Comment by _heimdall
3 years ago
The answer doesn't always have to be larger governments and more oversight.
Users can switch to another OS if they really cared that Apple refuses to use industry standards, hamstrings their own mobile browser to bolster app sales, and violates antitrust laws with their ban on third party browser rendering engines.
The reality is that leveraging closed networks to gain effective monopolies (with all their known harmful effects) is a winning strategy with little counter strategies.
Users cannot switch to another OS because if they do they won't be able to communicate with social circle. This is also completely artificial because the networks have otherwise pretty much the same feature sets and are only distinguished by their accreted userbase.
Concurrent cannot compete because they can't gain enough users to get a critical mass
I wager that no single entity should have so many captive users.
Regulation is clearly in order
> I wager that no single entity should have so many captive users.
100% agree here, we've collectively picked convenience and shiny objects over everything else so often that we're left with a handful of companies with way too much power and reach
> Regulation is clearly in order
I disagree, or at least hope,this isn't our best or only option left. If it is the only thing that would work though, at least its something