Re:EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after ...
by Apocryphon on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:07PM
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> an attack vector for 3 billion
Apple can handle it. They could just put enough stringent protections at the OS layer against malicious apps. Not to mention, any sideloading feature would be well guarded from within the interface so that no one other than power users would actually find it and enable it.
> This same "me too" philosophy is ruining online content distribution where once Netflix was so good.
Ease of service does not justify monopoly.
> Just look at the difficulty in finding out if a given movie or TV show is on any of your services.
It is indeed annoying, but that's not so much an issue directly caused by competition between different streaming services, so much as the studios/networks hoarding their IP. Even if Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. never existed, you'd still see efforts like HBO Max, Peacock from NBC, Paramount Plus from CBS, etc. to try to monopolize their own IP by keeping it off of Netflix.
Apple can handle it. They could just put enough stringent protections at the OS layer against malicious apps. Not to mention, any sideloading feature would be well guarded from within the interface so that no one other than power users would actually find it and enable it.
> This same "me too" philosophy is ruining online content distribution where once Netflix was so good.
Ease of service does not justify monopoly.
> Just look at the difficulty in finding out if a given movie or TV show is on any of your services.
It is indeed annoying, but that's not so much an issue directly caused by competition between different streaming services, so much as the studios/networks hoarding their IP. Even if Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. never existed, you'd still see efforts like HBO Max, Peacock from NBC, Paramount Plus from CBS, etc. to try to monopolize their own IP by keeping it off of Netflix.