Re:Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browse...
by heavyset_go on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:15PM
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Then don't use them instead of telling everyone else what they can or cannot use. There are plenty of apps that never get made because of anti-competitive App Store policies and fees. Nobody is forcing you to use any competition that flourishes when anti-competitive app distribution policies that artificially restrict consumer choice are dropped.
I always find it interesting that Facebook and Google get trotted out as potential boogeymen whenever the topic of greater consumer choice on all computing platforms is brought up, because such arguments conveniently downplay the very real and actually present enemy to user freedom that is Apple literally dictating what products consumers are allowed to use on their own devices.
I always find it interesting that Facebook and Google get trotted out as potential boogeymen whenever the topic of greater consumer choice on all computing platforms is brought up, because such arguments conveniently downplay the very real and actually present enemy to user freedom that is Apple literally dictating what products consumers are allowed to use on their own devices.