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Re:Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-c... by echelon on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:50AM (#28786230)
> Many of the Apple's customers (including me) see that as a feature and not a problem.

This is almost Orwellian. Imagine Standard Oil customers cheering the demise of the corner mom and pop.

All of this while Apple collects a dossier on each of you that they'll willingly hand over to the FBI, FSB, or Chinese Ministry of State Surveillance.

If none of that convinces you, then do me a favor. A thought experiment.

Imagine an alternate history wherein we replace Apple with Microsoft. Imagine that the iPhone lost and became just a footnote or history and that Steve Ballmer's Microsoft ZunePhone Pro 10 won the market. That's what we all have in our pockets now.

Would you be happy if Microsoft owned the customer relationship? Would you feel just as happy?

Apple is immaterial in this. We don't need companies to be this powerful.

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Re:Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-c... by endisneigh on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:55AM (#28786289)
Is anyone being forced to use The ZunePhone Pro 10 or the iPhone? Android dominates worldwide with a staggering 70%+ depending on who you ask.

I do agree that companies shouldn't be so powerful tho

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