What sounds like is not reality.
But that still isn't the point that macos is a niche system.
I love the use of the word "dystopian". It's a word that attempts to diminish a point that is valid.
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Competition is competition. There is a free market with no barriers to entry. Consumers have chosen first android and then ios. Free market choices.
Building a go kart in your garage doesn’t make you competitor with Ford.
Are you suggesting google is ford and oppo is the kid in garage building a go kart? You may believe oppo doesn’t compete with google and that’s your opinion.
When it comes to mobile OS’s? Yeah, the analogy is a good approximation. What’s Oppo’s mobile OS market share? Must be far less than 1% since Google and Apple have over 99% market share. Oppo must have some share of that 0.1% falling under ‘Unknown.’
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I was not arguing against the fact that Windows is first and MacOS in the planet in terms of professional usage. That would be silly.
But against the inference you did: If MacOS was first and Windows second, Windows would be a more secure ecosystem and MacOS a less secure ecosystem.
Which was the conjecture to justify your iOS stance of not adopting the same kind of policies of macOS regarding App Store controls.
What you could say is that indeed the attack surface of such an ecosystem increases as more people would be using macOS. But that is not an indication of a less secure ecosystem as you conjectured … but it’s popularity.
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Free market system at work. If people don’t like a product they don’t like a product. It seems you are favorable to any regulation of industries even when the people have voted with their $$$. I am not.When it comes to mobile OS’s? Yeah, the analogy is a good approximation. What’s Oppo’s mobile OS market share? Must be far less than 1% since Google and Apple have over 99% market share. Oppo must have some share of that 0.1% falling under ‘Unknown.’
Mobile Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats
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Interesting stance. Using free market virtuosities to justify a totalitarian one clinging on it to sustain it. Outlawing themselves if necessary. Hypocritical at best.
I guess there will be always people that trade their market principles for share value?
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That’s fine, you’re free to feel however you want. I’m just glad to see some of these things trending toward my worldview. Large corporations have had too much power and control for too long.
Because what you describe is just choosing the lesser evil. And choosing the lesser evil is worse than forcing them to become better.
Libertarian no regulation on the market doesn’t work that great for consumers.
There’s a reason why EU have better consumer rights and privacy rights than USA, and that’s all from different approaches to the market
Luckily, monopoly isn’t illegal in EU and completely irrelevant for a dominant position to be true. the only thing that’s illegal is to abuse your position.
I guess people only have one finger and that’s why they can’t count above one?
Imo, there is no evil. However government thinks differently and as I said, like death and taxes this is on the way.
That’s the thing, they are being fined for how iOS. Not for how iPhones work. And we have two options iOS or android
We’ll there is tizen and one other manufacturer is developing an operating system (although I can’t recall who). So no, there isn’t two. There’s at least three, plus Linux plus one other. I know, I can hear it now. Free markets are a dead thing, eu regulates based on popularity.
But yeah government can regulate anything. But I don’t have to agree with it. Win some, lose some.
As you didn’t understand the metaphor.
Think it if a sandwich with sand(apple) in I and a different shop that also sell difrent sandwiches with difrent toppings, but they also have sand in it.
Voting with your money doesn’t work when the thing you want to change is the sand.
That’s when the government comes in and say you need to remove the sand
Free market haven’t existed for 100 years now. iOS and android(Linux) have 99% of the market. Android and google both have a dominating position and have Ben judged to abuse this position.
Eu doesn’t regulate based on popularity. The commission isn’t elected but employed and approved by parliament unanimously. It regulate based on perceived harms and evaluation of the market.
If every apple user would vote against their government or EU it would have zero impact unless they can get more than apple users to vote with them as this is a parliamentary proportional system. You can’t spoil the vote or vote tactically.
Looking at the original article, I had thought the country involved was the Netherlands, some miles south of Denmark. Just a thought. all the best.
Funny tho when it comes to forcing iMessage and other messenger platforms to be interoperable is supported by 80% of iOS users likely. So apple is doing something wrong when consumers want change but can’t pick anything else. At last apple will be forced to hold to its original promise
Together with EU’s DMA/DSA, this will end in x billions or even shutdown, if they continue to act stubborn like that. Many lawsuits, bills in different continents and countries, but all pulling the same rope.
There’s also a reason why ALL of the companies they want to pass this law for were created OUTSIDE the EU. Perhaps having EU level consumer rights and privacy rights = no companies like Apple.
Now, ask a new question.
“This could be implemented fairly soon using RTS. However, all of your messages would have to go through Google.” and see what happens once there’s even the barest understanding of the circumstances involved. The “unsure” group are at least aware that “this SOUNDS good, but what’s the catch?”
People wanting what’s impossible or impractical is nothing unique or special. If someone does a poll for something that’s possible, that they want to get an idea of if it would be financially worth doing, their poll would provide a valuable result. Kickstarter and Indiegogo depend on this kind of “polling”.
If someone does a poll for
“a mode of transportation that takes you safely from their home to <their favorite vacation spot> in less than 1 hour”,
“a strawberry tart with rat in it”
“a strawberry tart without so much rat in it”
and the majority choose the first, that doesn’t really say anything about the option, just that people like fantasies
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