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There's a part of me that really wants to know just how many people actually care about this.

When I was a teenager I was really into the rooting/jailbreaking concept. It was cool at the time, when the iPhone didn't have copy/paste, but I'm past that phase now and don't see a need for it.

Does sideloading really benefit the end user? The article seems to think it favors only other corporations.

I can forsee a future where my iPhone will have the Apple app store, a Spotify app store, a Netflix app store, an Amazon app store... doesn't this sound a lot like what's happened to streaming services? As an end user, I don't want this.

Will apple enforce having an offering on their app store if Spotify wants to offer their own alternative to bypass the 30% cut? or will Spotify remove their listing from Apple's store, and make my life, the end-users's life, more difficult?

I'm neither an artist or a software dev, but I do work in tech - here's my perspective:

A piece of art created by an artist will likely be posted publicly, where it can be used as part of a training set for an AI art program. This has come up in news articles, I read on recently where an artist's work was used without her consent, and the AI proceeded to produce almost identical images.

A piece of code written by a software developer will likely only be posted publicly if it is open source, so the probability of an AI code program being trained on closed-source code is slim to none. Obviously there are issues surrounding attribution, and I've seen evidence of copilot spitting out some open source code verbatim, bar the license or any attribution.

I think the more open, sharing nature of coders, especially those in the open source space, is what has led to AI code being more accepted than AI art, where artists are far more concerned about protecting their intellectual property.

I very much think this is the correct take, a few comments in this thread seem to come from users who are a bit too deeply embedded in the tech world, and can't see this perspective.

I don't think this is the case at all, my brother and I are at opposite ends of the GenZ age scale and we both had full-on computer labs in school, winxp/7 for myself and win8/10 for him. We didn't go to posh, expensive schools either.

I think this comment parallels the same attitude that older generations take about tech issues in the linked article, where they don't feel shame for having 'poor' computer skills since they didn't grow up with it.