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by saurik 863 days ago
No: the real problem is people like you who would rather defend Apple's anticompetitive practices--leaving Apple (or, at best, an oligopoly formed by Apple/Google) their own world dominance which I guess you just want to ignore for a moment--than to also fight to stop Google's; the correct thing to do now is to first celebrate this win and then immediately begin working on similar (or even stronger) attacks on Google's monopoly with the momentum, not insist that no one should be allowed to make progress against Big Tech because any first battle one choose to fight might cause a different front elsewhere to destabilize :/. #GoogleIsNext
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If that moment ever comes, the damage will already be done. All those dim-witted web developers will only support Chrome, and your data will belong to Google. People who supported this have been useful idiots.
Tone it down. Some people believe you can challenge the anti-competitive behavior of Google and Apple (in any order, including tackling the Apple problem first), and that you don't have to choose the lesser of two evils. It's a perfectly reasonable opinion. You're welcome to disagree, but it doesn't mean the people you're disagreeing with (including EU regulators) are a bunch of blithering "useful idiots". Regulators have taken down larger monopolies than Google before. See for instance the breakup of Bell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System