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[–] 114 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I still feel like it should be illegal for the button to say "Buy" or "Purchase" when you're actually leasing the item.

There should be a nice, big, summarized disclaimer right above the button explaining what exactly you are purchasing. I'm sure the 100 page EULA explains but nobody has time to read through the whole thing every time they make a digital purchase.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Been saying it since I popped out the womb, I'm so happy to see more people share this sentiment. It doesn't matter that changing the definition of "buy" is legal when they put a tiny little link to a 30 page document above the big green "purchase" button. The fact that that's legal is the whole problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's basically how iPhones have worked from the start. You're paying all that money to lease the phone. Apple can do as it pleases or ban you from using your purchased phone for whatever infraction they want. You are paying all that money but you don't own it, Apple does. That's why I've never and will never own one

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    Unfortunately, that applies to way more than just Apple products. You can't unlock the bootloader on many modern Android phones sold in the US, and you can't replace the primary bootloader on any phone (with very few exceptions), anywhere, due to the hardware implementation of secure boot, which requires the bootloader to be cryptographically signed by the owner of the keys (the vendor).

    There is no option to replace the keys with your own in the device that you purchased and "own".

    Don't even get me started on Smart TVs and other IoT devices. All of a sudden, people don't care about computer freedom as much if you just stop calling it a computer.

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