[whywhywhywhy]

or more likely learn extremely quickly that their citizens prefer their iPhones to their politicians, there would be protests within the hour if they ever blocked iPhones.

Weird to me how common it has become in the last 5 years for people to gleefully cheer for tyranny and control.

[no_time]

Yes, the tyranny of... forcing Apple to open up its walled garden. I am cheering for that and more. Mandate open bootloaders. Mandate user installed EK (Endorsement Key) on all TCB enabled devices.

[VladTheImpalor]

You mean the tyranny and control of Apple? With their removing headphone jack, lightning cable, walled garden and all that?

[whywhywhywhy]

A product you consent to is hardly the same as the government cutting off the ability to use your phone and it sounds very silly to compare the two.

By no means do I agree with the walled garden, I just think cheering for such an absurd idea of the government disabling your phone to fight something most users don't even understand or care about is bizarre.

[Etherlord87]

> A product you consent to is hardly the same as[...]

...The government you also consent to in elections and by deciding where you live?

I'm so sick of this argument: you chose to buy iPhone, it was your decision... But a large part of the law protects citizens against their bad judgement: we don't allow slave contracts or selling your organs.

Within some use-cases, and to a larger degree within some groups of people, Apple is a monopolist. People get *addicted* from Apple ecosystem. If you had a Mercedes house, with a Mercedes charger to your Mercedes Car, that you would park on a Mercedes parking spot near your workplace, it wouldn't be so easy to replace your car with another brand.

[DirkH]

"Tyranny and control"

I can't get the boomer comic where the guy pulls the calendar and sees the next year is 1984 out of my head now.