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The mental gymnastics outplay here are wild. Google is anticompetitive because they allowed users to install third party apps, but paid big players not to deve
by ApolloFortyNine 3y ago
The mental gymnastics outplay here are wild.
Google is anticompetitive because they allowed users to install third party apps, but paid big players not to develop app stores.
But if they had just done what Apple does, and just ban third party installs all together, that'd be what? Hyper competitive and fair?
It absolutely pains me to see Google essentially punished for having the only phone platform that allows users to install their own apps.
- theshackleford 3y ago[flagged]
- kelnos 3y agoCouldn't agree more. It's bizarre to think that one company should be punished because they theoretically had a competitive platform, but did some shady business deals to keep it noncompetitive; but another company is completely in the clear making a platform that is noncompetitive by design, with technical measures in place to ensure it can't be. I kinda get how it plays out that way in a legal sense, but it still baffles me that so many people can simultaneously support this ruling against Google and continue to praise Apple's practices. Cognitive dissonance (and the Jobsian RDF) is a thing.