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.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 90 points 1 day ago (14 children)

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.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (13 children)

Yeah, neither Android nor iOS is good. We should all be buying linux devices, like this: https://starlabs.systems/pages/starlite

[–] SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How useable is Linux phone compare to Android/iPhone?

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

If it's Sailfish OS (Xperias or Jollaphones, updates are paid), apart from apps (hit or miss if it's popular enough, pure miss if it isn't), everything works fine (I guess, I haven't tried it).

If it's anything else, it's still murky.

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