[Shoue]

> This is a little bit overdramatic, given that they only exert that kind of control over the frameworks that they wholly own and control.

Would you be fine with being taxed for breathing if two or three companies hypothetically bought all the forests in your town or even state? After all, they own the things producing the oxygen you breathe, it only seems reasonable that you'd pay them.

Sometimes, maybe it's not reasonable for companies to justify their bad behaviour simply because they "own" something.

> Nobody ever accused Microsoft or Sony of "getting to decide what games were allowed to be made" because they strictly controlled what works are allowed on their platforms. There are always other platforms one can publish on.

I often just see the "consoles aren't general purpose" cop-out here but I'd go further and say: we should -- we should accuse them of being anticompetitive too.

[geraldwhen]

Completely off topic, but most oxygen comes from ocean plankton, not trees.