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It is also criminal that Apple and Microsoft get away with enforcing a 'single point of app store'. Monopoly or not, states set the rules and these two are poi
by chappi42 13y ago
It is also criminal that Apple and Microsoft get away with enforcing a 'single point of app store'.
Monopoly or not, states set the rules and these two are points where imho government should enforce choice.
- simonh 13y agoThe problem with that is that you'd be making the Kindle business model illegal too. Same for games consoles, both handheld and portable. There's nothing novel or unique about app stores. Companies have been able to tightly control the media ecosystem for their devices for decades. Disrupting that would make the entire business model of subsidizing the device on the back of controlling access to the media nonviable. Goodbye video console market. Asta la Vista Gameboy. So long Kindle e-book reader. Unless you want to pay triple the current price for your next model of any of those. A sudden price hike like that would kill those markets stone dead. Be careful what you wish for, lest you get it.
- Packeteer 13y agoExcept the parent is wrong, the federal government limits states in matters of commerce, the bulk of which would be conducted interstate, not intrastate. States cannot limit the prosecution of commerce outside itself. It was an attempt to limit state rivalries, such as Texas telling Other states it had to pay a premium to use its ports.
- TheCoelacanth 13y agoI believe "state" here was used in the generic sense to refer to any organized political entity rather than the 50 states that make up the US.
- Packeteer 13y agoExcept he didn't say "state", he said "states" which does mean the 50 states that make up the US.
- chappi42 13y agoI'm no english native speaker, meant state in plural, sorry.
- Packeteer 13y agoWell, when someone refers to states, they mean the 50 US states if they are speaking of US law, otherwise they would refer to it differently. Moving on.
- TheCoelacanth 13y agoUh, no. States is just the plural of state. It can just as easily refer to generic political entities as to the specific 50 political entities that make up the US.
- chappi42 13y agoI don't understand your point about 'goodbye'. Are you saying that the hardware is subsidized? But it's a problem I didn't think of. While I don't mind Kindle, consoles I mind for phones, tablets and 'normal' computers. Probably a distinction should be made.