Well you can't run your own OS on iPhone hardware without jailbreaking but that's beside the point. You don't own your Xbox not because you can't run Playstation games on it but because the manufacturer put a digital lock on it they control which denies you the ability to run software they don't approve of on it.
I think we can do better than "well you own it because you're technically allowed to attempt to break the lock." We can demand that users be given ability to remove the lock.
I’m still not seeing the difference between an iPhone and Xbox. They’re both controlling what software you can run on their systems, why are people complaining about one but not the other?
Because iPhones are the primary computer for hundreds of millions of people, and Xboxes are toys that some people have in their living rooms. It's not hard to believe that people have a right to control their computers and consider the situations with both devices bad, but to be far far more concerned about the iPhone.
I don’t where you’ve been the last couple of decades, but plenty of people complain about software restrictions on gaming consoles. There was a whole era when console games were even region-locked, and that fucking sucked…
Because the number of people on HN who think they will become a billionaire if Apple let everyone install their app is much greater than the people who think the same about Xbox.
I think we can do better than "well you own it because you're technically allowed to attempt to break the lock." We can demand that users be given ability to remove the lock.