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Re:ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Maf... by d1zzy on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:19PM (#24732787)
When you will build your own piece of land from scratch then you also get to decide what laws govern it.

The iPhone, iOS and the Apple Store exist because someone had the idea, will and spent tons of money building it. They aren't natural resources that Apple acquired and imposed on people so now everyone else has no choice but to pay the Apple tax.

So I don't see how that analogy applies here.

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Re:ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Maf... by Barrin92 on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:59PM (#24733802)
>When you will build your own piece of land from scratch then you also get to decide what laws govern it.

I don't know where you live but where I do the government determines laws, on my property or otherwise. i can't just do what i want on my property just because it's my property. Neither my actual land or the digital land of the app store are some sort of extraterritorial space, we're not living in the Shadowrun universe

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Re:ProtonMail CEO calls Apple's forced in-app purchases 'Maf... by zo1 on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:33PM (#24732916)
What about the products of my labor that I create from scratch? Can I decide what laws govern that too? You know, like taxes?

That idea went out the window a long time ago. Now we are all beholden to each-other and society on some level, so best we deal with it and solve these anti-competative issues and predatory platforms, otherwise let's agree that it's completely immoral and stop cherry-picking "moral rules" based on what we find useful at the time.

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