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Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by qeternity on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @08:12AM (#32910611)
> You don’t have freedom of choice as to who to buy from at your local grocer, either.

Exactly, and this isn't a problem because you have plenty of choice as to which grocer you patronize.

There are plenty of mobile app stores. If you don't like Apple's, then grab an Android and use Amazon's.

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Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by ReptileMan on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @10:19AM (#32911980)
There should be a hard right that owner of general purpose devices decides what kind of software runs on them. Not the vendor.
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Re:Upcoming price and tax changes for apps and in-app purchases by qeternity on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:25AM (#32913032)
Entire business models that most of society are perfectly happy with would disappear. I would include myself in that.

I say this just so that people with strong opinions on HN remember there are two sides to every coin.

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