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stinky613 | 4 years ago

> The iPhone is an instruction-executing machine. That's what people buy.

That's not what people buy; that's the hardware they receive as part of their purchase.

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Unless you are entering into a contract with a mobile career, that is the only thing you purchase. If you want to get into metaphorical lines of speech about how you buy into an ecosystem and all that, go ahead. But the legal reallity is that when buying an iPhone, you buy an iPhone, and it's yours. Same as any other standard purchase for any physical good.

stinky613|4 years ago

On yeah? So how do people run iOS apps on instruction-executing machines that weren't made by Apple?