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Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading (9to5mac.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Japan prepares regulation requiring Apple to allow sideloading::As the Digital Markets Act antitrust law passed in the European Union, Apple has until March 2024 to let users...

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah Android is Linux. But Manufactures are limiting it so hard that it is sometimes nearly impossible to get a custom ROM on the phone.

[–] w2tpmf 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. The openess of the operating system is meaningless if the phone's firmware isn't open.

[–] giggling_engine 8 points 11 months ago

It's open source so that anyone can manufacture a phone for it (good for business), not so you could install whatever you want on the hardware (bad for business)...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah but unfortunately with Android it's what Google wants and not what the end-user wants. That's why Linux itself is very important, the user gets to decide what they want to do with it.