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Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by olliej on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:32PM (#30816949)
What market abuse? And what do you split up? Apple is a hardware company, all the software they write is purely to make the hardware they sell attractive to consumers.
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Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by emptysongglass on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:21AM (#30820458)
Apple is now a services company: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273179/apple-icloud-itu...
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Re:Apple forced to allow sideloading and 3rd-party app store... by spacemanmatt on Sunday March 27, 2022 @09:05AM (#30819909)
> all the software they write is purely to make the hardware they sell attractive to consumers.

This view of Apple as a pure-platform company does not comport with reality

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