I don’t work at Apple, do your own research. Also maybe next time do that research before buying a device and then complaining it doesn’t do what it never said it does.
How about you phrase your statements with intellectual honesty, instead of wasting my time having to explain this is not a case of "corporations locking down other people's devices" but it's a case of "you bought this device with the idea it runs iOS, that's the only thing Apple promised it'll do, and that's precisely what it does".
I'm not moving any goalposts. Your argument is this utterly ridiculous notion that you get to buy an iPhone and then whine it doesn't do what it never said it'll do.
It's like buying a Tesla and complaining it doesn't run on oil.
The responsibility is on you, as a buyer, to buy shit that does what you want it to do. It's full of phones that you can install whatever on. Buy one of those.
"How about we make it illegal for corporations to control the product they themselves make" is a shitty, entitled, spoiled brat behavior that honestly disgusts me to my core.
Yes, your time is so precious you spend it defending the monopolist practices of a multi-billion dollar corporation on a hacker forum.
> I'm not moving any goalposts.
First you compared having software freedom to invading someone else's private property. "Can I go to Walmart and setup my own store inside their store without permission?" You implied people's iPhones were still Apple's private property despite people having purchased them.
So I asked you in direct terms if this is really what you believe. You immediately backtracked by changing focus from hardware to software. "Just install your own OS", you said.
Okay. So how are people supposed to do that on the locked down device they bought? "I don't know, do your research, buy something else, stop complaining."
And I am the one being "intellectually dishonest"?
> Your argument is this utterly ridiculous notion that you get to buy an iPhone and then whine it doesn't do what it never said it'll do.
It doesn't have to be said. If I buy something, it's perfectly reasonable to assume I can do whatever I want with it. It shouldn't require some corporation's permission.
> It's like buying a Tesla and complaining it doesn't run on oil.
It's like buying a car and then finding out it only drives to pre-selected locations which pay 30% tax to the manufacturer for the privilege of having people reach them via that manufacturer's product.
> "How about we make it illegal for corporations to control the product they themselves make" is a shitty, entitled, spoiled brat behavior that honestly disgusts me to my core.
It's entitlement to actually want to own things I paid money for? You gotta be kidding me.
Yes, please. Who do I have to call at Apple to get an iPhone's bootloader unlocked?