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Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” (bsky.app)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 143 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I don't understand why society accepted that the hardware maker gets to decide what software you run.

That'd be like your car deciding which roads you can take, or your blender deciding you're not allowed to use strawberries in your smoothie.

Are you nuts? Why the fuck would your phone decide which apps you can run?

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    footnote page 6 “it’s our f***ing store” from Epic v. Apple 2025-04-30 https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Contempt-order.pdf

    Maybe our phones are their f’in phones too

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago*

    Apple welding their phones to their own store, exclusively, is just like paying workers with scrip instead of dollars. This used to be a common practice for capitalists. The scrip is spendable only in the company store.

    We have to stop all such anticompetitive practices.

    Just a reminder, to stop the practice of getting paid in scrip the American workers had to take up arms and shoot some people. Look up Battle of Blair Mountain. It's not like the capitalists stopped the practice just because it was unpopular, lol. Nor did the anticompetitive practice of paying wages in scrip stop because people called their senators and wrote angry letters.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Agreed, too many people defend the App Store monopoly.

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