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Re:Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual ga... by icebraining on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:58PM (#25022794)
I think there's a difference between regulations controlling externalities, or protecting the dispossessed, and protecting people from phones that don't have certain games. Do you not?
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Re:Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual ga... by manigandham on Saturday November 07, 2020 @11:39PM (#25023045)
No, because the regulation isn't protecting people from phones that don't have certain games. That would be silly.

Allowing over a billion users the freedom to install and use software on their smartphone (a critical computing device and the only one for many) without corporate approval can indeed control externalities, protect the dispossessed and even save lives.

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