While alternative app stores operate independently and are required by EU law, Apple is still in a position to exert some control. This became apparent a few weeks ago, when iTorrent users suddenly ran into trouble when installing the app.

Thought this was an interesting story, since it's pretty analagous to the recent Android situation, with third party app stores being enabled to some extent, but the company retaining ultimate censorship power.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 84 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's not an alternative if they still have final say.

it's also not your property if the company can dictate what you run on it either. Stop giving these scum your money.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Yeah, neither Android nor iOS is good. We should all be buying linux devices, like this: https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

They don't have any in the U.S unfortunatly. They wont sell the radios to access our cell networks to companies that wont do what they want them to do. Like lock bootloaders, ban apps they dont like, etc.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 points 7 hours ago

Whomp.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How, pray tell, is that a replacement for a phone??

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

It isn't. I don't particularly care for phones, and nobody mentioned phones specifically.

Edit: Though there are plenty of linux phones or linux for android phones.

Sadly, there are very few Linux tablets, so we thought we'd give an option.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You quite literally referenced two phone OSes.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Android is not inherently a phone OS, it works on tablets too. Fair about iOS, though it's not unusual for folks to refer to the tablet OS as that, or just use it generally.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like you're just being obtuse on purpose. There are many people, myself included, who would use a Linux phone if the OS was there and you could get one with flagship specs. As it stands, you cannot.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

sighs No, we aren't. We are glad, but honestly we are glad there are linux phones out there, they are easier to search for than linux tablets though.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The pawblem with the existing ones is that they all, as phones, suck.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 points 9 hours ago

Ah, okay, thanks for the info 🙂

[–] SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

How useable is Linux phone compare to Android/iPhone?

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

It isn't.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago

If it's Sailfish OS (Xperias or Jollaphones, updates are paid), apart from apps (hit or miss if it's popular enough, pure miss if it isn't), everything works fine (I guess, I haven't tried it).

If it's anything else, it's still murky.