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Apple is the biggest monopoly in the US right now. Hands down. They get to get away with everything! Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. all get hammered on the
by purpmint008 6y ago
Apple is the biggest monopoly in the US right now. Hands down.
They get to get away with everything!
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. all get hammered on the daily in the US and in the EU. But, Apple is a golden child that can do no wrong.
Do you people not realize that they've created a peer-pressure device in the form of the iPhone by packaging SMS and iMessage into 1 app called "Messages"?
How is that even legal?!
The app should be broke up into 2.
You should be given options on what messaging app you want to install.
Their practices are anti-competitive.
15-30% cut via the App Store for Apple?! Is this a joke?!
- purpmint008 6y agoKeep downvoting me, fanboys! Long live the resistance!
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- dang 6y agoWould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- purpmint008 6y agoHow about the Apple Music store being embedded into the default Music App? Blatantly anti-competitive against Spotify.
- dang 6y agoSure, that would make a good point as part of a relevant comment somewhere.
- warkdarrior 6y ago> Do you people not realize that they've created a peer-pressure device in the form of the iPhone by packaging SMS and iMessage into 1 app called "Messages"? How is that even legal?! https://www.gihosoft.com/iphone-tips/best-messaging-apps-ios.html https://www.gihosoft.com/iphone-tips/best-messaging-apps-ios...
- purpmint008 6y agoI am well-aware of these. The issue is the joint-packaging. If we went hard on Microsoft for packaging IE and WMP into Windows, we should go equally ballistic about iMessage and SMS being fused in together. They should be broken up.
- Karunamon 6y agoWe didn't "go hard on" Microsoft for mere bundling of basic tools like media viewers and web browsers. It was because they were using that dominant position (which is perfectly fine to have) to behave anticompetitively (which is not).
- purpmint008 6y ago> "behave anticompetitively" What is Apple doing when it bundles iMessage and SMS together? Deception and anti-competitive behavior, that's what!
- kergonath 6y agoHow so? What is their nefarious plan and how do they go about it? If you are the one seeing the truth and you want to be taken seriously you need to do better than just throw around words like “monopoly” and “anti-competitive” with no justification whatsoever.
- purpmint008 6y agoBundling of iMessage and SMS = reduction in competition by integration.