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> actually quite common within contracts generally

Really?

> What's wrong with Apple insisting that developers not jailbreak their devices?

It's my device and I have the freedom to do with it as I wish. EFF goes into a lot more detail if you want to read it.

> What's wrong with Apple approving their own security updates?

It's not their own security updates, it's security updates to other people's apps.

> we can debate about the morality of DRM

This is about the fact that developers are forced into shipping it even if they don't want it.

> If you don't agree with it, don't bang free speech drums and shout yourself hoarse about "rights." Just don't sign it.

I won't sign it, and and I will sign a petition, and I will warn other developers about it. It's my right to point out bad behaviour and to complain. You presumably accept this since you just posted a comment complaining about something.

Developers aren't forced to develop for Apple products. They aren't forced to do anything

s/forced/contractually obliged/g

It always surprises me when people say this. If somebody forced all fishermen to only sail in circles, catch fish with their tongues and drink a liter of sulfuric acid every morning - they would be up in arms. Sure they're not forced to be fishermen, but you can't blame them for caring.

Well but the key word there is "somebody." If there was a single, all-encompassing, global world government that forced all fishermen to do this, then yes, we'd have a problem. If the United States (for example) caused its fishermen to do this, then the people of the United States would be well-advised to change this law, else they'll soon be out of fish. But even if they didn't, it's still not a question of "forcing" or "rights." Fishermen would simply fish elsewhere; at great cost, perhaps, with a loss of opportunity, no doubt, but it's still a question of choice.

Problems do not require agents to create them. A problem can exist without someone to blame.

Well you can't go anywhere else and be an ios developer. Maybe you could learn something else and bring some of your customers with you, but it certainly is harder than just going somewhere else to fish.

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