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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by aprilthird2021 on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:20PM (#38607964)
Walled garden is fine. Charging exorbitant fees because you've strong armed any and all competition out of the game isn't.

A reasonable fee with 0 competition would be fine. No fee, while hiking the prices of the devices would be fine.

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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by EA-3167 on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:29PM (#38608065)
How can you seriously say "any and all competition" when Android and Google exist?
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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by dns_snek on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:55PM (#38608293)
You're looking at it from the user's perspective, this case is about B2B.

Imagine you're working on a hardware product that can communicate with your other devices over Bluetooth. How exactly do you avoid Apple in this scenario?

You can't, or you won't be in business for very long. You need to develop an app because Apple intentionally gimps their browser, and to release the app you must agree to their terms.

They're in a dominant position that allows them to dictate unfavorable terms to the rest of the industry which, among other things, stifles innovation.

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Re:Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app... by skydhash on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:07PM (#38609313)
> Imagine you're working on a hardware product that can communicate with your other devices over Bluetooth. How exactly do you avoid Apple in this scenario?

I can't think of nothing that is paired over Bluetooth that couldn't be done better with some other medium. Even Apple use a superset of Bluetooth to get its devices working properly together.

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