The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”

Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by PartiallyTyped on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:12PM (#37769299)

I fail to see why apple should be split.

Nobody forces people to buy macs, very few do, and as for iPhones, there are alternatives and apple doesn’t have a monopoly over the phone industry.

You can very well use icloud on other OSes too.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by rafaelmn on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:24PM (#37769473)

Apple doesn't even hide the tax.

The shit they get to pull with safari is beyond IE level - they straight up don't allow alternative browsers (beyond WebKit) on 50% of mobile market.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by SSLy on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:50PM (#37769831)

Not for long (* insert EU flag here *)

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by slikrick on Monday October 09, 2023 @09:10AM (#37820105)

you can't use 99% of apple services on Android. no apple maps, no find my, no iMessage, no apple calendar, no reminders.

nobody forces people to use windows either, but yet a company having 60% of the global phone market is pretty comparable considering that's literally probably more phones than people actively using windows daily

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