Cory Doctorow
1 min readJun 18, 2022

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Well at least it's clear what we're discussing now: it's not that you don't want third-party app stores - you want other people to be deprived of that choice, despite the fact that someone else making a choice other than the one you've opted for will in no way force you to make that same choice.

This is Jobsean "you're holding it wrong" cult nonsense taken to its most absurd conclusion.

The idea that an Apple customer who wants to use third party apps is the wrong kind of Apple customer who shouldn't be able to enjoy their personal property in the way they prefer, and cannot be said to reflect the views of bona fide Apple customers - it's "no true Scotsman" with rounded corners.

No trillion-dollar, tax-dodging, slave-employing, backdooring-for-the-Chinese-state company will ever love you back as much as you love it, but nevertheless, I will continue to fight for your right - and the rights of anyone who owns any device, from any manufacturer - to decide for yourself whose software you trust.

The fact that you can't discuss this without being gratuitously insulting - repeatedly, now - makes it clear that there's no point in trying to reason you out of a view you haven't reasoned your way into.

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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