• Avicenna@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    If some company did this with computers 20 years ago they would probably go bankrupt the next year. This is what happens when tech oligarchies are allowed.

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      4 days ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty crazy comparing this to some of the stuff Microsoft got in trouble for with Internet Explorer back in the '90s.

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        3 days ago

        The main difference is they (Apple) have been clear with their design choice since the beginning and they had their own market. Google is imposing this change on many users who did not want such an ecosystem to start with. But I suppose the market share of people who won’t care about this will be large enough that they will survive, because they are a tech monopoly.