It's a little bit different in the US. You actually do own the condominium or house, but you agree the follow the rules of the HOA as a condition of the contract to buy, which includes the payment of dues and fines for violating regulations. If you fail to pay such dues and fines, depending on the jurisdiction, a lien can be placed against the house and in some jurisdiction foreclose on the property for unpaid assessments. It is a good reason not to buy a house within an HOA.
Even in communities which don't have HOAs, there can be CC&Rs attached to ownership which express conditions which much be abided. Such conditions can be as trivial as not parking on your driveway to restrictions on the sale of your property. The CC&Rs for many homes in the US, at one time, often forbade sales to people of color. Such covenants have been found illegal to enforce, but they remain in the documents covering the sale and purchase of houses.
That’s very interesting considering a CC&R or a HOa as part of a purchase where ownership is transferred would never be allowed.
Covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs) describe what you can and can't do with your home. For example, the CC&Rs might limit what color you can paint your house, prohibit you from leaving your laundry out to dry, or describe what type of mailbox you may install.
Such a thing aren’t legally applicable. For example if I purchased a new house in a neighborhood three will be zero conditions for it, and in the same way if I sold it there can’t be any conditions on me for how I sell it.
These are seen as fundamental breach of private property rights. Calling it a purchase or ownership would be laughable. The only one who could put such restrictions are the state in the form of parking on the street or painting the house.
Some things the state would require you to ask your next door neighbor for their permission if it’s a dramatic change that have a measurable impact
Mitigating this, of course, is that no one is forced to buy a house if they don't like the CC&Rs or the HOA, just as no one is forced to buy an iPhone. Sales of smartphones in Europe confirm that fact as there are twice as many android phones in the EU as there are iOS phones.
And perhaps this makes it more clear, restricting your rights in how your devices is used is equally absurd and strange if you would do that with your house.
Your house is your property alongside everything inside it including the land it’s built on and the same goes for the phone you bought and everything else inside it.
"Se above and use other software if you value their services only through the AppStore"
LOL, that's funny.
The person who gets mad when people tell him to buy an Android to fix his alt-store fixation tells me to use other apps if the ones I like leave the Apple App store.
Hypocrite much?
Well can’t you actually identify the hypocrisy on your side?
You have two scenarios with the exact same result to the end user “you”. The developer stops providing their app in the iOS AppStore and you no longer have access to it.
- You think it’s okey if the app isn’t available anymore on iOS and only available on alternative stores on android and you should obviously get android if it’s so important to you etc etc
- as the normal deflection goes. Developer freedom, user freedom and apple’s freedom is maintained, with the small conundrum of potentially getting a new android device.
- But it’s not okey for some odd reason when the same developer pulls their app from the AppStore and chooses to only have it available on alternative stores on android…. AND other store alternatives on iOS as well.
- Now when the freedom is still maintained but with the only difference that the you don’t need to get a new android device, you could just get another iOS device if you don’t want it on your main device
Why should the developer only be free to leave the platform completely instead of using another store?
How am I a hypocrite? If an app isn’t available or removed from the AppStore you have always had to replace it with an alternative application, that reality haven’t changed. And with side loading this fundamental reality will be exactly the same.