I really hope Epic wins the lawsuit against Apple and that the laws being announced in the US Senate/House get passed. I also hope the EU start pushing against this kind of stuff more.
Apple and Google have too much control.
Apple and Google have too much control.
My opinion is that Google, and Apple are Bundling/Tying at multiple levels, and using monopoly power in a way that stifles the market, and impedes innovation.
This is some good stuff on some of these issues https://www.justice.gov/atr/chapter-5-antitrust-issues-tying...
I will predict for you the future of that, based on the past.
The next people in line who control most devices are the carriers.
They will set up app stores that are required on their phones (since the laws will not prevent this).
Each will have exclusive apps that require their app store be installed (and will not be available on other phones).
Things will be a mishmash.
Nobody will be actually happy.
The carriers also have great lobbyists, and are really great at doing this kind of thing.
It will take a long time to undo it.
I’ve heard people say that about true compromise…
It seems like there are extremes, carriers were abusing their positions before Apple came up with iPhone and app store and wrangled power away from carriers. Now they have lived long enough to become the villain… it might be time to reset matrix again and work towards a better outcome.
I don't actually disagree with your assessment of what happened, but i don't have the hope people here do. I have watched the ebb and flow too many times, and lived in DC too long :)
I also think the hope is amazingly misplaced. Rarely, if ever, do complex systems like this change in the desired way as a result of trying to "fix them" directly. Sometimes they change, sometimes the inertia keeps them in the same state. But it rarely, if ever, does this kind of change have the intended effect.
They even teach this in complex system theory.
The Monkey's Paw, I take it.
Even if the horrors you suggest are true, consumers would have options to get around them, whilst right now, a single monopoly, Google, controls the entire playing field, and actively attacks anyone who tries to offer a path around (Epic, for instance).
The "ISP bogeyman" issue constantly feels hollow in tech circles considering there's a ton of actual competition in the provider space, and a complete and unassailable monopoly in the tech platform space.
Google has never restricted sideloading. Android 12 even enables sideloading further by allowing third party app stores to auto update.
AOSP exists. Third party roms exist. All of the devices sold by Google can be unlocked to install third party roms.
LineageOS doesn't exist because 'a complete and unassailable monopoly' allows them to.
AOSP is not meaningfully existing on any device sold today.
The fact you can hack your device doesn't change the monopoly Google operates that 99.9% of Android devices are trapped in.
It does prevent this. All apps and app stores included with the device must be disableable is in the language of the bill.
That won't get you the functionality!
"Why use another store, when Google and Apple are required by law to have all apps?"
They aren't going to force Google and Apple to have all apps?
Stopping the stores from demanding that all apps have no method of payment except via their payment services (and its 30% cut) would be good. It would solve the situation in TFA at least.
That isn’t at all what is being proposed
House reps probably aren't setting their legislative agenda about monopolistic power based off of what the intelligence community would like the most.