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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by panzagl on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:03PM (#30197062)
The analogy is saying there are malls in two different towns- there's only one mall in Androidville, and if I want to go to the one in Appletown I have to sell my house and all the stuff I bought at the Androidville mall and move there. Trying to argue its not a monopoly is engaging in the worst type of pointless semantic argument.
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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by ribosometronome on Thursday February 03, 2022 @02:46PM (#30197741)
>Trying to argue its not a monopoly is engaging in the worst type of pointless semantic argument.

So, you think this bill is a waste of time, then?

If Apple has a monopoly, no legislation is needed as we already have laws to address it. Epic's lawsuit failed specifically because they couldn't prove Apple was a monopoly. This legislation's existence is specifically predicated on that there could be issues that might be worth addressing outside of monopolies.

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Re:App store bill sails out of Senate Judiciary Committee by panzagl on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:28PM (#30198328)
No, I support the bill. I guess I should have typed 'monopoly that is not already covered adequately by current anti-trust regulation', but at some point you have to stop.
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