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Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

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codedokode ◴[12 Dec 25 17:38 UTC] No.46246465[source]▶
In my opinion, every manufacturer of a programmable device should not be allowed to prevent the buyer from reprogramming it.
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tomp ◴[12 Dec 25 23:18 UTC] No.46250233[source]▶
Well, your opinion is literally illegal.

You're legally (and technically) prohibited from re-programming GPS modules, GSM modules, and probably many stuff in cars as well.

(Actually, maybe contractually when it comes to GPS modules.)

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loloquwowndueo ◴[12 Dec 25 23:21 UTC] No.46250260[source]▶
He is saying that it should not be illegal to do so.
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simonask ◴[12 Dec 25 23:30 UTC] No.46250341[source]▶
And they are saying that it already is, naming a few examples of things that really need to be illegal to reprogram.

GPS et al would be non-functional if everybody could make a jammer.

(That’s not to say that app stores fall even remotely in that category.)

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1. Fabricio20 ◴[12 Dec 25 23:57 UTC] No.46250523[source]▶
How does being able to reprogram a GPS device make it into a jammer any more efficiently than grabbing three pieces of coal and running a few amps thru it? Or hell just buying an SDR on aliexpress!

The only reason it's "illegal" is because they were thinking people would use it to make missiles easily - but that's already the case even with non-reprogrammable gps. And in big 2025 you can also just use drones with bombs attached to it.