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Steve Troughton-Smith

@jglypt 1) because Apple refuses to follow the existing laws, and 2) because developers need all of this to fairly compete with the lock-in Apple has created.

It just so happens that it will make the platform better, too, but that's an aside.

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jack :clippy: replied to Steve

@stroughtonsmith ohh ok i didn’t know the full context - that they weren’t following current rules

I feel like some of this stuff seems unnecessary though, and not dev-related, no?

Steve Troughton-Smith replied to jack

@jglypt none of it should be necessary, but Apple has demonstrated that it is

Naman replied to jack

@jglypt @stroughtonsmith Apple has shown a pattern of terrible behaviour that is forcing regulators to take drastic action. Thankfully the EC has done a pretty decent job so far, but governments will eventually make stupid decisions (e.g. spinning out Chrome from Google)

That’s fine. It’s punishment for being an anti-competitive monopolistic business. In the future they can avoid such a result by just not being anticompetitive in the first place.

overstrike replied to jack

@jglypt @stroughtonsmith This is misinformation. The current rules are ambiguous enough to be open to interpretation.

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