Yes, apple should allow that, and Sony should allow that. Your “gotcha” seems pretty stupid, because “allow” doesn’t mean “facilitate” - it’s not Apple’s responsibility to make those things work on their devices, but Apple is going out of their way to prevent individuals from making those things happen on their own.
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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks agoSo Apple should be forced to allow iPhone owners to install Win32 programs on their iPhones? PS5 games? So Sony should be forced to allow PS5 owners to install Switch games on their PS5s?
Do you see how dumb that is?
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Android users do not need an app store to install apps onto their devices. Apple not only requires it, but only offers their own storefront and if i remember correctly, they take about 30% of all sales. Companies used to get around that by redirecting customers to a website that doesn’t use the app store to make purchases. Apple then banned those apps from their store making them no longer available to iPhone users. This has nothing to do with allowing people to install incompatible applications on apple devices.
NGnius@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
If you’re going to misinterpret the scope of “whatever they want” at least be creative about it. I think they meant they wanted to be able to install tractors on their iPhone. Bonus points if it made cool transformer noises.
Clearly they actually meant any iPhone program/app.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 weeks ago
I didn’t misinterpret it. They replied saying yes they think all this should be allowed lol
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