Thanks for the info! I'll be very shocked if this is the case though. That's a bit like Tesco's telling all the different toothpaste manufacturers that they can't charge more at Tesco's than they do on Amazon. The EU would have been all over this I would have thought.
Apple has more likely a 25% of market share, far from being monopolist.
No. For the DOJ to bring a Sec. 2 Sherman Act violation, they must establish what the relevant geographic market is, which can and has been a single U.S. city, the nation at large, or the entire world. The presumption is the entire market in which the entity does business. If the DOJ wishes to argue for a tighter restriction, they must do so based on factors such as geographic barriers, transportation costs, consumer ability to purchase outside their defined area, etc.
You are incorrect. It’s perfectly legal for a user to install anything they like on the iPhone. You can’t be arrested for jail breaking your iPhone. You will void your warranty and you will no longer be able to get support from Apple if you choose to do this, this is not the same as “illegal”.
It sucks for someone with an iPhone trying to play this game. They can switch to a superior platform such as Android but it's not free. Who's gonna buy a new phone just to play one game?
Android a superior platform ? In which parallel dimension ?
Jail braking, while technically is "Legal", is most surely not the normal way to use your device, so yeah I'm still correct and Apple is still monopoly in the Apple ecosystem. As EU person, soon apple will find this ruled by the court in EU, the same way they found out about charging ports in EU.
(and do your research before trying to guess). Further more, Apple don't even offer their products in my language, not to mention voice recognition and things like that, while android does. Tell me again how their experience is better, when they can't even offer their product in native language.
What a collection of bs you made here...Jail braking, while technically is "Legal", is most surely not the normal way to use your device, so yeah I'm still correct and Apple is still monopoly in the Apple ecosystem. As EU person, soon apple will find this ruled by the court in EU, the same way they found out about charging ports in EU.
They are not way ahead of anyone in the mobile space, the only thing that they are really ahead is the mobile CPU performance and that's it, there isn't a single thing that other smartphones can't do, not a single one. Just name one thing that Apple can do and others can't
Also Apple higher quality is a myth (maybe valid 15 years ago), I guess you don't watch much of a Louis Rossmann YouTube channel, where you can clearly see what dung **** apple actually is in terms of quality.
However, in one thing Apple is the best - Marketing and fan boy-sm, I can't deny, no one can even come close. Also they are innovative company and they create things this is also true. However this company is build to rip off technically illiterate users.
I agree that some users prefer walled gardens and it might be even better for them, however I will ask, where are the power user products from apple? They don't exist, as apple relay on mostly illiterate users who buy their marketing and prestige. Without Steve, apple will slowly decay, just observe.
Every company is a monopoly in the context of their own product. Wrigley has a monopoly on Skittles: you want Skittles, you deal with them. Audi has a monopoly on Audi cars, Adidas a monopoly on their brand of tennis shoes, and Justin Bieber has a monopoly on Justin Bieber tunes (for that I suppose we should all be grateful). Luckily, the legal system defines monopoly in a more sane manner.
Apple just can't stop digging the hole it's in even deeper
No they don't. They only have a monopoly on their IP, but can not limit how their products are used or who's supplying part or providing services to them. For ex. anyone can manufacture replacement or additional parts to Audi cars, without the permission of Audi, if they don't infringe on Audi's IP. Like they can not put an Audi logo on their parts and can't even use the Audi brand name to advertise it. Similarly anyone can service Audi cars, and that even without voiding the warranty on those.
Again, this is false. Apple doesn't restrict you from buying parts or services for your iPhone, or from installing whatever software you wish on it. They simply refuse to aid you in the process. A critical distinction.
Wrong, for at least two reasons. Firstly and most generally, economics has shown us that allowing sellers latitude to produce, sell, and manage their products with the same degree of freedom that buyers have in choosing them is beneficial to all parties. Apple would also argue -- with at least some degree of veracity -- that by restricting the content of apps which appear in their store, their customers receive the additional benefits of security and stability in using their phones.
Yes, you can be arrested for that. That's, because in order to jailbreak the phone you have to circumvent Apple's digital rights protection mechanism, which a crime in itself (see DMCA Sec. 1201). So, no, currently there's no legal way for the average consumer to put apps on their phones other than those explicitly approved by Apple and offered through their App Store.
Since 2018, there has been a specific exemption to jailbreaking in the DMCA. Jailbreaking is fully legal.
No you definitely cannot be arrested for jailbreaking an iPhone.
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iPhones are for power users. They basically humiliate the competition currently. They are faster, they have more apps, better photo and video capability, they are far more secure, they are built better and they get far far longer support. They also carry their value much better than Android phones do. I spend less on my iphones than those who buy Galaxy phones as when it comes to resale they fetch far more. I hugely prefer them to Android currently, it hasn’t always been the case though. I do know a thing or two about phones being a telephony engineer.Jail braking, while technically is "Legal", is most surely not the normal way to use your device, so yeah I'm still correct and Apple is still monopoly in the Apple ecosystem. As EU person, soon apple will find this ruled by the court in EU, the same way they found out about charging ports in EU.
They are not way ahead of anyone in the mobile space, the only thing that they are really ahead is the mobile CPU performance and that's it, there isn't a single thing that other smartphones can't do, not a single one. Just name one thing that Apple can do and others can't
Also Apple higher quality is a myth (maybe valid 15 years ago), I guess you don't watch much of a Louis Rossmann YouTube channel, where you can clearly see what dung **** apple actually is in terms of quality.
However, in one thing Apple is the best - Marketing and fan boy-sm, I can't deny, no one can even come close. Also they are innovative company and they create things this is also true. However this company is build to rip off technically illiterate users.
I agree that some users prefer walled gardens and it might be even better for them, however I will ask, where are the power user products from apple? They don't exist, as apple relay on mostly illiterate users who buy their marketing and prestige. Without Steve, apple will slowly decay, just observe.
You lost me here LOL. Apparently, you have no clue what Power user is. Good day
My previous role at the company I work for involved providing a range of mobile devices and services for all members of corporate clients. I definitely have a better idea of users needs than most and certainly a better idea than you do.You lost me here LOL. Apparently, you have no clue what Power user is. Good day
Yes you can. And the article you linked confirms that. It links to the iOS jailbreaking page on Wikipedia, which explicitly confirms that jailbreaking IS a crime on the grounds I've explained in my previous comment, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, etc. If you post a link, at least bother to read it first!
The Wikipedia article says no such thing. Did you even read it? Unless you're jailbreaking a phone specifically for the purpose of copyright infringement, it's fully legal.
In 2019 Apple patched 185 CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) in iPhones, an increase from 120 during the same timeframe last year. Some 62% of the CVEs were considered "critical" security risks, while 25% were considered moderate risk, and 13% were considered low risk.
IT DOES. Read it, damn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#Legality
No, it's not, because - as already explained - the pre-requisite for any jailbreak is the circumvention of Apple's DRM system, which by itself is a crime and the violation of the laws listed in the linked Wikipedia article. Also, modifying a software, reverse engineering a software or copying a software, without the permission of the author is considered a copyright crime in most jurisdictions, which again, make it illegal to for ex. create, distribute and run modified versions of operating system / firmware software, even if other laws are not broken. Like you could run a free operating system on a jailbroken phone, but not a modified version of the original proprietary OS, because that, again, is a copyright violation on its own, which btw also voids all exemptions that might allow you to do something as long as it's not also a copyright violation.
