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by wayneftw 1779 days ago
> provided you also offer Sign In With Apple.

They are using their app store monopoly to gain a foothold in the single sign-on business. You could try to claim that there's no business there but look at how Microsoft got spanked for giving away a free browser. Now the Apple has over half the phones in the United States, I'm looking forward to them getting spanked very soon hopefully.
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meepmorp 1779 days ago
> You could try to claim that there's no business there but look at how Microsoft got spanked for giving away a free browser.

Yeah, it's practically the same thing if you just ignore the basic facts of the case.

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wayneftw 1779 days ago
Oh? Microsoft got in trouble for using the Windows monopoly to 1.) gain market share for their free browser and 2.) forcing OEMs to not sell alternative operating systems so they could keep their Windows monopoly. You can read all about that here [0]

That's exactly the kind of behavior that Apple is exhibiting here.

It's pretty easy to come along and say that I'm "ignoring the basic facts of the case" though without presenting any facts of your own to back that up. So let's hear your take now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

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zapzupnz 1779 days ago
They got in trouble for lock in. Their integration of Internet Explorer practically made out the de facto implementation and made Windows the de facto operating system on machines.

But again, Sign In with Apple sits in addition to the other offerings, it doesn’t replace them, and in no case are developers expected to be unable to offer regular sign in with email.

To my mind, you’re not wrong, but making a rather different argument.

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wayneftw 1778 days ago
It's not different. On Windows, everybody could always install a different browser or OS. Nobody stopped them from doing that.
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