[ndriscoll]

Antitrust law exists exactly to prevent companies from making their own ecosystem/walled garden that competitors cannot sell into. Product tying (forcing you to buy product B in order to buy product A) falls under that umbrella. Game console are not magical in this regard.

[tonyhart7]

Yeah, thats my point

game console has been doing it for 20+ years and they are fine, apple has doing it for 10+ years and they are fine

Google wants doing it???? they are fine to do that. if you have problem then you are hypocrite

[ndriscoll]

Lots of us have a problem with all of those things, and would like the government to enforce the law. I've never bought an Apple product, and the last game console I owned was a PS2 when I was a child.

[tonyhart7]

damn building close source software is illegal now?????

[ndriscoll]

I don't see how that's related (e.g. Android is FOSS but can use attestation for monopolization), but I do think we ought to make the law require products that contain software come with source as a consumer protection measure.