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We already have anti-trust regulations that are supposed to stop these sorts of anti-competitive behaviors. A company is not allowed to use its position as a "
by koheripbal 6y ago
We already have anti-trust regulations that are supposed to stop these sorts of anti-competitive behaviors.
A company is not allowed to use its position as a "market" to ALSO give an unfair advantage to its own products - or to shut out competitors without reasonable cause.
...but these laws aren't being enforced. It's funny to remember Microsoft being forced to de-couple Internet Explorer from Windows, and yet the idea of de-coupling the app Store from IOS or the Play store from Android does not seem to occur to regulators.
I have a conspiracy theory that they like that American companies have this market strangle-hold and are unwilling to give market share to EU or Chinese competitors. Imagine all the data collect lost!
- dgb23 6y agoIn theory there is already an open technology which is decoupled from these platforms: the browser. Job’s vision was exactly that. Now we’re still(!) in a place where standards are being fought by the likes if Apple, because they have an incentive to weaken open standards in favor of their closed platforms. This is a grotesque strategy that needs to stop.