Comment on Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
Username@feddit.org 5 weeks agoApple already lost in the EU and need to allow other app stores
Comment on Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly
Username@feddit.org 5 weeks agoApple already lost in the EU and need to allow other app stores
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
Other app stores that are approved by Apple while giving Apple a cut after a million downloads of an app.
You still can’t install whatever .ipa file you want on iOS, even in Europe.
What really needs to happen is that the consumer needs to own the device they bought. What this means in the smartphone world is a few things: root access, unlockable bootloader, and replacable signing keys for the primary bootloader while providing a firmware package to go back to 100% stock (so no Samsung Knox that irrevocably triggers after unlocking the bootloader, or DRM keys that get irrevocably wiped when unlocking the bootloader) (all of these being optional features that the user has to explicitly enable). Anything short of that is not ownership.
umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
And also the ability to relock the bootloader.