Of course, the reason this isnt being taken up by anti-trust folks is that iOS doesn't dominate the market the way windows did. So: i guess the answer is to convince my users to stop buying idevices. Whee.
No. Monopolies themselves aren't illegal, especially when they're natural monopolies.
It is illegal for a company to use its monopoly to stifle competition in other, unrelated markets.
The classic case is Microsoft using its monopoly in operating systems when Windows had 95% marketshare in the emerging browser market. Remember that Microsoft threatened to cancel HP and Compaq’s Windows licenses if they continued to ship Netscape Navigator instead of IE. That's illegal.
It's not illegal to have a rules and guidelines for a platform a particular company owns. Game consoles are way more restrictive than the iOS App Store and nobody is suing them.
How do you feel about ChromeOS?
I am so glad people can use another browser on ChromeOS, oh wait...
Re:JSC loves ES6
by lern_too_spel on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:09AM
(#14503885)
The difference is that it was technically infeasible to run another browser on ChromeOS,
not policy infeasible. The technical infeasibility was recently removed. https://www.google.com/amp/www.techrepublic.com/google-amp/a...
No difference at all, in regards to the end user experience, but Google tends to have a green card from HN crowd.
Re:JSC loves ES6
by lern_too_spel on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @05:31PM
(#14510031)
If I really wanted to, I could have built another browser using PNaCl and run it and distributed it on ChromeOS even before it supported Android apps where users trivially have access to other browsers. That remains impossible on iDevices to this day.
If you can't see the difference, you are only deceiving yourself.
On the other hand, it is objectively true that there is only one browser platform for iOS. WebKit or nothing. If they actually supported chrome or Firefox instead of requiring them to be wrappers on webkit renderers, I would not have this complaint.
Of course, the reason this isnt being taken up by anti-trust folks is that iOS doesn't dominate the market the way windows did. So: i guess the answer is to convince my users to stop buying idevices. Whee.