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Because the government should not have unilateral power over a platform you've poured your own time, money, and effort into developing. That would be theft. I
by xvector 6y ago
Because the government should not have unilateral power over a platform you've poured your own time, money, and effort into developing.
That would be theft. I am honestly amazed that people are still in favor of gross government overreach in the era of Trump.
- Apocryphon 6y agoYou can say the same about Ma Bell, or Standard Oil. The pre-edited version of the original post asked the ludicrous question "So now we’re going to have governments design the software in our phones", so he got a ludicrous answer in kind. But in theory, if Apple's control of the App Store platform constitutes a monopoly, it would not be gross government overreach to pursue antitrust, as it has done historically, even if it has been unfashionable in recent decades.
- xvector 6y ago> if Apple's control of the App Store platform constitutes a monopoly, But it's not a monopoly. The vast majority of the "app store" ecosystem is the Play Store. Apple's "App Store" is a minority player. Otherwise you could arbitrarily divide any platform recursively until something is a monopoly in need of getting regulated.
- Apocryphon 6y agoThe OP article argues that it is a monopoly. You are free to agree or disagree with its thesis. However, my statement was that "if Apple's control of the App Store platform constitutes a monopoly", then the government should have free rein to do so, as it has repeatedly done so in the past.
- xvector 6y agoIndeed. I would agree with you if Apple was a monopoly in this space.