Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple

Re:Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple by scarface74 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @03:15PM (#18546249)

Most people are buying laptops and every time that Microsoft tries to bring anything new to market with their OS, the race to the bottom OEMs won’t have the hardwarecto support it. Can you imagine Windows PCs having the right integration between the OS and something like the T2 chip?

Even worse is Android. Google releases a new OS and may see low double digit adoption after a year. OEMs have no incentive to push upgrades to their users. iOS’d ArKit can only work as well it does (not saying much bet still better than what Google could muster) because of tight integration between a known subset of hardware and software.

This isn’t even to mention all of the bespoke custom interfaces on Android and all of the adware on consumer PCs and Android Phones.

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Re:Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple by dang on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:57PM (#18575037)

Please don't post any more flamewar comments to Hacker News. They're what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple by scarface74 on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:00AM (#18550640)

I have no idea what you are getting at, but I can say both when it comes to phones and computers, the integrated offerings from Google is better than any other Android phone and being able to get an update for iOS the day it comes out instead of waiting for the carrier and OEM are much better experiences.

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Re:Antitrust, the App Store, and Apple by simion314 on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @07:52AM (#18551053)

The question is In your opinion we should only have integrated "experiences"? aka should MS and Google pull an Apple and not sell the software to the customers , but sell you the hardware with the software included ?

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