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[–] [email protected] 328 points 1 year ago (67 children)

smells like legally actionable monopolistic behavior. apple clearly needs to be broken up... when was the last time we did that?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Serious dumb question, how is it considered a monopoly? What forms the monopoly?

The company? If so, what is the proposal? Apple HW team is separate company from SW team? Apple phones and Apple computers are separated?

The app store? There's only one Xbox store on the Xbox, one Nintendo shop on the switch or Wii. It wouldn't make sense to require supporting competition on your hardware. Did N64 games work on the Sega Genesis?

What is constitutes the monopoly and what's the proposed fix?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Allowing different markets seems like the only alternative to side loading/homebrew. It was easier to develop games back in the day when you didn't have too grovel to the device company overlords, this regulation just takes us back to that (sort of).

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