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Keep downvoting me, fanboys! Long live the resistance!
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How about the Apple Music store being embedded into the default Music App? Blatantly anti-competitive against Spotify.
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I can read, and you’ve already written that. But there are logical bits missing between your premise and your conclusion. Is there any measurable effect? Is say WhatsApp adoption rate significantly lower on iOS because of this? How much more anticompetitive is it than just bundling a SMS app with every phone? Anything a company does to improve its market share is a reduction of competition, the threshold for anticomp…
How about the Apple Music store being embedded into the default Music App? Blatantly anti-competitive against Spotify.
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How so? What is their nefarious plan and how do they go about it? If you are the one seeing the truth and you want to be taken seriously you need to do better than just throw around words like “monopoly” and “anti-competitive” with no justification whatsoever.
Bundling of iMessage and SMS = reduction in competition by integration.
Going back to the Microsoft example, Microsoft got into trouble, not because they were bundling a web browser with an OS (which would be stupid to not have), but because they were forbidding OEMs to include any other browser on pain of revoking their agreements. That is anticompetitive.
If Apple were forbidding the installation of WhatsApp because it competes with iMessage, that would be the most direct equivalent to what Microsoft was sanctioned for.
Anticompetitive behavior is a legal term with a specific definition, it does not apply to software that decreases a competitor's potential marketshare only by way of doing something a competitor could be doing on their own.
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How about the Apple Music store being embedded into the default Music App? Blatantly anti-competitive against Spotify.
Right, but that wasn’t the point you were making. I wasn’t arguing that Apple was never anti-competitive.
Bundling by a platform seller/maker should be regulated.
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Everyone I know goes once a week. once every two weeks and you'd start to run out of fresh produce in week 2.
Interesting. I was going once every three weeks to reduce Covid risk, household of two, normal American-sized fridge with freezer, cooking six nights a week. We would run out of vegetables during the third week, but it had the advantage that we ate all the veggies!