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by CivBase 670 days ago
When you're a part of a duopoly on a product that is necessary for participating in the modern economy with as much friction as iOS has for switching to the only viable competitor... what makes it so fundamentally different from the web?

IMO they can either keep the duopoly and deal with regulation or they can keep full control of their platform. One or the other. Same goes for Android.
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jonhohle 670 days ago
So if a business mode is successful, regardless of whether it’s actively thwarted competition or acted anticompetitively, it should be regulated?

It’s not the web. It’s not a PC. It’s a sandboxed console.

> MO they can either keep the duopoly and deal with regulation or they can keep full control of their platform.

Then they’ll keep they’re platform and not be regulated ;-) (I know what you meant).

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CivBase 670 days ago
> So if a business mode is successful, regardless of whether it’s actively thwarted competition or acted anticompetitively, it should be regulated?

Yes. If a product becomes essential for participation in the economy and lacks substantial competition, regulation is the only mechanism we have to protect the people. Why should it matter how it got there?

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