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From: https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/10/03/iceblock-blocked/ > Gosh, it’s almost like Apple serving as the exclusive gatekeeper for what software can be installed on the iPhone (and iPad, and Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and Vision Pro) is a bad thing that creates a single point of failure which can be abused by increasingly authoritarian governments. Apple should not be able to decide which apps their customers are a…
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Please direct me to the general computer in a phone form factor that isn't some fiddly Linux gadget. What e-reader doesn't allow side-loading books?
”The 15.18.5 update is also having an adverse reaction to sideloaded books. If you deliver a book using Send by Email or copy it to your computer via USB, a critical issue may arise, where a pop-up appears with an ‘Invalid ASIN‘ number. The new DRM system is attempting to locate the book in the Amazon store to decrypt it, but since it can’t find it, it reports that the book is invalid. Amazon claims they are working…
Google, name your non-vulnerable groups. Could those being taken away be considered a "vulnerable group" or a non-vulnerable group?
This is pure hypocrisy in the wild.
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If phoneposters cared about that, they would buy a general computer. And yes, situation with ebooks is the same.
Please direct me to the general computer in a phone form factor that isn't some fiddly Linux gadget. What e-reader doesn't allow side-loading books?
This madness is straight out of Right to Read [0].
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If phoneposters cared about that, they would buy a general computer. And yes, situation with ebooks is the same.
Please direct me to the general computer in a phone form factor that isn't some fiddly Linux gadget. What e-reader doesn't allow side-loading books?
These restictions will give governments total control over what apps you can run on your phone.
> “removed apps that share the location of what it describes as a vulnerable group after a recent violent act against them connected to this sort of app" Apparently armed, masked thugs covered in body armor dragging people off the street for the federal government count as a "vulnerable group" now?
From: https://onefoottsunami.com/2025/10/03/iceblock-blocked/ > Gosh, it’s almost like Apple serving as the exclusive gatekeeper for what software can be installed on the iPhone (and iPad, and Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and Vision Pro) is a bad thing that creates a single point of failure which can be abused by increasingly authoritarian governments. Apple should not be able to decide which apps their customers are a…
Once again we are back to deriving the DSA/DMA from first principles.
I also haven't heard anything about Europe being excluded from the upcoming Android crackdown, so apparently Google has decided it's DMA compliant. Which makes sense given what Apple is doing.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power" Is a quote often wrongly attributed to Mr. Fascism Benito Mussolini himself, but whoever said it had made a damn good point. Be aware that what you are seeing now fits the exact and precise definition of fascism. It's amusing seeing the US descend so quickly in pure unadulterated fascism and the amount of denial…
I already lost all remaining respect for Tim Cook when he kissed the ring in the oval office. I wonder how Steve Jobs would have handled the current political challenges.