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Apple and Google are for-profit corporations. Im sure they would protest that they don't need saving

They aren’t a single person. There are no doubt people in those orgs who might wish to do away with all the anticompetitive strongarmsmanship in the spirit of shared technological innovation. But, its not like they have agency to change anything and the shareholders just want a growth stock not actual technological progress, so thats how they end up managed.

A lot more ideological fights boil down to internal factions pushing things one way or the other than one would think.

Smart people can make mischief visible or invisible without necessarily getting caught defecting or cooperating.

Oops did I draw that regulator’s attention to the room where we keep the bodies? Silly me.

I want an iphone but if they want to end the industry i cant buy one

Then buy 51% of shares, do a hostile takeover and stop their anti-competitive madness before it is too late.

You don't need to do radical changes, just small actions like do not steal the tips students send to teachers.

Going full-goblin mode and demanding 30% of all the money that moves through a phone is what is destroying Apple.

Students are tipping teachers now? Tipping culture really has gone off the rails.

Can someone please explain how this isn't bribery in disguise? I'd have graduated with honors if my teachers accepted tips

If you tip enough they even put your name on one of the buildings.

It's not bribery because it's not degree courses. You can go on countless apps and sites and pay to have people teach you stuff.

I don't know what the op is referring to but just a guess. I know one app, HelloTalk where I think you can get paid to teach language. Think of it as zoom + twitch but centered around language learning. You can run a channel (twitch style) and you can take private "zoom" calls for money. Apple is probably taking 30% for those calls.

To people confused about "students tipping teachers", this is the context:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/in-a-reversal-apple-is-now...

I liken good regulation as a way to prevent markets from getting stuck in a local maxima. That's generally what people mean from "saving them from themselves.

I must be missing something, how does the second sentence logically follow from the first one?

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