alt Hacker News> why should I not be able to do so on my phone? Why would one computing platform be different from the other?
If Microsoft had its act together PCs would have been just as locked down as phones are today and we wouldn't be questioning a difference.
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repeekad • yesterday at 4:57 PM
I think what you meant to say is if US regulators weren't asleep at the wheel phones would be just as unlocked as PCs.
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HumblyTossed • yesterday at 4:56 PM
What the heck does this defeatist argument have to do with it???
gumby271 • yesterday at 5:01 PM
If [shitty thing] had been normalized years ago, we wouldn't be questioning [shitty thing]'s existence today. I mean, yeah dude.
Microsoft proposed locked-down PCs decades ago and got criticism from sources as mainstream as the New York Times. Everyone more technical than that, with the possible exception of corporate IT types flatly rejected it.
I'm sad there was so much less backlash to restricting user control on phones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/30/business/technology-a-saf...