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Have you ever used an Oculus Quest before? Between the full-screen Apple Music pop-ups and "suggested apps" when you search on the App Store, I think my Quest actually has less advertisements than modern iOS...

Regardless of platform, the problem is still the same, and the solution is equally plain. Apple and Meta should both be allowed to sell hardware - they're both really good at it! Their software needs an opportunity to compete with the community though, otherwise they'll never have their best interests at heart. The good news is that both companies already hire thousands of software engineers to work on their software. It's economically impossible for them to make inferior software even if we do force them to do the right thing. Win/win!




> Have you ever used an Oculus Quest before? Between the full-screen Apple Music pop-ups and "suggested apps" when you search on the App Store, I think my Quest actually has less advertisements than modern iOS...

The GP was saying what would happen in the future. iOS v1 and v2 had the same amount of advertisements as Quest.


I agree, all of this further emphasizes the importance of allowing third-parties to develop their own OSes on hardware they own.




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