Comment by tsylba

I find it quite interesting that peoples talking on a website called "hacker news" find it fine that a company selling you an OS make it harder for you to install app not approved by them, notably so when there is enough scare screens as of now to discourage any too gullible peoples to do so.

What would we think if Microsoft decided all of a sudden to do something similar with Windows? How there is no outrage about this in that community?

Like the boiled crab in the chef's cuisine, we slowly accept the rising temperature around us as totally fine and normal.

Somewhat relevant article about the demise of a culture: https://aeon.co/essays/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacke...