[runawaybottle]

I’m not sure who lobbied for this legislation, but I have a gut feeling a company like Facebook is behind some of the money. What a Trojan horse, a government legislated third party Facebook App Store on your IPhone/Android that incentivizes developers to build apps that plug into the FB ecosystem. Lower percentage cut taken by Facebook, with the ultimate caveat - no privacy, all your user data is ours, oh and ads, lots of them.

Cheers. Shit, FB didn’t even have to develop their own phone. What a win.

[drenvuk]

At this point the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Let's see if whoever is doing the arm twisting can force Apple onto a path where they don't get to do every single little thing that they want.

[nemothekid]

That's interesting because I have the opposite view - I prefer Apple maintains control so that Facebook doesn't get to do every single thing they want. Facebook is strictly worse and I bemoan a future where FB is given even more data to sell on hundreds of millions of Americans.

[tremon]

How about (gasp) the government maintains control so that non-democratic bodies don't get to do every single thing they want?

[baridbelmedar]

What government are you referring to?

I suspect that not all countries (even western) would love the idea that the US government had that type of control ;)

[Valkhyr]

How about designing devices and services such that they are open and cross-compatible and the user is ultimately in control?