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by threeseed 3890 days ago
But companies equally have a right to own the experience. Creating an app to harvest hardware identifiers and using that to track them is legal. But it tarnishes the experience of their product and is anti-consumer by every definition. Apple should have the ability not to allow that.

Just because something is legal does not make it morally or ethically "right".
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pjlegato 3890 days ago
The company doesn't own your phone. You do.

Surely YOU should be the one who decides what constitutes "proper" software to run on hardware that you purchased?

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TeMPOraL 3890 days ago
I'm a bit torn on this. On the one hand, I hate how not having ultra strict UX guidelines turns Android app ecosystem into shit (with every major app maker providing their own crap experience). On the other hand, I firmly believe the right of a company to control the "experience" I get from using a tool I bought from them should end the second I walk out of their store.

If they are to tell me how I can and can not use my device (above what the law says), then it's not my device, and it's not a tool.

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