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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 3 comments | 13 Aug 20 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Findeton ◴[13 Aug 20 20:11 UTC] No.24148096[source]▶
I don't think this should be regulated at all. Apple should be able to impose their rules in their systems. Let's be clear about this, if people are choosing to buy these black-box closed handheld computing devices, there are consequences that come with that choice.
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swiley ◴[13 Aug 20 20:29 UTC] No.24148471[source]▶
Apple is more than welcome to put whatever rules they want on their systems. My phone is not their system though, it’s mine! If I want to run tmux/fetchmail/ocamlc on it then it’s my problem not theirs!
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Findeton ◴[13 Aug 20 20:38 UTC] No.24148658[source]▶
I'm sure if you install some version of Linux in your iPhone you can do whatever you want. But you're probably using iOS.
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1. leadingthenet ◴[13 Aug 20 20:47 UTC] No.24148821[source]▶
They don’t really give you the option of installing Linux on the iPhone tho, do they?
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2. Spivak ◴[13 Aug 20 21:24 UTC] No.24149478[source]▶
This is pretty much the whole legal theory of locked-down devices. Since you own them you're free to whatever you like to the hardware including breaking any locks preventing you from running your own software on them. But the vendor has no obligation to help, or support you in doing this.

This is pretty much the whole reason the GPLv3 exists.

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3. erklik ◴[14 Aug 20 01:09 UTC] No.24152015[source]▶
> But the vendor has no obligation to help, or support you in doing this.

No obligation to help vs actively hindering are not really the same thing.