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So Ford and Tesla are monopolies?
If you buy a physical device from them and they control what you can install on it, yes.
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What if the local laws are bad? I think it would be good to disobey Turkey's law that requires removal of posts criticizing the current leadership.
Agreed, but with many privacy and freedom laws I would agree. I don't think they take it nearly far enough; If I buy hardware, it is mine, and they should open up the means to put whatever on it I want. No one has the balls for that I guess but I would want them to enforce that.
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If you buy a physical device from them and they control what you can install on it, yes.
Hilarious opinion. Of course they’re not, Tesla and Ford don’t have a dominant market share anywhere and have a tremendous amount of competitors. I think it would help you to take a look at what the word monopoly means.
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which is what we're seeing with Apple Apple is the result of a broad class of regulations: IP laws. Would Apple even exist without IP laws? I doubt it.
That's besides the point. If Apple isn't viable as a business without the ability to misinterpret copyright law, then they shouldn't exist at all.
A proper laissez-faire capitalist economy would not have any legally-enforced monopolies at all. That means no IP laws whatsoever!
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Thank you for your response :) I would push back a bit on the ideological comment, just to say that ideological acceptance of regulation is also probably wrong. This is different from a philosophical opposition/acceptance of political authority, although it often appears the same. I think it's fairly obvious that the base prerequisites for market economies are property rights and some form of legal system to handle d…
> for example the big companies are lobbying for regulation on AI to help cement their position at the top And pray tell, how did that work out? It didn't. The worst of it came from OpenAI snatching up long-term federal contracts, but it's not illegal or anticompetitive to waste taxpayer money on debt-encumbered AI outfits. You're citing an example that works against your broader point. > doesn't mean that it's possi…
Re. OpenAI et al, they actually work with the US government to help shape the regulatory landscape, and interestingly enough since Google jumped out ahead they are now pushing for a lighter model. I imagine Google is pushing for heavier regulation since that tends to be their M.O.
Also I don't have anarchist economics - anarchists don't believe in property rights or markets, and they certainly don't understand economics. And I certainly don't put any stock in what right leaning American politicians or their courts think or say.
Apple should dump their Product Managers and hire the EU bureaucrats directly then we will finally see improvements and innovations again.
Personally, I discovered it in Android when I recently bought Xiaomi buds for $15 (in Brazil, where this kind of stuff is much more expensive), took them out of the case, and my phone instantly asked whether I wanted to connect. One click, done. Afterward, every time I took those earbuds out, they were _instantly_ connected, and I had access to their individual battery levels in the system UI. These didn't have geolocation, but that's because I literally bought the cheapest earbuds I could find that would be delivered in 24 hours.
Has anyone had bad experiences with the Google Fast Pair (proprietary) technology? (Like Apple defenders here say would happen if you “open up” the proprietary protocol for everyone to implement).
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Hilarious opinion. Of course they’re not, Tesla and Ford don’t have a dominant market share anywhere and have a tremendous amount of competitors. I think it would help you to take a look at what the word monopoly means.
How many vendors can you buy software for your Tesla from? How many vendors can you buy software for your Dell from?
Not many. That's fine. Just buy another car. There's plenty of competition in the space.
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How many vendors can you buy software for your Tesla from? How many vendors can you buy software for your Dell from?
> How many vendors can you buy software for your Tesla from? Not many. That's fine. Just buy another car. There's plenty of competition in the space.
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This is already part of the Bluetooth spec that Apple didn't implement: multipoint pairing.
This is wrong - Apple did implement multipoint pairing. I’ve had Bose headphones and cheapo Amazon headphones and both switched perfectly between various Apple devices.