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by Gunax 293 days ago
And yet, people keep buying i Phones. They have a choice. And they are opting in to a closed platform. Likewise with PlayStations and Wiis versus computer games.

Consumers largely don't care and are not interested in esoteric concepts like free software. I would be careful about dictating how things should work.
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echelon 292 days ago
Both platforms are closed. There is no choice.

Do you know how difficult it is to exercise your freedom to install software on an Android?

Both of these companies know what they're doing. They've co-opted computing and have locked it down and owned it.

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musicale 292 days ago
> Do you know how difficult it is to exercise your freedom to install software on an Android?

Download the APK, open it, and tap past the warnings?

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-install-apks-31494/

Isn't that about the same difficulty as installing an app from a .zip on Windows or a .dmg on macOS?

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