garbage *bin didn't sit there forever and gets get emptied weekly,
sometimes bi-weekly!
*wow what a bad typo, sound like me was trashing ol' biden!
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You do realize that there are no winners in this and that we the users will be the losers. 99.99999999999% of people do not what side loading is nor would do so if they knew about it. The same percentage likes a single company to have their credit card and billing info and to accept all payments. Refunds and subscription cancellations are easy to start and complete.
With alternative billing you have to give up all your info and I can guarantee quitting will not be a click or two. Most likely there will be phone calls to sit through and people trying to convince you not to quit.
It would also be nice if:
- The phone was free
- All apps were free
- Everyone had unlimited funds
- No more war
- No more starving
- No criminals trying to break into your devices to steal your personal and financial info
- The list goes on
Or maybe the days of the huge private banks and crooked politicians are coming to an end? These big banks can’t be trusted and force users to pay insurmountable “global debt” which is impossible to pay.
Well, Apple for one does not need these banks(or politicians) which is the core issue of this topic. It might be more doable than you think.
What monopoly? What stranglehold?
Don't like what Apple is doing with their products, to wit the symbiotic pair of iPhone and iOS? You're free to choose many other options, starting at https://www.android.com and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/ .
Not unusual for a business, who makes a hardware/software symbiote product, to resist end users doing things that screw up product behavior and persuade customers to unduly complain about the manufacturer. Having been a very long-time Microsoft adherent, I'm very happy (and all-in) about how Apple curates the walled garden - and know full well the costs of going to a plethora of alternatives (yes, including DIY).