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Re:Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds by rangestransform on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:41AM (#40681363)
- Products that significantly benefit from vertical integration like Tesla and iPhone

- Apple throwing around their 800lb gorilla weight to have better user privacy and bankroll TSMC’s latest process node

- Apple being able to afford gigantic SoC dies in iPhone, compared to android where manufacturers nickel and dime on the SoC and users get flaming pieces of shit clocked to high heaven

Re:Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds by CuriouslyC on Friday June 14, 2024 @02:57PM (#40683811)
All those things could be accomplished by a group of businesses entering collective purchasing agreements, without giving one company the power to punish governments.
Re:Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds by rangestransform on Friday June 14, 2024 @08:07PM (#40686367)
i like that apple has the power to punish the EU over chat control, for example