Same thing happens in America but if the establishment only serves the “wrong” soda people get mad

We are very tribal about our consumerism

The article directly states that some of these restrictions are for security purposes.

Freedom and security are quintessential partners across many spheres of life and that is indeed the relationship being discussed here

I don’t jailbreak my phone anymore for that exact reason. My personal phone is simply not for playing with anymore. Especially now that it’s connected to financial and confidential information.

There is no perfect security but iOS is by far the best preconfigured option for the ordinary person.

Apart from that the real most important thing is for everyone to always practice basic privacy and security hygiene

Do you verify each custom rom is safe and has no malicious code?

I used to flash roms all the time…it’s really mostly for fun and I don’t have time for that anymore

iOS is safe, secure, and everything works as is and that’s what matters to me and most people in real life

Unless you flash your own Android roms you don’t control your phone neither

And tbh I trust Apple significantly more than phone carriers and android manufacturers when it comes to my device and its software

I have so many old games to play it’s very easy to never again buy anything from Ubisoft or EA

Tho to be fair with my backlog I dont need to buy any games ever again

So why don’t these companies with nation state resources just build power?

Because they’d rather let us pay for it and pocket the difference

It’s that simple

NYT has the most offensive headlines and have lost essentially all their credibility at this point