https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
"The defendants are Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay, all high-technology companies with a principal place of business in the San Francisco–Silicon Valley area of California."
An evil, overpowered marketplace.
Anti-stallman, anti-web, anti-computing freedom, anti-engineer, anti-privacy, spy panopticon.
Poser.
Personality cult is never a good thing. It's equally not healthy to be obsessed with Stallman as it's with Jobs.
The only reason I'd work for Apple is to send the horrific things they do to my representatives and the Department of Justice. Emails. Meeting notes. Admissions of anticompetitive behavior.
Not a bad idea, but I think I'll have more impact elsewhere.
Amazon, Google & Microsoft are just as guilty of this with their cloud platforms.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Famgopoly
They all need to be broken up in the areas where they use platform powers to ensnare, absorb, and destroy.
Each of these companies could be decent companies, but they're allowed to abuse their positions and wreak havoc on multiple industries.
The meat of it: "As Apple prepared to launch the iPad, it offered a deal to the six biggest publishers in the U.S. The publishers could set the retail prices of e-books sold by Apple, up to a cap of $14.99, and they would get seventy per cent of the sale price. But if any other retailer was selling a given e-book at a lower price than the one a publisher had set, Apple could match it."
Contrast that with Amazon which could set the retail price freely "often at or even below the original wholesale price. Amazon didn’t mind losing money on each sale, as long as the strategy helped sell Kindles and expand the e-book market."