True, however the App Store offers a lot of benefits. Despite being the recognised platform of iOS, it is highly regarded for its quality and security, and developers will continue to take advantage of advertising opportunities. There may even be an opportunity to sell on both stores.
Yes it will be great to pay for $2,000 inkjets you use whatever ink you want yay freedom. People have this concept that they will get a cheap device and never have to give the manufacturer a dime again. The wake up call will be when they price said items to match.
That's more objectivism, but it would be disastrous. I think socialism can work, as long as it's more democratic socialism and less authoritarian socialism. One thing is clear, capitalism sure isn't working in it's current form.
One reason is that an alternative browser engine could make web apps as powerful as regular iOS apps, which would circumvent the need to go through the app store. Of course that’s something that Apple doesn’t want. It’s similar to why they don’t allow emulators on the app store.
Because that argument worked so well for Microsoft in their antitrust suits when they locked down web browsers to just Internet Explorer right? "Just go to the other Duopoly, stop criticizing fruit computer company!"
That is the complete opposite of what it means. Theodore Roosevelt lead trustbusting efforts on the railroad monopolies for a reason, as when certain players get so big it stiffles innovation as any semblance of other companies attempting to grow. We already have a real world example of what happens when there's no regulation, it was called Trickle Down Economics, AKA Reaganomics in the 80s. The idea being that if you let the major players do whatever they want and get bigger that it benefits everyone.
A sound idea in theory, but in practice as we learned from Reaganomics it doesn't work. All Trickle Down Economics did was make the rich more powerful while the lower and middle class got nothing in return.
Without any kind of regulation you get a cyberpunk dystopia. Just look at South Korea, where Samsung has market dominance over pretty much every industry there, even having seats in the government.
We're not talking phone manufacturers, but mobile operating systems. In the early days of smartphones we had competition. Besides iOS and Android there was Windows Phone and FireOS, both of which were unfortunately shortlived due to the fact they did not have the app libraries that iOS and Android had with how late to market they were, and both costed Microsoft and Amazon billions. Your only choice for a mobile OS is either iOS on iPhone, or a different flavor of Android. That's not competition, that's a duopoly. Either be at the mercy of Apple with their OS app distribution guidelines, or at the mercy of Google's.
See again above the fallacy of trickle down economics.
It's actually the developers that have the choice NOT the consumers. The EU is not requiring developers to make their products available on every platform and in every store. If the developer only wants to make it available in a single store on a single platform...they can do that.
And paying the EU government fines fixes this how?
Freedom to use another platform or create one yourself.
2008 included UK, 2022 would have not, add $3.2 trillion to 2022.
Apple has no such problem. The profit margin on the physical goods is incredibly high, and revenue from electronics does not spill over to services and vice versa. The App Store is an entirely different business from the hardware.
What?! California is great. The only things California is regulating are things that need to be regulated.
But look at the desktop OS system that is supposedly the "better" competitive approach: Windows has 70% of the market, macOS has around 20% and the remaining 10% includes Linux etc. It doesn't really make sense to say that mobile is somehow anti-competitive relative to operating systems on desktop.
The problem with that: the EU is treating the desktop OS market like it's the healthier competitive market and in reality it's significantly worse than mobile.
Most estimates have the 2017 tax cuts adding up to $2 trillion to the national debt by 2025. They did not cause an increase in tax revenue as Republicans predicted.
www.taxpolicycenter.org
Don't worry and don't push it cause we will have to read it here how having a single cable operator in the neighborhood is actually a good thing for you because regulation is bad! I mean government regulation is bad but corporation regulation of legally unregulated areas is super good and fun for everybody.
Thankfully the reasons for Brexit are being increasingly clear. The EU wants control of everything; economy, law, it wants to create an EU military, and yet Europeans and others, are flooding to the UK?
True, but I think the bigger issue might be denominating GDP in dollars as the USD/EUR exchange rate has gone from its high point of about 1.5 to about 1.1 in that period, so denominating it in that currency rather than EUR will obscure changes in economic output.
