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by ecefour 1097 days ago
What are you taking about?? My mobile operating system preference is iOS. If you prefer android or whatever i don’t care. Competition is good, i’m not fighting for these the battle for these cooperations an neither should you.

You could win gold with the mental gymnastics used to get to your conclusion.

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Due to vendor lock-in, and a number of competitive issues with having one company wield so much control over the personal lives of tens of millions of people, I prefer $3 trillion monopolies not to be tolerated in democratic societies. Right to choose an alternative app store and right to side load is a bare minimum for antitrust compliance and consumer protection.

Microsoft was taken to the cleaners in the 90s for far less. Many others including Ma Bell in earlier decades as well.

https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-v-microsoft-courts-findings-f...