FreedomAdvocate @ FreedomAdvocate @lemmy.net.au

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So Apple should be forced to allow iPhone owners to install Win32 programs on their iPhones? PS5 games? So Sony should be forced to allow PS5 owners to install Switch games on their PS5s?

Do you see how dumb that is?

The Brainchip is trendy in Silicon Valley but doesn’t do much yet.

These guys would beg to differ:

https://thedebrief.org/neuralinks-first-human-trials-mark-one-year-of-control-through-telepathy/

I mean sure, ignoring the fact that the justice department is actively suing Apple for being a monopoly, Apple isn’t a monopoly.

They're accusing them of having a monopoly. That doesn't mean they have a monopoly. Remember, the FTC sued Microsoft to try and stop them buying Activision because they claimed that would give them a monopoly on "high powered gaming consoles" despite Playstation - the clear market leader for 5 generations straight - outselling them 3:1 at the time, and probably closer to 10:1 right now. Not every lawsuit wins. The government aren't always right. The FTC got laughed out of court for that monopoly lawsuite against MS btw. The judge tore them apart.

Also courts ruled in this very case that Apple do not have a monopoly:

Notably, Gonzalez Rogers found that Apple wasn't a monopoly, but rather a duopoly alongside Google, which was engaged in a similar legal battle with Epic over the Google Play store.

Ignoring the fact that a court of law ordered the situation being reported on, there’s no reason Apple should have to do what they are doing.

I'm saying no court or government should be allowed to order a business to allow someone to sell something on their store, or build functionality for them to be able to have their own store on a device. It's absurd.

Apple weren't ordered by the courts to put the game back on the store btw. They were ordered to not reject applications for the store based on them linking to an outside payment method. The Judge said if they rejected the application for any reason they would need to go to court AGAIN to prove that it wasn't because of that. Apple just approved it instead.

57% US market share. This decision has no bearing on any other market, and to expand the view to the global market is disingenuous.

So well outside of monopoly territory. Thanks for checking :)

You don’t have that option with the iPhone.

And you're not entitled to that option. It's apples product and they don't have to build ways for competitors to eat their lunch, nor should they. If you want a platform that allows you to install stuff from any source, get an android phone or one that does.

Yes, they do. Especially when that platform is synonymous with 57% of the hardware in use.

Why? 57% is far, FAR, below where anti-competition and anti-trust rules come in to play.

Ironic.

Says the guy who thinks 57% market share in a market with 2 players is a monopoly lol.

You can either be sitting in a seat or you can be standing, you can't be both. The people calling them "standing seats" are ridiculous. They're seats.

I don't understand why these are called "standing seats"? You sit down on them......they're just seats.

This is them using their market share in phones, to avoid competing fairly with third party software app stores like Steam.

Have you actually looked at the iPhones market share? They don't have a monopoly, far from it - Android is the market leader in phone OS's by a country mile.

And let me be frank. Your assertion that Epic is not a good company and Apple is not a good company, in the same breadth, is false equivalency horseshit.

Not at all. Epic have rules on what games can be hosted on the Epic Game Store too btw.

They use their dominant platform position to be an absolute drag on the economy at large

Apple don't have a dominant platform position. They do not have a monopoly. They do not have to allow competitors to operate on their platform.

Your entire post is based on an incorrect premise.

I don't understand why people think Apple should be forced to allow Fortnite back on their store. It's like saying Amazon should be forced to sell a product by companies that try to rip them off and break all their rules constantly so they can sue them.

Epic aren't a good company. Apple aren't a good company. Neither of them however should be forced to allow products on their store that they don't want to.

On my face in bed? Many times haha. Apart from that almost never. Have never cracked a screen or body of a phone, touch wood, in 20 years or whatever it has been of having smart phones.

I already pay for storage for one of them for other reasons (M365), but I much prefer Google Photos as a service, especially for sharing photos and albums, so I pay for that too. The third is just some crazy good deal with "iDrive Photos" where it's $5/year for unlimited upload from my phone haha.

Also in case anything happens to one of my accounts, especially since one is tied to my Xbox account and I have kids.