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.
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.
Yeah, neither Android nor iOS is good. We should all be buying linux devices, like this: https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite
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.
How useable is Linux phone compare to Android/iPhone?
How, pray tell, is that a replacement for a phone??
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.
You quite literally referenced two phone OSes.
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.
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.
Are third party iOS app stores available on the US?
No. But we can sideload. Two apps for free, have to be authorized every 7 days. (It’s actually three, but the app that does this for you takes a slot, so that and two others.)
You can also get a developer license for $99/year that lets you do unlimited with a much longer authorization window.
Is it worth it? All things considered? Genuinely asking.
Nothing in Apple’s ecosystem is worth it.
What qualifies for you as “worth it?”
i think you should be asking yourself that?
It was just a snarky comment. Apple does a lot of things well. I just find their anticompetitive practices deplorable.
