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by smoldesu 2y ago
"It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans." - Steve Jobs, on Apple's suit following his resignation (Newsweek, September 30, 1985)
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by smoldesu 2y ago
If you want to run a non-default OS, don't install one. Blocking competitors for competition's sake is a regulatory tightrope walk, the exact same mentality that nearly annihilated Microsoft.
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Historically, the first amendment has never been used as a defense in antitrust law (and for good reason). A business and it's self-expression is kinda besides the point when you're analyzing market harm and extrinsic impact. Micr
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by smoldesu 2y ago
It's an even better deal if you live in Europe, now: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/29/24086792/setapp-subscript...
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by smoldesu 2y ago
While I agree that Microsoft's treatment of Windows is basically criminally negligent at this point, it's a lot harder to prove damages with them than it is with Apple right now. I also suspect that any prosecution against desktop
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Solenoid in a box!
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Google is under similar scrutiny. They are designated as a service and digital market Gatekeeper under EU law and will be reprimanded if they abuse a potential monopoly position. I personally support regulating Google, and the scrutiny of
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by smoldesu 2y ago
That's speculatory, and furthermore I'd argue Apple is already failing to compete if their only competitive tactic is lock-in. Apple's anticompetitive behavior may well be the last thing stopping a browser monopoly. That&#x
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by smoldesu 2y ago
> So without extra encryption they could snoop on that too. This is basically the crux of your argument. I mostly agree with you - neither Apple nor Google do enough to protect user traffic in the big-picture. You can Wireshark a lot of
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Yup. It wouldn't be quite so close of a comparison if third-party browsers could ship with their engines intact, let alone at-cost to their users. Apple is using their control to block competitors. At their scale, that's a dangero
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Probably got killed alongside the free API. There's very little financial incentive to support Twitter at the prices they're demanding.
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by smoldesu 2y ago
It would be increasing regardless of what we did in Ukraine. It should surprise nobody that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists.
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by smoldesu 2y ago
> and can play exactly none of them on the Mac because several years into Apple Silicon You think that's some kind of low blow? This is a problem on the Mac App Store, too; if you buy software Apple depreciates, your Apple hardware
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Maybe Apple shouldn't use their dominant position as a smartphone manufacturer to knowledgeably exploit human insecurity and exacerbate user woe in hope of selling families another iPhone: https://www.theverge.com/2024&
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by smoldesu 2y ago
> There are plenty of components that most programs call out to the OS Sure - user input handling, raster graphics, text formatting... HTML rendering and browser technology though? Apple made WebKit using FOSS desktop libraries, and then
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Apple is competing against multiple companies, all of which are minorities relative to the iPhone's market share. These companies use derivatives of Android, but still compete against one another and Apple all the same. Android and Lin
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Be careful guys, this is Russia's "Final Warning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China's_final_warning
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by smoldesu 2y ago
You're all good. It's been a few months since I've written one of these comments out entirely, so I'll give you the rundown: - Android is Open Source. Google itself is a ghoulish company nowadays, few people are wrong in
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by smoldesu 2y ago
> someone being held as property, their family members terrorized, raped, beaten, whipped, murdered, etc. at the whim of their legal owners. Which is coincidentally quite similar to the treatment of North Korean and Chinese penal workers
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by smoldesu 2y ago
If you get a complaint from the Department of Justice, you should probably be more focused on preventing a break-up than counting your nest eggs.
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by smoldesu 2y ago
If you pry up the pavement on the way to hell, you'll find good intentions underneath. Trust whoever you want, but don't turn around and make claims you're unwilling to defend. The security Apple offers is far from unconditio
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by smoldesu 2y ago
If the current trade-off is considered anticompetitive, there may be enough incentive to create a new model. Bell telephone offered free long distance calls on their network, the happiness of their customers didn't protect them when re
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by smoldesu 2y ago
For your safety, I hope the government is looking out for you.
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by smoldesu 2y ago
Epic's sentiment certainly resonated with the European Commission, and apparently the DOJ as well. Do any of us really believe Apple's App Store control is harmless?
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by smoldesu 2y ago
> Could you really expect a company to justify the kind of work Well they certainly justified it to support their own first-party service just fine. So... yes?
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by smoldesu 2y ago
I hope he's using it as an opportunity to reflect on FOMO-based business strategies and the impacts of regressive software censorship. Tim made a lot of tough choices in his tenure, and now his chickens are coming home to roost. Hopefu
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by smoldesu 2y ago
That's a reason someone might prefer Apple's first-party browser, sure. How does it justify banning third-party browser engines though? Are we ruling out the possibility that competitive browsers could offer better battery perform
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by smoldesu 2y ago
How do you think Apple will differentiate their case from United States v. Microsoft Corp. , where Microsoft was implicated for almost identical monopoly misconduct? The complaint literally says verbatim, "But after launching the iPho
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by smoldesu 2y ago
I'm not sure how this would be a better investment than regulating the mobile duopoly, though. Even if they did pursue an Open phone as an initiative, there's no baseline rules for their competitors to play against. Both Google
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by smoldesu 2y ago
They don't need to. I'm not sure if you're aware, but it's actually possible to encrypt traffic using things other than TLS. A regular app on non-jailbroken iOS can completely circumvent TLS decryption. First-party App

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