| > seems to boil down to not letting tech companies block who they want to block. I just want competition. The problem is that when the market is already consolidated, you need one to get the other. Suppose you want to compete with the major phone platforms. Your biggest problem is apps. No apps, no users; no users, no app developers. A way to fix this is to create a cross-platform app development framework. Developers would love that -- write your app once and it runs on both the existing major platforms and any new ones? Great! Except that the incumbents block it. You can't create a competing app store for the existing platforms, which means you can't leverage that into a competing platform. But without competition there, they can also do this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275 So there goes your competition for Twitter and Facebook. Constrain them from limiting competing app stores. Works a lot better than doing nothing. |