Depends on what your definition of winning is. If we reach a state where it is literally impossible to run your own software without heavy hardware modification, which would exclude 99.9% of users, that would be like big tech winning in my book. That’s why right to repair is important, and we probably also need laws to prevent OEMs from disallowing the use of alternate OS.
I must be missing something here. Can we not just use the web version of the bank interface insteadvof an app? It still works for my banking, and I don’t even have the app. I just have to put my browser into desktop mode.
Many things need an app. I have to use a government one for work, there is no website for it. It’s locked down and will not work on a rooted phone. That’s what I mean.
Big tech can’t win because you can’t force the internet to do something.
Depends on what your definition of winning is. If we reach a state where it is literally impossible to run your own software without heavy hardware modification, which would exclude 99.9% of users, that would be like big tech winning in my book. That’s why right to repair is important, and we probably also need laws to prevent OEMs from disallowing the use of alternate OS.
They don’t need to make us do anything. They just need to make it too inconvenient not to.
They already are? Big tech controls the internet at this point.
Gilmore’s quote was true then, it is not the current state of play.
If you need to use banking/government/transit apps, you need to play by the rules now
I must be missing something here. Can we not just use the web version of the bank interface insteadvof an app? It still works for my banking, and I don’t even have the app. I just have to put my browser into desktop mode.
Yep but somehow apps have become the standard I guess.
Apps are not the internet.
Many things need an app. I have to use a government one for work, there is no website for it. It’s locked down and will not work on a rooted phone. That’s what I mean.
You can hide root/fake play integrity.
They can make it extremely harder to do that.
i think we are already at this point.
its not necessarily harder, but its so annoying to do and find comprehensive information on the process.