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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by fossuser on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:57PM (#26971570)
It is a little weird though.

- Apple has built a world wide empire selling these products in this way people seem to like

- As a result Apple has funneled that money and made world class hardware that's better than everyone else and leads in security/privacy

- Therefore we should force them to break their model because the others that didn't follow suit have hardware that sucks

That's not the most charitable interpretation, but there's some truth to it.

There’s some extra irony that the others in this case fuck over their users by leveraging their data to target ads.

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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by leadingthenet on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:50PM (#26972714)
Yes, thank you. That's the idea I wanted to express, but only managed to do so in a much less capable way.
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Re:Dominance of Apple and Google’s app stores impacting comp... by havernator on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @07:20PM (#26975477)
Don’t forget: “I want to go from two models of mobile OS ecosystem to one, in the name of choice and freedom”
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