Not fine by me regardless of monopoly status, and I believe it should be not fine by public policy either.
Not fine for a company to sell you a device on their own terms?
Re:Apple's 15% Deflection Tactic
by chrisseaton on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @07:23PM
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If you don't like the Apple ecosystem, feel free to ignore it. Just pretend it doesn't exist.
I can pretend Apple's ecosystem doesn't exist, but I can't pretend that all of the negative externalities of Apple's ecosystem don't exist.
Not for iOS realistically speaking. You have to switch to Android, your only other choice, and suddenly all your other Apple devices don't really work that well.
Yeah except compatibility like that has never been a legal requirement and I’m not sure how it could become one either.
Yes realistically speaking. Of course if you switch to a competitor things aren’t going to integrate as well. Perhaps you can immerse yourself in that ecosystem.
If you have to switch to Toyota it’s not going to do everything as well as your Tesla, otherwise Tesla wouldn’t exist. That’s a silly argument.
My argument is for interoperability and better 3rd party access to APIs within the OS.
My argument is not that Android doesn't function as well, I quite liked it infact but all my other apple devices basically lost half their functionality without an iPhone and Apple won't give access to 3rd party developers or itself make those apps for Android.
Apple won't even let 3rd party apps integrate with the system like their own do - which is why I wanted to shift away from an iPhone in the first place. Not because I hate or like Android, but because I can replace whatever parts of Google I don't like
Fine by me. Their business what they charge and how their product is designed, not mine.
As long as there's a competitor. And there is.