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Apple might have changed terms or told them to change something and that might be why.

Less government intervention: Let them fail. System can only fix itself, if we let the flaws fall.

There are many simps who would defend the Google-or-Apple's right to get a fixed cut from a 3rd party's work while also denying any other ways for that 3rd party to profit from its own work at the same time.

Don't be that guy. Please. I don't like state capitalism. I genuinely hate digital monopoly capitalism.

I do love free market capitalism btw.

How about H&M and China?

This museum became so full of art, the only thing it was afraid of was losing access to this art...which, eventually of course, it did. Unfortunately, it had many visitors who saw everything it had, then this visitors tried to visit its web site all at once and killed it in combined DOS attack. Ironic. It could enlighten others from ignorance... but not itself.

I have seen FreeBSD and other non-mainstream OS (as in not: windows, macos, linux variants) keep going but I have never seen a "reason" to use those except for the bragging rights. Can the developpers of these OS please enlighten me why I or anyone should use them?

I didn't say without entering other boroughs. Manhattan is in NY. You can't go to Manhattan without being in NY.

I don't understand Greece's actions in this matter. Why is Greece so keen on poking Turkey rather than working together? There is no winners in this lose-lose scenario.

This is like trying to go Manhattan from NJ without entering NY. I mean... it's impossible.

(Greek nationals doesn't seem to like this comment)

Why every new OS seems like a bad skin of MacOSX or Windows 95 UI?

Please innovate...

> Do gamers like the current culture of having to have Origin, Steam, UPlay, Epic, GOGs, Blizzard Store, for no other reason than large middlemen playing Civ with marketshare and exclusives?

I don't like my game library is fragmented. But what if Steam was the only store for PC and I wasn't able to buy/play any Epic or EA games because of that? That would be worse.

Or what if the game prices had to be higher than current prices since the only place I can buy a game was steam and there was no competition?

> The fact that Apple has a rich and thriving ecosystem demonstrates that their business model works just fine.

It just shows it works for Apple. It doesn't show it works for everyone else. It's like slavery was a good system because it made the slave-owners rich and they thrived because of it.

> Apple does not actually have a monopoly

This is like saying water is not an essential liquid, there is coca cola and pepsi.

I read it "beer responsibility". It seems my subconscious mind wants beer.

This sh*t is the reason that I write offline and then copy-paste the final text only at the end.

%0 is ideal.

What if the café you went just blocks Apple's domains or your ISP decides to do that until Apple pays them "connection tax"?

You should pay an extra 5$ to use notepad with your windows and no you cannot install another software that opens txt files, if you do, we remove your windows activation.

unilateral agreements that one side can change on a whim is not something that one would call a fair agreement in the first place.

Government is not a single entity with a single mind. It is more like a coalition.

You cannot avoid the TOS. They are all designed to protect the seller not the buyer. On top of that, you -as a single consumer- has no choice to select parts of the TOS. It's a unilateral-contract by definition.

physical sale =! digital sale

retail stores have more costs than digital ones.

Apple is doing nothing. They are just limiting the experience. Devs are developing those apps and features not Apple.

iPhone users tend to buy "more" from store. Android users don't really care about apps.

It's not Apple or Google. It's users who are paying.

iPhones are not free. There are paid apps.

Apple does not allow others to have a store in their platform, so why doesn't Apple pay extra tax to keep others out rather than taxing devs to be in Apple's store?

If Apple was a Chinese company, US would have "liberated" App Store decades ago.

I always use 64x drivers for my windows 10. I don't use open source drivers but only proper ones from the manufacturers. I don't think this would expose me to more air pollution.

They patent it, sell it to Gilette and we never ever hear of this tech again.

Stopping the influx of travelers is just stupid. People "are" money. They spend that money where they are. If they are not here, then they are spending their money elsewhere.

This is just stupid. It makes 0 sense.

Education is not just watching someone explain to you what you are trying to learn. It's much more interactive and social.

If online courses can on their own be a substitute for the complete experience, then we actually don't need online courses: Just read a book and you can be brain surgeon.

Each industry always tries to hold on to max profits first. They don't have long term vision. They only have yearly balance sheets to care about.