• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Repeating my own comment back to me in a way that doesn’t even make sense doesn’t make you witty, it makes you look like someone who doesn’t know how to interract with people like an adult.

      You never addressed my comment at all. Apple isn’t abusing their dominant market position by putting what they want on their own phones.

      Google is abusing their market position by forcing other OEMs to do what Google wants, knowing they have no other choice.

      Do you understand now?

      If you want Apple to be punished, write some new laws, because they aren’t breaking the one Google is.

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        Writing a comment that conveys absolutely nothing doesn’t make you witty, it makes you look like you have nothing to say to defend your position. Repeating it back is an attempt to illustrate that to you.

        You never addressed my comment at all.

        I clearly did. You, on the other hand, did not address my response.

        Apple is not using their market position to force anything on anybody or any OEM

        Apple isn’t abusing their dominant market position by putting what they want on their own phones.

        They’re abusing their market position by disallowing any software that’s not distributed according to Apple’s demands and forcing them to pay their exorbitant Apple tax for the great honor of distributing software on their platform. This unnecessarily drives up the costs for consumers and developers in order to further line Apple’s pockets.

        I honestly don’t know any way to explain this other than the way I already have: You can’t call Google anti-competitive for trying to control the way they deal with alternative app stores, and then claim Apple does nothing wrong when they don’t even allow other app stores in the first place? Like, I just don’t understand how that computes in your brain…

        You can’t have a successful Android device without the Play store,

        You literally can’t have a device at all with the Apple Store…

        The fact that Google is getting punished and Apple is not is not just hypocritical but also motivates other businesses to emulate Apple’s “walled garden” ideology.

        they aren’t breaking the one Google is.

        They’re breaking the exact same ones, in regards to how software is distributed in their ecosystem.

        Do you understand now?

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          I really don’t know how you aren’t grasping this.

          Apple isn’t forcing anybody to do anything, because they make their own device. (iPhones are made by Apple).

          Google is forcing OEMs to do all sorts of things, because they have no choice but to use Android/the play store. (Other phones, e.g. Samsung’s Galaxy S series, aren’t made by Google).

          Do you understand? I’m not sure I can make this any more simple. What’s going on in your head that’s not letting you understand this?