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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by nwienert on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:33PM (#24594794)
That’s not how lock-in works, and you’re trying to go back to free market libertarian philosophy. Handicap elevators , building codes, emissions standards are “authoritarian”.

Libertarian philosophy is maybe the least compelling of them all in my opinion.

Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by mullingitover on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:30PM (#24595092)
> Handicap elevators , building codes, emissions standards are “authoritarian”

Safety and accessibility are human needs, and regulating markets to address those needs is a completely reasonable requirement.

Forcing product designers by legislative fiat to add a cool feature you want, on the other hand, is pretty authoritarian. Nothing is stopping you from buying a general purpose computing device right now, or building one and selling it.

Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by nwienert on Friday September 25, 2020 @09:24PM (#24595665)
Two of the top 10 biggest companies in america captured 99% of the market, there’s something pretty big stopping me.

You’d have been pro Bell I guess back in the day. “What’s stopping you from building a competing telephone service?” Oh only not having capital > all VC investments made in any given year.

Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by mullingitover on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:32PM (#24595975)
> Two of the top 10 biggest companies in america captured 99% of the market, there’s something pretty big stopping me.

Correct - and Google's very popular, but not dominant OS will already let you sideload whatever code you like, which is a big part of why you'd have a hard time competing. I'm sorry, running arbitrary code on your daily driver phone is just not the game-changing feature you're making it out to be.