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It’s amazing that one company could control the hardware and universal functions like texting in such a restrictive hyper-capitalistic way. “You can write apps
by seebetter 6y ago
It’s amazing that one company could control the hardware and universal functions like texting in such a restrictive hyper-capitalistic way.
“You can write apps for our hardware but all your purchases we take 30%...” imagine Microsoft trying this tactic in the 1990s.
- jandrese 6y agoThe year of Linux on the Desktop probably would have actually happened. But that's really not the right comparison. It would be more like back in the pre-clone era IBM taking a cut of everything that ran on a PC. They might have even gotten away with it had the courts gone the other way on the BIOS copyright lawsuit. Probably would have set personal computing back for years.