Reading this I felt embarrassed for the author. It is strange to me that for a place for "hackers" that ostentatiously love technology, there are so many free p

Reading this I felt embarrassed for the author. It is strange to me that for a place for "hackers" that ostentatiously love technology, there are so many free passes and wishful mental gymnastics given over to a profit driven company that has no qualms stifling innovation through platform abuse and litigation. Here its own projection is simply a confession of itself. This article serves as little more than a mouthpiece to sway public opinion and maintain a sense of exclusivity for being locked into an ecosystem. The author uses a particular set of features and that's why the EU is wrong, what? Complying with the rulings will not somehow break the platform. This trillion dollar company will do just fine, usually in the form of weaseling out of its obligations, a tactic it has honed to an art over the years. And if not weaseling, it has the resources to solve those problems. No, the author's post, and often hn comments, are more complaints about opening up the platform to others, and is reminiscent of the same complaining that playstation fans went through when formerly exclusive titles were being ported to other platforms. It turns out many played certain games only because they were exclusives.