People in this situation could also have chosen to not buy a cell phone in the first place, eschewing that benefit for using landlines or cordless phones; and yet, I don't think we would consider that a reasonable limitation, right?
Clearly, then, there is some line that we must draw where people are buying something they think they want and yet should still get to have full access to, and I don't see why it would correlate with Apple vs. Google.
In my case, I barely wanted a phone: I want a good camera attached to a good touch screen; I have requirements past that largely dictated by size, weight, and durability. That's the device I am looking for.
The devices which satisfy my needs are mostly from Apple or Samsung, both of whom lock down their devices. (Can I install an alternative browser on a Samsung Android device? Sure. But is it my device? No. No it is not and it has never been, by far. Samsung is only ever so slightly better than Apple with respect to that shit.)
The reality is: every device should be open. It shouldn't be some trade-off in the space where you don't get to have a device with any of the other key properties you want just because it is always a better business model to build a walled garden and then shill your services, charge a usage tax, or run advertisements.
That said, in a world where it is allowed to build closed devices, and it is some random set of tradeoffs that we all have to tolerate, we have to get to complain about it, because then it is just yet another property of the device, and we get to complain about all of the shitty decisions we had to put up with, whether that's the pricing, the functionality, the quality, the experience, the "tactile feel"... or whether it is open or not.
So like, I don't really see the framework in which this one axis is something where people don't get to complain because "they should have gotten some other random shitty device that isn't at all what you wanted but was open"... this seems to just be some broken narrative--mostly pitched by people who clearly aren't also tracking the anti-trust work against Google and haven't been a part of the fight to jailbreak all of the random locked down Android devices--pitched by people who seem to just like locked down stuff and Apple's puritanical control over morality :(.
These people don't even want freedom. When I read their posts, I almost can't believe they're not bots created by Apple to promote and normalize their interests.
I just wish their shitty decisions didn't affect me. Unfortunately they do.
Clearly, then, there is some line that we must draw where people are buying something they think they want and yet should still get to have full access to, and I don't see why it would correlate with Apple vs. Google.
In my case, I barely wanted a phone: I want a good camera attached to a good touch screen; I have requirements past that largely dictated by size, weight, and durability. That's the device I am looking for.
The devices which satisfy my needs are mostly from Apple or Samsung, both of whom lock down their devices. (Can I install an alternative browser on a Samsung Android device? Sure. But is it my device? No. No it is not and it has never been, by far. Samsung is only ever so slightly better than Apple with respect to that shit.)
The reality is: every device should be open. It shouldn't be some trade-off in the space where you don't get to have a device with any of the other key properties you want just because it is always a better business model to build a walled garden and then shill your services, charge a usage tax, or run advertisements.
That said, in a world where it is allowed to build closed devices, and it is some random set of tradeoffs that we all have to tolerate, we have to get to complain about it, because then it is just yet another property of the device, and we get to complain about all of the shitty decisions we had to put up with, whether that's the pricing, the functionality, the quality, the experience, the "tactile feel"... or whether it is open or not.
So like, I don't really see the framework in which this one axis is something where people don't get to complain because "they should have gotten some other random shitty device that isn't at all what you wanted but was open"... this seems to just be some broken narrative--mostly pitched by people who clearly aren't also tracking the anti-trust work against Google and haven't been a part of the fight to jailbreak all of the random locked down Android devices--pitched by people who seem to just like locked down stuff and Apple's puritanical control over morality :(.