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benoau 2 days ago

> When Jobs introduced the iPad in 2010, he wasn’t trying to freeze technology in amber.

Well it's 15 years later, their rules have only ever voluntarily-changed to carve out more fees for themselves and the software you're not allowed to use appears to be banned "forever".

His vision was a closed ecosystem with massive fees and no competition, even changes to the laws around the world haven't really disrupted this:

> One can read books bought elsewhere, just not buy/rent/subscribe from iOS without paying us, which we acknowledge is prohibitive for many things.”