Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif...
by Retric on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:59AM
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That's small potentates compared to what MS was doing. Windows was actively updated to break other browsers and then IE was actively leveraged to kill off competing browsers and server side web technology. For years the only thing that survived their onslaught was OSS.
And that's on the tech side of things, business wise they would do even less ethical things. If Apple bought Briar specifically to kill it because it ran on Android then you might get a taste of what MS was getting up to.
Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif...
by greedo on Monday March 04, 2024 @12:32PM
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Dr Dos was a perfect example of MS trying to squash competitors. MS didn't tolerate ANYONE competing with them.
Re:Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotif...
by jwells89 on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:55AM
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Platform restrictions aside, maybe I’m missing something but requiring a permanent open socket seems like an awfully brittle design. There’s a lot of network conditions which phones are highly prone to that’d make apps with that requirement barely functional.
This doesn't just affect iOS users - if I want to use Briar to communicate, it's just impossible to involve anyone who has an Apple device. They don't need a total monopoly for this to be anti-competitive. They've made it so that if you have 10 devices and you want some feature like AirDrop, it's impossible for that feature to function unless Apple wrote it, because 4 of the devices are Apple devices and Apple monopolizes all network code to those devices.