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I see no moral issue with government regulation to make our lives better.

People would still buy cars if seatbelts weren't a standard feature. They'd still by deodorant if it put holes in the ozone.

Vote with their money only works if companies make a product you can buy. Where's the iPhone "unlocked edition" that costs $20 more that I can buy? They don't make it.

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$appliancevendorname also doesn’t make +$20 programmable washers. Arguments like this only appear when there’s an urge for an argument. Just buy an unlocked android phone, they exist with similar or better hw for $500 less.

Technically there is no Android phone which has a better CPU/GPU than the latest iPhones. Not that it matters too much nowadays...

iPhones are behind on including ray tracing acceleration in their soc.

I mean, even desktops can barely do raytracing so I wouldn't hold my breath on phone SoCs being able to do it competently for a while. Also, afaik there is no high-profile game that uses the RT cores on newer Snapdragons.

The damage the App Store causes is far, far wider than iOS users. The entire online ecosystem is shaped by app store censorship - we've seen again and again massive sites actively discrimate against kink, BDSM and queer communities because Apple requires to do so, and building different moderation for different end user devices is effectively impossible at scale.

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