Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business

Re:Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out... by tshaddox on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @11:20AM (#29810921)

Almost any time anyone brings up accusations of anticompetitive behavior against Apple for the iOS ecosystem, notice that what they’re saying is “in order to make the smartphone market more competitive and give customers more choice, Apple should be forced to make their smartphone offerings less distinguishable from Android, the only other smartphone ecosystem.”

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Re:Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out... by ipaddr on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:48PM (#29813198)

If more like chrome means more openness and choices for the public than who cares if it is like chrome or not like chrome.

If Apple decided there next phone would have no screen or phone it would automatically make it a better choice because it is so much more different from android? I don't buy that line of thinking.

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Re:Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out... by tshaddox on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:43PM (#29815420)

> If more like chrome means more openness and choices for the public than who cares if it is like chrome or not like chrome.

Because it will make iPhones worse for a huge number of iPhone users. You might say “I don’t care if you’re less satisfied with your iPhone because you now have ‘more choice’ according to my limited definition.” But Apple presumably actually cares about how satisfied people are with their iPhones.

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Re:Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out... by stale2002 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:39PM (#29814601)

No, they should not force everyone's smartphones to be like a different smartphone.

Instead they should allow users to do what they want with their own device.

That way everyone gets what they want, with the device that they own.

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