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Re:Big Tech Has Become Too Powerful by superuser2 on Saturday September 19, 2015 @02:09PM (#10245042)
Antitrust law can't force you to develop your products for platforms you don't want to target. You will never see an antitrust decision that Apple must develop a Windows version of XCode, and in fact doing so would probably require a total re-architecture of the iOS platform.

You might see antitrust law force Apple to allow sideloading, including apps built by toolchains third parties have hacked together.

You're also not required to use a Macbook; the Mini is $500.

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Re:Big Tech Has Become Too Powerful by aurelianito on Sunday September 20, 2015 @11:35PM (#10250201)
Why not?

If a monopoly is allowed to choose, it can use its domination in one vertical to influence another vertical.

Anyway, I would prefer a Linux version of the iPhone SDK. I do not use neither Windows nor OSX normally.

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