[echelon]

You know what affects them more?

A monopoly like Apple, hoarding and gatekeeping the tech, raising their prices. Making 3rd party apps and services more expensive because they have less margin due to Apple taxes.

That's way worse than some invented boogyman.

[dpkonofa]

Apple is not a monopoly so the rest of your statement is meaningless drivel. Also, if I recognize you from other threads, you tend to be pretty sensationalist so forgive me if I feel like you're the one selling a boogeyman.

[echelon]

> rest of your statement is meaningless drivel

To your sensibilities.

> I recognize you from other threads

Good. I keep telling folks to call their reps on Apple, Google, and the whole lot. These companies salt the earth for the rest of us.

Apple taxes 50+% of the mobile application development market with outrageous fees and prevents freedom outside of tightly set, draconian rules.

They're clearly bad for the market with their ever worsening device repairability and increasingly anti-consumer behavior.

Microsoft got handed a new one for behavior one tenth as bad.

The DOJ needs to break Apple in two.