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I feel like every time Apple's anti-sideloading, anti-browser-(engine-)choice practices come up, there's a chorus of, 'Consumers have choice! They can go elsewh
by rektide 5y ago
I feel like every time Apple's anti-sideloading, anti-browser-(engine-)choice practices come up, there's a chorus of, 'Consumers have choice! They can go elsewhere!'.
Which is predicated around the one & only one other smartphone market actor not being controlling sinister exploiters.'It's ok that we're bad, because there are other good people.' 'If you want choice, you have it, just not here' is, in such a small pool, imo, not sufficient. The vise-like grip imo is engaged in deep anti-trust anticompetitive behaviors; there being a duopoloy rather than a monopoly is an uninteresting distinction to me, even if one of the duopoly still allows some freedom.