Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint
by visarga on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:25AM
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Big corporations should be treated more like infrastructure and free markets than private companies. The more impact they have on society the bigger the opportunity to externalize costs and privatize profits.
They can strangle creativity and keep us prisoners in their walled gardens for decades, subjecting us to high prices and tarrifs, lack of choice, missed technological opportunities, biased filtering and ranking, whimsical deplatforming of users and blocking of apps, stifling the development of competing and innovative businesses, or buying them outright to keep the risk away.
To be fair, until it was limited to a small section of the population, it wasn't a big deal. So rich people want to live in walled gardens, so what? But when you start talking about 20% or 30% of the whole population, then it's a significant problem. It took a bit for Apple to reach that level but they are definitely there now, and since they don't seem to be willing to change, they have to be forced to accept that it has to happen.