Please, someone at the DOJ, take antitrust seriously. This demands a breakup.
Put the hardware and OS in the hands of different companies and let alternative software solutions spring up.
Edit. To the downvoters: neverminding the excessive tax, do you consider the toll on innovation this kind of gatekeeping causes? All the wasted human capital spent bending to this draconian ruleset?
All for access to general computing devices that the public uses. Stuff that used to be wide open, but that is now under lock and key.
Yes, yes it is. That will force open hardware specs, right-to-repair, limit damaging DRM, and encourage competitive software and hardware markets. And even multiple software stores, if that's what the market wants.
If they allow installing software from outside of the store, that would be fair. If they forbid installing software entirely, that would be fair too, but would turn iPhone into a dumbphone.
The head-scratcher for me is that people would rather battle this out with Apple so they can release compiled binary apps for projects that simply display text and images and buttons instead of just using the web for free.
It's only the extreme minority of apps in the app store that couldn't be perfectly usable experiences on the web. Even moreso if developer momentum moved there on mobile.
What could they possibly do, other than make things worse for him? If the problem goes up to directors, then doesn't that imply that Apple won't change?
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 63.2 ms ] threadPut the hardware and OS in the hands of different companies and let alternative software solutions spring up.
Edit. To the downvoters: neverminding the excessive tax, do you consider the toll on innovation this kind of gatekeeping causes? All the wasted human capital spent bending to this draconian ruleset?
All for access to general computing devices that the public uses. Stuff that used to be wide open, but that is now under lock and key.
This isn't fucking fair.
It's only the extreme minority of apps in the app store that couldn't be perfectly usable experiences on the web. Even moreso if developer momentum moved there on mobile.