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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by rglullis on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:58AM (#31809229)
> actually there’s a huge reason: they built it, they own it.

Microsoft also built IE6 and they also built Windows. Should they have kept the power to bundle IE and to make it difficult for other browser developers?

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by GekkePrutser on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:35PM (#31813879)
The funny thing is that they're doing it all over again with edge. And nobody is getting up in arms about it.

Ps I still don't understand how "now copied from Google so it's better than that crappy earlier version we built ourselves" can be viewed in any kind of positive light :) It's basically an admission of incompetence. I mean, for a software company that's pretty bad. I just don't understand how they make it a selling point that they didn't write it themselves anymore.

Also, I don't think the actual engine was why people didn't like the old Edge. It was more the UI for me. I never had issues with the rendering engine. The could have done the same overhaul with their own engine and it would have been fine too. An extra engine would have been better for the web as an ecosystem, we're now seeing too much of the "IE Effect" with chromium.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by CodeSgt on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:24PM (#31812207)
Yes. They should.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by rglullis on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:24PM (#31812982)
Why? Can you please go ahead and explain why monopolies and anti-competitive practices should be accepted by societies?
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by CodeSgt on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:48PM (#31813282)
I answered a single question, I did not endorse anti-competative practices across the board. In this particular case, they built it therfore they should be able to choose how to distribute it and establish privacy standards as they wish.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by rglullis on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:52PM (#31813330)
What they were trying to do was considered anti-competitive practice, and "They built it therefore they can do whatever they want with it" in isolation makes absolutely no sense.
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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by CodeSgt on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:00PM (#31813438)
> answered a single question, I did not endorse anti-competative practices across the board.

I also didn't say they could do "whatever they want". Could you please be a good faith conversationalist and reply only to what was actually said, as opposed to your misinterpretation of what was said?

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by rglullis on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:37PM (#31813905)
Ok. Let's take what you said, so then maybe you can understand the problem.

> they built it therefore they should be able to choose how to distribute it

Tied selling is against the law. No matter who makes it, no matter if its free, if you make the acquisition of a product conditional on the acquisition of another one, it is illegal.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by CodeSgt on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:07PM (#31814313)
Okay? I never said it was legal.
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