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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by sixstringtheory on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:38PM (#32988043)
> Because they build the software and the hardware?

Yes

> Apple's restrictions on iOS are also anti-competitive

Why, exactly? Should Subway be forced to allow McDonald's to sell Big Macs inside of each of their locations? That's competition, not anticompetitive.

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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by ColonelPhantom on Monday September 26, 2022 @08:48PM (#32990479)
The iOS situation is closer to Subway forbidding me from taking my food home and putting McDonald's sauce on it, even though I bought the damn sandwich.
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Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse... by OkayPhysicist on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:15PM (#32989308)
Should McDonald's be able to tell their franchisees that they can't sell Whoppers? That seems like the more apt comparison, and put like that it's hard to see why Microsoft would be in the wrong.
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