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This is an incredibly hard thing to legislate. Almost every company does some level of vertical integration, and it's often good to the consumer. Still you want
by Gravityloss 6y ago
This is an incredibly hard thing to legislate. Almost every company does some level of vertical integration, and it's often good to the consumer. Still you want to prevent locking down and monopolies or even oligopolies.
Would Apple itself be here if Microsoft didn't port Office to their OS?
- Someone 6y agoMicrosoft ported part of Office to Windows. Excel for Mac is from 1985, the first Windows version from 1987 (you could say both evolved from DOS Multiplan, but that was on Mac, too); Word was on DOS in 1983, Mac in 1985, Windows in 1989.
- cblconfederate 6y agoThey can probably be easily compliant if they allow alternative app stores. Nothing else needs to change
- dannyw 6y agoVertical integration is fine, just require them to open up the exact same APIs to third party developers so they are not at a disadvantage.
- cle 6y agoWould this mean Apple would need to sell M1 chips for non-macOS use?
- avianlyric 6y agoNot sure if you're saying that bad thing or not, but I think the answer is almost certainly no. But there could be a requirement that Apple open up their laptops to other OSs (and not just via virtualization). And honestly I don't see why that would be a bad thing.
- cle 6y agoI don't know if it'd be a bad thing or not, was just wondering out loud. I could see reasonable arguments for both sides of that issue.
- Leherenn 6y agoBut the bootloader is already open as far as I know, the real issue is drivers. You probably can't force them to write the drivers for other OS, but you could presumably force them to document the hardware.
- username90 6y agoEuropean anti trust law is a lot simpler than US since there are a lot less details and judges get to use more common sense when judging companies. For example EU already fixed the credit card duopoly while US still hasn't managed to do anything about it. Note EU didn't broke it up, just force them to massively reduce their fees, it is very likely they will do something similar with the app store.
- xxpor 6y agoAnd now if you live in the EU you don't have the CC rewards people in the US do. Congrats, you traded off consumer welfare for small business interests.