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by mojuba 2131 days ago
> We pay damn much and buy the phone. It is the user's property from then on.

Sure, the App Store and its services however are not the user's property.
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fastball 2131 days ago
Right, but Apple prohibits the installation of apps that are not from their app store.
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mojuba 2131 days ago
True, but you are free to install only free apps, or no apps, or only your own apps pushed directly onto the phone. In fact you are free to fully operate without iCloud/AppStore (if I'm not mistaken)
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saagarjha 2131 days ago
Buying a general-purpose computing device to run a handful of built-in applications is not really fully operating it.
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