Problem is now everyone with iPhones are trying to figure out how to "circumvent" this by shutting off updates, sideloading through some sketchy hack, etc. All so they can pay Apple for music. And what are they going to do when they buy the next iPhone model? Because they will. It's the business model.
When do people have enough and boycott them? Stop funding evil. If you own a device, by all means get your use out of it, but every penny going to Apple is money spent on censorship and control.
They will be forced to allow side loading around here.
And every bit of money spent on Apple products and in their ecosystem still funds their censorship here, in China, everywhere else.
So where do we buy our phones?
Good question, not Apple.
There are plenty of non-Google Android phones available.
And I'm sorry, a US News opinion article on the Google search engine nobody uses unless they don't care about privacy or censorship isn't relevant to this discussion. You can use Android hardware without funding Google, or with just a single hardware purchase if you choose a Pixel. You can't stop funding Apple in their ecosystem. You have no choices.
I see.
Is Google evil? Yes...that's undeniable. But clearly Apple is far more insidious in it's effort to directly control it's users. When there is an iPhone equivalent to a GraphteneOS or the myriad of other options, or at least sidrloading apps is supported Apple-wide I'll feel differently. But this is nothing but pure greed, and they have you guys over a barrel.
