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There is no free market in a duopoly with high barriers to entry and lots of anti competitive practices. This absolutely needs regulation. It would not affect y
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
There is no free market in a duopoly with high barriers to entry and lots of anti competitive practices. This absolutely needs regulation. It would not affect you if you want to keep your phone in walled garden mode. But people should have a right to use their devices freely.
- FredPret 2y agoPeople already have a right to buy any of the hundreds of models on sale right now, many of which allow putting your own OS on it. People also have the right to start a new phone brand (if they feel like burning a couple hundred billion). The reason it’s so hard to break into this market is because its mature. The duopoly will only be supplanted by the next tech - smart glasses perhaps. No amount of regulation can change technological realities.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoI feel like you are making the case for regulation. If there cannot be competition until the next tech, then society can force the existing players to behave in an appropriate way using regulations.
- FredPret 2y agoWhat I'm saying is regulation slows down all of society to solve yesterday's problems, when we should put as much resources as possible into developing tomorrow's solutions. How much does it bug you that Xerox has (had?) a monopoly on copiers? Or that Windows + Intel dominated the 90's? Or that the train barons had their monopolies in the 1800's? The best solution is to make a monopoly irrelevant by supplanting it. Apple is either going to invent the next big thing, or they will go the way of IBM. Even now their peak quarterly revenue was back in 2022.