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regulation is not the answer. The market aka the consumer will solve this on its own.
by sealthedeal 6y ago
regulation is not the answer. The market aka the consumer will solve this on its own.
- ccktlmazeltov 6y agoSo you believe in anarchy? You don't believe in any regulation? It sounds a bit naive.
- missedthecue 6y agoReferring to this situation.
- sealthedeal 6y agoI believe in as little government regulation as we need to keep this country from imploding, but just enough to make us the #1 country in the world (w/e that means)
- ccktlmazeltov 6y agoyou're at the bottom of the list currently my dude
- sircastor 6y agoI like to think that this would be resolved by the market, but if that were the case, why hasn’t It happened. Apple has been acting this way for 12 years. They haven’t changed their tune. The singular real market alternative is android, which still suffers from fragmentation issues. Microsoft, one of the most powerful companies in the world, couldn’t make their option work. Amazon, one of the most powerful companies in the world couldn’t get people onboard with their non-google version of Android. BlackBerry, the most powerful company in the space before Apple couldn’t keep their devices competitive. Palm, the leader before BlackBerry couldn’t make their OS stick.
- AndrewUnmuted 6y agoIMO, this is all quite true and it signals an in-built ceiling in the mobile phone market, which I believe we're closer to reaching than people realize. Perhaps the market's innovation that solves this walled garden problem will be towards a very different or very new kind of mobile communications product altogether, rather than a mere iteration on the now rather tired smartphone theme.
- sealthedeal 6y agoIf any of those products were truly better we would be using them today. I’m not saying apples 30% take isn’t BS, what I am saying is that if enough of us tell Apple to go F themselves, I.e. what FN is doing, they will be forced to change without the government stepping into our lives. It’s basic free-market economics...
- weixiyen 6y agoregulation is what allows consumers the opportunity to make decisions for themselves. otherwise, we'd all still be using internet explorer
- sealthedeal 6y agoThat is so perverted on so many levels. Tech is the last real free-market, we need to keep regulation away as much as we can. We are the last bastion of Adam Smiths economy...