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I don't think you understand what a "free market" is. This is a free market. A more regulated market would require open hardware platforms from hardware manufac
by empthought 8y ago
I don't think you understand what a "free market" is. This is a free market. A more regulated market would require open hardware platforms from hardware manufacturers and open systems from operating systems implementors. Only government intervention can force that to occur.
- izacus 8y agoI'm pretty sure pretty much every sentence in your post is false. I'm talking in context of services provided on iOS, where you cannot have equal competition. Calling that market "free" means you're deliberately ignoring the reason why free market is a good force of society - because it allows the competition between providers to drive down prices and improve on benefits to the user. If some are hamstrung when trying to provide you a service by the platform then free market isn't providing you value. Just blindly following the holy book of capitalism without understanding why it's good will quickly lead you into corporation lead monopoly which isn't all that different from state dictated socialism.
- Nerdfest 8y agoFollowing the holy book of a brand, like Apple, will also lead there.
- empthought 8y ago“Services provided on iOS” is not a market in the regulatory sense. “Services provided to mobile devices” is possibly a market in that sense, and there is indeed competition there. Apple would have to have a monopoly on mobile devices for there to be a concern that the market is not free.