Discussing with someone who's so deluded he thinks the XDA developers forum is a good place to get ROMs is meaningless anyway.
I defer to your superior knowledge on that subject!
I assume there are perfectly conscientious makers of Custom AOSP builds, and that some of them might even have good enough compatibility for a few handsets to make it tempting to load them; but even without the Trojan factor, there still are significant compatibility problems with enough Devices that it seems dangerous to mess with unofficial ROMS.
If this is such a non-issue, then why have there been hundreds, if not thousands, of posts by frustrated Android users, and dozens of articles ( including the one you and I are posting under), that say differently?
Because there are so many more Android users than iOS users, and because they are less willing to give Google a free pass than iOS users are Apple.
Boy, anyone who has hung around Mac-oriented Forums knows what a larf-riot THAT comment is! Apple Users are some of the pickiest mofos you'll EVER see!
But even after that completely reasonable length of OFFICIAL support, those few that are still rockin' that "antique" kit are free to Jailbreak their iOS devices, and take their chances with "Custom ROMS" from sources like Cydia.
Cydia offers an alternate app store, not iOS updates. It's equivalent to rooting, not to reflashing.
Meh, I will admit I never was interested enough to really know what Cydia was, and wasn't.
Almost ALL Android Devices are "Abandoned" on the day you buy them;
Literally the only Android device I've got which got no updates is the Sony Xperia Play. I learned my lesson, and Sony can DIAF. (They explicitly promised ICS for it, but never delivered.) Every other device I've got has had at least two substantial upgrades, or will be getting them. TF201 got two. Moto G had one, is getting another. Nexus 4, not a problem. My crappy MK908 TV stick had two updates. All of these devices got at least a couple of years of support.
If this is such a non-issue, then why have there been hundreds, if not thousands, of posts by frustrated Android users, and dozens of articles ( including the one you and I are posting under), that say differently?
YOU brought up length-of-OFFICIAL-Support. you lose.
You don't even understand the argument, iFanboy. The argument is that once official support is over, your iDevice is garbage. At least there's a chance that someone will support your Android device. Now go throw your old Apple devices in the landfill and shut the fuck up.
Well, at the expense of possibly making part of your argument for you, even after Apple ends Official support for a particular Device, which is almost always long after that device is pretty-much completely out-of-circulation, you aren't screwed. For example, Apple produced iOS 5.1.1 in May, 2012, which was compatible clear back to the first iPad, and the iPod Touch, 3rd Gen, iOS 6.1.6 in February, 2014, which was compatible with the iPhone 3GS, and the iPod Touch 4th Generation, and iOS 7.1.2 in June, 2014, which supported iPhone 4 (with a separate release of TVOS that worked with 2nd gen AppleTV). Anything newer is fully supported up through the present iOS 9.0.2.
But even after that completely reasonable length of OFFICIAL support, those few that are still rockin' that "antique" kit are free to Jailbreak their iOS devices, and take their chances with "Custom ROMS" from sources like Cydia.
I don't endorse that, because it opens a User (and their data) up to the same things I was arguing against for Android; but it does somewhat negate your argument, et that, once IOS Devices are EOLed, they should IMMEDIATELY be "Landfilled".
4. Suggested Solution is to remain on said Platform, and purposely and permanently break Device's bootloader's security in order to install random, unsupported, un-vetted "Custom ROM" from the Internet.
Who's gonna steal your antique phone?
WTF are you even talking about?
Given that the Custom ROM could very well be a Trojan itself, doesn't this cycle seem like the "cure" could be just another disease?
You don't think anyone would notice? I do.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on a bunch of factors, not the least of which is the User's ability to look in the right place, get the download from the right place, etc. Far too many variables for something so critical.
And even if that isn't the case for a particular iteration, doesn't the next vulnerability simply end you up at Step 1, above, but simply with the "Custom ROM" instead of the OEM ROM?
Nothing is supported forever. When Apple drops an iDevice, you're just fucked. When an Android device is dropped, at least there's hope.
Ah, but that's the difference that makes ALL the difference: Almost ALL Android Devices are "Abandoned" on the day you buy them; but almost ALL, if not ALL, Apple Devices are supported for two years or more; by which time, most users are shopping for an Upgrade anyway.
YOU brought up length-of-OFFICIAL-Support. you lose.
The last day to buy a brand-new iPhone 3G from Apple was June 2010. The last iOS update was November 2010. 6-months of support, for those who bought them near the end of the run. Brand new phones, sold as the *only* iPhone available at the time, so I bought the newest, best available, and got about 6 months support on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
My Samsung got very little support. I didn't get a single version upgrade on it, and there were maybe two bug fix patches.
What does get support is rooting Android and using a generic package. Though that option isn't available for iPhone, so you are left with phones abandoned the moment they aren't sold anymore.
Your particular iPhone 3G situation is an admitted Outlier. However, unless you are a total liar, you will have to admit that Apple's OS Update support for both iOS AND OS X is second to none.
The current, just-released version of iOS, 9.0.1, is compatible with iPhone 4s to 6s, iPad 2 to iPad Pro, and iPod Touch 5 and 6. OS X 10.11, El Capitan, also just released, is compatible with almost all Macs introduced since 2007.
And if you compare that sort of support with the Russian Roulette style of "Updating through Random ROMS" you are advocating for Android, you are either a liar or are delusional.
What kind of dumbass company is going to spend money porting a new version of an OS to an old platform, with no payday for doing so?
Mobile phone vendors make their money selling new phones. You want a new Android, get a new phone. Your contract will be up in 2 years, and at 18 months, you will be offered a new phone with early renewal, so just wait until the contract is up, re-up the contract, and get the new phone with the fix.
When you buy an iOS product you are buying from a company determined to make it obsolete within a year or two of you buying it.
Can't talk about phones, but my girlfriend's iPad had been out for a year or two when I bought it for her a couple of years ago, and it's still getting the latest iOS releases. I believe only the original iPad has been made obsolete by Apple so far.
Meanwhile, the local electronics store is still selling the Nexus 7, which probably gets its last OS upgrade from Google next week.
If Google don't fix this crap, they're going to toss the cheap phone/tablet market to Microsoft.
Or to Apple, which now sells the still-supported iPad mini 2 and iPhone 5 for relatively low prices.
And yes, the original iPad is the only unsupported iPad, as I sit here typing this in my still-supported iPad 2, and my still-supported iPhone 4s sits waiting for me to "re commission" it as for iPod Touch-like duty (not going to use the phone part anymore) for my roomate's use.
Android phones are not driven in obsolescence by a team at Apple who urges developers to move onto the new API as soon as possible. So the App Store doesn't stop having current apps for Android phones for much, much longer than with Apple. Look at the number of current-version apps you can still get to run on a KitKat phone, and compare that to the apps you can get for a 3G iOS device today.
When you buy an iOS product you are buying from a company determined to make it obsolete within a year or two of you buying it.
Another of your bullshit half-truths, as usual.
One of Apple's Terms and Conditions for entering the IOS App Store is that your App MUST SUPPORT the most recent version of iOS.
Another of the T&C for an App to REMAIN in the iOS App Store is that your App must be UPDATED in a timely manner TO SUPPORT the latest version of iOS.
NOWHERE does Apple MANDATE that an App MUST NOT remain Compatible with an OLDER Version of iOS.
Prove me wrong.
In fact, one of the reasons that there is an issue with iOS "App Balooning" is that, as time goes on, Apps are having to carry a greater and greater amount of "baggage", just to support multiple device configurations and OS versions.
Of course, iOS isn't either, and MS burned all bridges with Windows 10, so fuck it, I'm not buying any shit from you assholes anymore.
There are many reasons why iOS shouldn't be recommended, but one thing that Apple actually should have some cred for is that they provide updates for fairly old devices. As far as I know Apple still supports the current version of iOS on devices as far back as iPhone 4s (released in 2011). That's quite remarkable to even have two years of supported updates in the Android world.
And on the Tablet side of things, Apple has continuously supported the iPad back to the iPad 2 (2011), too, up through the present, even doing updates specifically designed to improve performance under a newer version of iOS.
OK, here is your short short short form of how to change your ROM.
OMG, I feel like I' m taking Crazy Pills!
Let me get this straight: (And this is to all of those who are advocating "Custom ROMS"):
1. There is a Security Vulnerability in the "stock ROM" of some Device.
2. OEM abandons said device.
3. Device is on a platform with a longstanding and nearly Universal practice of doing exactly this same thing, time and again.
4. Suggested Solution is to remain on said Platform, and purposely and permanently break Device's bootloader's security in order to install random, unsupported, un-vetted "Custom ROM" from the Internet.
Given that the Custom ROM could very well be a Trojan itself, doesn't this cycle seem like the "cure" could be just another disease?
And even if that isn't the case for a particular iteration, doesn't the next vulnerability simply end you up at Step 1, above, but simply with the "Custom ROM" instead of the OEM ROM?
Users that lack the ability to change the software themselves can of course ask someone else to do it for them, either for free or for compensation. This is not at all the case with proprietary software. The vendor may of course choose to change the software for you but you have no such guarantees. Microsoft is not going to make fundamental changes to Windows or most of their other products if you ask them. With free software you are not locked in to the original vendor, you can ask anyone else to do changes for you.
Really? I never would have guessed that! [/sarcasm]
My point was, and I'm pretty sure you knew what I meant, that for MOST people (i.e., those who can't code), Open Source software might as well be Closed Source, for all the good it does them to have the Source available.
Oh, and I know you won't believe this; but a majority of that majority of MOST people really DON'T know where they would even START to look for someone who could code, seriously.
I understand (and appreciate and even applaud) the PROMISE of Open Source (afterall, where would OS X be without its included F/OSS Projects?); but for most people it really IS just a(n Unrealizable) Promise.
Apparently with strings (NDA) attached? Or are you saying the NDA from their original developer relationship prevented this? Both of these seem a bit sketchy to me.
While I am all for being able to do anything to my personal devices, I believe they did a tear down on a Development kit of the Apple TV which they distributed to app creators. I'm sure there was a clause regarding tear down and app removal.
Did you RTFA to see that the AppleTV they took apart was one that Apple lent them?
You keep saying that. The article never said anything about a lent item. They do not have to give it back. They did have to pay for it. A dollar. But a sale is a sale.
The same reason Microsoft was prosecuted for milder behavior than anything Apple has done. Market share. Anti-trust laws are only applied to market leaders, and Android is the mobile OS on most phones out there.
So long as Apple has the sense to be a 20-30% niche and knows how to keep that level of demand, they can get away with any monopolistic behavior for their niche.
Excuse me; but "niche" and "monopolistic behavior" are mathematically, legally, and practically, mutually exclusive.
I don't understand why an "informational" website would be done as an iOS app instead. Why give Apple that level of control over yourself? Just make a regular website, and then they can't pull the plug on your content!
An app should be for extremely interactive content only.
1. They didn't stop iFixit from disseminating their information by pulling the App for the iOS App Store. There is both an Android version of the App, as well as their regular website.
As to why an App, I have never used it myself; but having tried to use the iFixit website on a tablet while replacing the Trackpad in a friend's MacBook Pro, perhaps the App was a little better formatted for use on a tablet than the website.
Apple is the most vile tech company in existence and has been so since the Apple I.
Um, you do realize, of course, that it is well known that Steve Wozniak gave away schematics, parts lists and code for what was the Apple 1, to anyone interested at the Home Brew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
Only corporations can have rights. People don't have rights. They only are allowed to do what our corporate masters tell us we can do.
You are a true retard.
People certainly have rights; but they can voluntarily abrogate those rights through an Agreement.
IFixit did exactly that when they both signed their Developer Agreement, which has a provision restricting the dissemination of Trade Secrets in relation to the receipt of Pre-Release materials. And if that wasn't enough, there is no doubt that they agreed to not post pictures, a review, etc. of their Pre-Release AppleTV in exchange for Apple selling them a Pre-Release AppleTV for $1.00.
This isn't about "small electronics". It's about streamers and content. And yes, having their own vertically integrated platform does make them ripe for an anti-trust inquiry. The same goes for Apple too.
There's no reason to lick their boots, either of them.
Sigh.
Yet another Slashtard that is mind-numbingly ignorant if how law REALLY works.
Amazon is free to produce their own app for Chromecast or Apple TV. This is probably more an issue where they want to push people into buying their own devices instead of Apple or Android devices.
Furthermore, Amazon does not have a fundamental right to refuse to sell anything it wants. Certain refusals similar to this one are outlawed (see here). According to the FTC's website there, if a company is refusing to provide a product in a strategy to acquire or maintain a monopoly, then it's illegal. I don't know whether this applies in this case (IANAL), but it certainly is a practice that harms consumers, and therefore should be outlawed.
You don't have to but an AppleTV or Chromecast from Amazon, nor do they have a "Monopoly" on streaming devices nor streaming services.
IANAL but this sounds douchebaggish; but IMHO, it falls far short of either COI or Monoplistic behavior.
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Discussing with someone who's so deluded he thinks the XDA developers forum is a good place to get ROMs is meaningless anyway.
I defer to your superior knowledge on that subject!
I assume there are perfectly conscientious makers of Custom AOSP builds, and that some of them might even have good enough compatibility for a few handsets to make it tempting to load them; but even without the Trojan factor, there still are significant compatibility problems with enough Devices that it seems dangerous to mess with unofficial ROMS.
If this is such a non-issue, then why have there been hundreds, if not thousands, of posts by frustrated Android users, and dozens of articles ( including the one you and I are posting under), that say differently?
Because there are so many more Android users than iOS users, and because they are less willing to give Google a free pass than iOS users are Apple.
Boy, anyone who has hung around Mac-oriented Forums knows what a larf-riot THAT comment is! Apple Users are some of the pickiest mofos you'll EVER see!
But even after that completely reasonable length of OFFICIAL support, those few that are still rockin' that "antique" kit are free to Jailbreak their iOS devices, and take their chances with "Custom ROMS" from sources like Cydia.
Cydia offers an alternate app store, not iOS updates. It's equivalent to rooting, not to reflashing.
Meh, I will admit I never was interested enough to really know what Cydia was, and wasn't.
Almost ALL Android Devices are "Abandoned" on the day you buy them;
Literally the only Android device I've got which got no updates is the Sony Xperia Play. I learned my lesson, and Sony can DIAF. (They explicitly promised ICS for it, but never delivered.) Every other device I've got has had at least two substantial upgrades, or will be getting them. TF201 got two. Moto G had one, is getting another. Nexus 4, not a problem. My crappy MK908 TV stick had two updates. All of these devices got at least a couple of years of support.
If this is such a non-issue, then why have there been hundreds, if not thousands, of posts by frustrated Android users, and dozens of articles ( including the one you and I are posting under), that say differently?
YOU brought up length-of-OFFICIAL-Support. you lose.
You don't even understand the argument, iFanboy. The argument is that once official support is over, your iDevice is garbage. At least there's a chance that someone will support your Android device. Now go throw your old Apple devices in the landfill and shut the fuck up.
Well, at the expense of possibly making part of your argument for you, even after Apple ends Official support for a particular Device, which is almost always long after that device is pretty-much completely out-of-circulation, you aren't screwed. For example, Apple produced iOS 5.1.1 in May, 2012, which was compatible clear back to the first iPad, and the iPod Touch, 3rd Gen, iOS 6.1.6 in February, 2014, which was compatible with the iPhone 3GS, and the iPod Touch 4th Generation, and iOS 7.1.2 in June, 2014, which supported iPhone 4 (with a separate release of TVOS that worked with 2nd gen AppleTV). Anything newer is fully supported up through the present iOS 9.0.2.
But even after that completely reasonable length of OFFICIAL support, those few that are still rockin' that "antique" kit are free to Jailbreak their iOS devices, and take their chances with "Custom ROMS" from sources like Cydia.
I don't endorse that, because it opens a User (and their data) up to the same things I was arguing against for Android; but it does somewhat negate your argument, et that, once IOS Devices are EOLed, they should IMMEDIATELY be "Landfilled".
4. Suggested Solution is to remain on said Platform, and purposely and permanently break Device's bootloader's security in order to install random, unsupported, un-vetted "Custom ROM" from the Internet.
Who's gonna steal your antique phone?
WTF are you even talking about?
Given that the Custom ROM could very well be a Trojan itself, doesn't this cycle seem like the "cure" could be just another disease?
You don't think anyone would notice? I do.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on a bunch of factors, not the least of which is the User's ability to look in the right place, get the download from the right place, etc. Far too many variables for something so critical.
And even if that isn't the case for a particular iteration, doesn't the next vulnerability simply end you up at Step 1, above, but simply with the "Custom ROM" instead of the OEM ROM?
Nothing is supported forever. When Apple drops an iDevice, you're just fucked. When an Android device is dropped, at least there's hope.
Ah, but that's the difference that makes ALL the difference: Almost ALL Android Devices are "Abandoned" on the day you buy them; but almost ALL, if not ALL, Apple Devices are supported for two years or more; by which time, most users are shopping for an Upgrade anyway.
YOU brought up length-of-OFFICIAL-Support. you lose.
The last day to buy a brand-new iPhone 3G from Apple was June 2010. The last iOS update was November 2010. 6-months of support, for those who bought them near the end of the run. Brand new phones, sold as the *only* iPhone available at the time, so I bought the newest, best available, and got about 6 months support on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... My Samsung got very little support. I didn't get a single version upgrade on it, and there were maybe two bug fix patches. What does get support is rooting Android and using a generic package. Though that option isn't available for iPhone, so you are left with phones abandoned the moment they aren't sold anymore.
Your particular iPhone 3G situation is an admitted Outlier. However, unless you are a total liar, you will have to admit that Apple's OS Update support for both iOS AND OS X is second to none.
The current, just-released version of iOS, 9.0.1, is compatible with iPhone 4s to 6s, iPad 2 to iPad Pro, and iPod Touch 5 and 6. OS X 10.11, El Capitan, also just released, is compatible with almost all Macs introduced since 2007.
And if you compare that sort of support with the Russian Roulette style of "Updating through Random ROMS" you are advocating for Android, you are either a liar or are delusional.
What kind of dumbass company is going to spend money porting a new version of an OS to an old platform, with no payday for doing so?
Mobile phone vendors make their money selling new phones. You want a new Android, get a new phone. Your contract will be up in 2 years, and at 18 months, you will be offered a new phone with early renewal, so just wait until the contract is up, re-up the contract, and get the new phone with the fix.
KTHX BAI.
Why, as shown by this chart, that most evil of evil companies (according to many Slashdotters), that's who!
When you buy an iOS product you are buying from a company determined to make it obsolete within a year or two of you buying it.
Can't talk about phones, but my girlfriend's iPad had been out for a year or two when I bought it for her a couple of years ago, and it's still getting the latest iOS releases. I believe only the original iPad has been made obsolete by Apple so far.
Meanwhile, the local electronics store is still selling the Nexus 7, which probably gets its last OS upgrade from Google next week.
If Google don't fix this crap, they're going to toss the cheap phone/tablet market to Microsoft.
Or to Apple, which now sells the still-supported iPad mini 2 and iPhone 5 for relatively low prices.
And yes, the original iPad is the only unsupported iPad, as I sit here typing this in my still-supported iPad 2, and my still-supported iPhone 4s sits waiting for me to "re commission" it as for iPod Touch-like duty (not going to use the phone part anymore) for my roomate's use.
Android phones are not driven in obsolescence by a team at Apple who urges developers to move onto the new API as soon as possible. So the App Store doesn't stop having current apps for Android phones for much, much longer than with Apple. Look at the number of current-version apps you can still get to run on a KitKat phone, and compare that to the apps you can get for a 3G iOS device today.
When you buy an iOS product you are buying from a company determined to make it obsolete within a year or two of you buying it.
Another of your bullshit half-truths, as usual.
.
One of Apple's Terms and Conditions for entering the IOS App Store is that your App MUST SUPPORT the most recent version of iOS.
Another of the T&C for an App to REMAIN in the iOS App Store is that your App must be UPDATED in a timely manner TO SUPPORT the latest version of iOS.
NOWHERE does Apple MANDATE that an App MUST NOT remain Compatible with an OLDER Version of iOS
Prove me wrong.
In fact, one of the reasons that there is an issue with iOS "App Balooning" is that, as time goes on, Apps are having to carry a greater and greater amount of "baggage", just to support multiple device configurations and OS versions.
Of course, iOS isn't either, and MS burned all bridges with Windows 10, so fuck it, I'm not buying any shit from you assholes anymore.
There are many reasons why iOS shouldn't be recommended, but one thing that Apple actually should have some cred for is that they provide updates for fairly old devices. As far as I know Apple still supports the current version of iOS on devices as far back as iPhone 4s (released in 2011). That's quite remarkable to even have two years of supported updates in the Android world.
And on the Tablet side of things, Apple has continuously supported the iPad back to the iPad 2 (2011), too, up through the present, even doing updates specifically designed to improve performance under a newer version of iOS.
OK, here is your short short short form of how to change your ROM.
OMG, I feel like I' m taking Crazy Pills!
:
Let me get this straight: (And this is to all of those who are advocating "Custom ROMS")
1. There is a Security Vulnerability in the "stock ROM" of some Device.
2. OEM abandons said device.
3. Device is on a platform with a longstanding and nearly Universal practice of doing exactly this same thing, time and again.
4. Suggested Solution is to remain on said Platform, and purposely and permanently break Device's bootloader's security in order to install random, unsupported, un-vetted "Custom ROM" from the Internet.
Given that the Custom ROM could very well be a Trojan itself, doesn't this cycle seem like the "cure" could be just another disease?
And even if that isn't the case for a particular iteration, doesn't the next vulnerability simply end you up at Step 1, above, but simply with the "Custom ROM" instead of the OEM ROM?
Users that lack the ability to change the software themselves can of course ask someone else to do it for them, either for free or for compensation. This is not at all the case with proprietary software. The vendor may of course choose to change the software for you but you have no such guarantees. Microsoft is not going to make fundamental changes to Windows or most of their other products if you ask them. With free software you are not locked in to the original vendor, you can ask anyone else to do changes for you.
Really? I never would have guessed that! [/sarcasm]
My point was, and I'm pretty sure you knew what I meant, that for MOST people (i.e., those who can't code), Open Source software might as well be Closed Source, for all the good it does them to have the Source available.
Oh, and I know you won't believe this; but a majority of that majority of MOST people really DON'T know where they would even START to look for someone who could code, seriously.
I understand (and appreciate and even applaud) the PROMISE of Open Source (afterall, where would OS X be without its included F/OSS Projects?); but for most people it really IS just a(n Unrealizable) Promise.
Users are free because they have access to the source code, have the freedom to learn from it, change it and/or pass it along.
You mean the freedom to pay someone else to do it, as was suggested above in this Post . Sounds like a lot of Proprietary packages to me.
Using GPLv3 will all but ensure no corporate/enterprise support, thus leaving the older, less useful formats in place.
Sometimes zealots get in their own way...
You beat me to it. I was coming here to post exactly that.
Does violating Apple, in any way, automatically get you booted from the AppStore?
It's good that Apple is displaying this now, before they get too powerful for people to realize their true nature.
iFixit agreed to THIS.
IFixit violated THIS.
Simple. Breach of Contract.
Got it?
> it was a unit Apple gave them
Apparently with strings (NDA) attached? Or are you saying the NDA from their original developer relationship prevented this? Both of these seem a bit sketchy to me.
Does THIS look "sketchy" to you, seriously?
While I am all for being able to do anything to my personal devices, I believe they did a tear down on a Development kit of the Apple TV which they distributed to app creators. I'm sure there was a clause regarding tear down and app removal.
And here it is.
You tell me: Did iFixit violate the above-referenced term of the AppleTV Pre-Release Developer Kit?
Did you RTFA to see that the AppleTV they took apart was one that Apple lent them?
You keep saying that. The article never said anything about a lent item. They do not have to give it back. They did have to pay for it. A dollar. But a sale is a sale.
And an Agreement is an Agreement.
Idiot.
The same reason Microsoft was prosecuted for milder behavior than anything Apple has done. Market share. Anti-trust laws are only applied to market leaders, and Android is the mobile OS on most phones out there.
So long as Apple has the sense to be a 20-30% niche and knows how to keep that level of demand, they can get away with any monopolistic behavior for their niche.
Excuse me; but "niche" and "monopolistic behavior" are mathematically, legally, and practically, mutually exclusive.
I don't understand why an "informational" website would be done as an iOS app instead. Why give Apple that level of control over yourself? Just make a regular website, and then they can't pull the plug on your content!
An app should be for extremely interactive content only.
1. They didn't stop iFixit from disseminating their information by pulling the App for the iOS App Store. There is both an Android version of the App, as well as their regular website.
As to why an App, I have never used it myself; but having tried to use the iFixit website on a tablet while replacing the Trackpad in a friend's MacBook Pro, perhaps the App was a little better formatted for use on a tablet than the website.
Apple is the most vile tech company in existence and has been so since the Apple I.
Um, you do realize, of course, that it is well known that Steve Wozniak gave away schematics, parts lists and code for what was the Apple 1, to anyone interested at the Home Brew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
Prove me wrong, Slashtard, or GTFO.
This would be like if you loaned someone your car and they dismantled it.
I am cool with that if they replace gaskets and seals when they reassemble it.
Although I disagree with your position, I like your Moxie!
...again with the corporate boot licking.
Only corporations can have rights. People don't have rights. They only are allowed to do what our corporate masters tell us we can do.
You are a true retard.
People certainly have rights; but they can voluntarily abrogate those rights through an Agreement.
IFixit did exactly that when they both signed their Developer Agreement, which has a provision restricting the dissemination of Trade Secrets in relation to the receipt of Pre-Release materials. And if that wasn't enough, there is no doubt that they agreed to not post pictures, a review, etc. of their Pre-Release AppleTV in exchange for Apple selling them a Pre-Release AppleTV for $1.00.
And then they did just exactly that!
This isn't about "small electronics". It's about streamers and content. And yes, having their own vertically integrated platform does make them ripe for an anti-trust inquiry. The same goes for Apple too.
There's no reason to lick their boots, either of them.
Sigh.
Yet another Slashtard that is mind-numbingly ignorant if how law REALLY works.
I disagree. I have actually seen ads for one chain of networks on another chain of networks. If they pay enough, they will take the ad.
I think you usually see that with cable networks that are actually owned by the same Parent Company.
Amazon is free to produce their own app for Chromecast or Apple TV. This is probably more an issue where they want to push people into buying their own devices instead of Apple or Android devices.
Furthermore, Amazon does not have a fundamental right to refuse to sell anything it wants. Certain refusals similar to this one are outlawed (see here). According to the FTC's website there, if a company is refusing to provide a product in a strategy to acquire or maintain a monopoly, then it's illegal. I don't know whether this applies in this case (IANAL), but it certainly is a practice that harms consumers, and therefore should be outlawed.
You don't have to but an AppleTV or Chromecast from Amazon, nor do they have a "Monopoly" on streaming devices nor streaming services.
IANAL but this sounds douchebaggish; but IMHO, it falls far short of either COI or Monoplistic behavior.