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If Epic wants to sell you a piece of software to run on your computer, and in order to do so you need to perform special actions (special with regards to all the other software you use on that computer), and you decide that the software is worth it so you perform those special actions, this is somehow a worse scenario than if nothing else changes but you're not able to perform those special actions because the computer doesn't allow you? How is Epic a bad actor? They're selling you a piece of software that (presumably) performs as advertised. If there's a bad actor, I'd think it's the manufacturer of the computer that doesn't let you use it however you prefer.



The point is that my parents have an iPhone because they are idiot proof.

Yes, they had the tool bars in Internet Explorer. Yes they had viruses.

I do not want a situation where I now have to support their phone because they followed some instructions to unlock side loading and installed Bonzai Buddy.

I suggested an alternative, something that would be just a bit too technical for idiots. A switch in iOS will generate support requests to Apple as the average user is an idiot.

> I'd think it's the manufacturer of the computer that doesn't let you use it however you prefer.

Are you this vocal on Sony for not letting you install your own homebrew on a Playstation or Nintendo on the Switch?


I don't use consoles, partly because I can't use them however I like. So, yes.




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