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These are fair points, I am curious how you perceive the existing wireless industry in the United States. It seems to me that Verizon and others are in a state

These are fair points, I am curious how you perceive the existing wireless industry in the United States. It seems to me that Verizon and others are in a state of perpetually profiting their consolidation of companies that were in the "right place at the right time." Would you agree with this? If so, do you think these companies are making outsized profits given lack of entitlement? How would you craft policy that would cover not just the Apple but other companies like wireless carriers? Separately, you mention Mentor Graphics above. Did you mean to refer to chip-level design tool software?

tsimionescu 5y ago
I'm not sure how the US wireless market works, as I don't live there. Still, centralization and consolidation of service providers is always a bad thing, and ideally anti-trust legislation should reflect this. This problem exists in my own country as well. Still, this seems like a separate problem to me - one is consolidation of different service providers into fewer ones; the other is extending your market position in one space (smartphones as hardware) into another (smartphone software). I doubt the exact same legislation could cover both, as acquiring/merging with competitors is different from creating your own market monopoly. I don't know enough about how these things can exactly be regulated to propose actual legislation. I can only say that the current situation is bad and getting worse, and that allowing huge mergers, and allowing companies to control all activity on the hardware they sell, are both negatives that need to be legislated somehow. > Separately, you mention Mentor Graphics above. Did you mean to refer to chip-level design tool software? Yes, it was the first thing that came to my mind as Unix-based commercial software. Honestly, I have no idea if it actually runs on a Mac, but the exact software was immaterial to my point, so I didn't do too much research.

tsimionescu 5y ago

I'm not sure how the US wireless market works, as I don't live there. Still, centralization and consolidation of service providers is always a bad thing, and ideally anti-trust legislation should reflect this. This problem exists in my own country as well. Still, this seems like a separate problem to me - one is consolidation of different service providers into fewer ones; the other is extending your market position in one space (smartphones as hardware) into another (smartphone software). I doubt the exact same legislation could cover both, as acquiring/merging with competitors is different from creating your own market monopoly. I don't know enough about how these things can exactly be regulated to propose actual legislation. I can only say that the current situation is bad and getting worse, and that allowing huge mergers, and allowing companies to control all activity on the hardware they sell, are both negatives that need to be legislated somehow. > Separately, you mention Mentor Graphics above. Did you mean to refer to chip-level design tool software? Yes, it was the first thing that came to my mind as Unix-based commercial software. Honestly, I have no idea if it actually runs on a Mac, but the exact software was immaterial to my point, so I didn't do too much research.