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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by wiseowise on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:22PM (#39785156)
Even better: no stupid analogies and just talk about topic at hand.

> Should Google be forced by the government to include support for formats in Android that are used by Apple such a HEIF and HEIC? What about Microsoft and Linux?

Yes, please.

> As an iPhone user I do not want government interference in a market place that has been kept mostly free of malware precisely because it keeps out the riff-raff.

Citation needed.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by jiggawatts on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:46PM (#39785373)
> Yes, please.

Those are patented formats. This would make Android no longer open source in the truly free software sense.

Are you sure you want this kind of precedent on the books?

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by wiseowise on Friday March 22, 2024 @02:28AM (#39787911)
Whatever runs on Pixel is not AOSP anyway.
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