Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security

Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by echelon on Monday June 27, 2022 @04:21PM (#31900248)

Apple and Google are 99% of the smartphone market. Together they set an unreasonable set of rules for mobile application development and distribution. They control search, advertising, and web technology, and there's little control individuals or other companies - even big ones - can exert against them.

They both need to be stripped of their extraordinary powers so that user freedom and proper capitalistic competition can be restored.

It's likely that any regulatory action taken against Apple and Google will force the companies to innovate more and become healthier themselves.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by threeseed on Monday June 27, 2022 @06:24PM (#31901675)

> Apple and Google are 99% of the smartphone market

Apple and Android are.

But Android is far more diverse than just Google's distribution.

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Re:Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security by NonNefarious on Monday June 27, 2022 @06:23PM (#31901660)

I detest many policies of both those companies, but neither company was created by the government. Are they not the result of "capitalistic competition?" Motorola and Blackberry shat the bed year after year, allowing the current situation to develop. Even while being called out on their incompetence by customers.

The companies who should be punished for anti-competitive behavior are the telecom companies. Not only do they restrict what devices can be activated on their networks, but they force Android users to wait months, years, or forever for them to dribble out a garbage-laden, proprietary version of the OS for every specific model of phone, one at a time.

And then there's the idiotic locking of phones; it's not just that it should be illegal, but it's also backward: U.S. phone companies lock the phones of people who are UNDER CONTRACT. Talk about stupid. These people are contractually obligated to keep paying, so who cares if they take their phones to another network? That's a net win for the phone company, since they're paying for NO service!

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