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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by ClumsyPilot on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:00AM (#26992816)
"millions of users like me, like the closed garden."

Alcapone was popular, but he was still a criminal and a murderer

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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by FredPret on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:34AM (#26993252)
If you think about it really carefully, Apple vetting apps before I get to see them is not... exactly... the same thing as being a murdering gangster
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by fouric on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:39AM (#26994861)
It's pretty clear that the parent was not stating that those were the same thing, but instead that popularity does not mean correctness (either in the technical sense or the moral sense).
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Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ... by rattlesnakedave on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:01PM (#26995196)
Peak hackernews comment. This is an inane comparison. Murder is not the same as me being satisfied that every app publisher under the sun cannot make their own app store to pollute my phone further.
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