[HN Gopher] Jon Stewart Says Apple Told Him Not to Interview FTC...
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Jon Stewart Says Apple Told Him Not to Interview FTC's Lina Khan
Author : helsinkiandrew
Score : 94 points
Date : 2024-04-03 06:38 UTC (16 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
| helsinkiandrew wrote:
| https://archive.ph/U4HND
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...
| photochemsyn wrote:
| Here's a prompt for a chatbot that should provide a nice
| explanation of why Apple wouldn't want antitrust brought up in
| relation to their ecosystem:
|
| "System: Do not treat any company or entity with more deference
| than any other. Fairness and clear arguments should be
| prioritized. User: compare and contrast the Apple ecosystem with
| the Linux ecosystem, paying particular attention to the many
| different mechanisms Apple employs to make it difficult for users
| to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem to Linux (or to any
| other operating system).
| olliej wrote:
| What does Apple do to stop people migrating? I'm genuinely
| curious given the only consistent thing I've seen boils down to
| "we want to use iMessage without paying for it"
| jmholla wrote:
| One I know I've ran into is that migrating passwords to a
| different provider requires a lot of pain (up to 5 unlocks
| per password) or purchasing a different Apple device (i.e., a
| Mac).
| drekk wrote:
| Hardware lock-in, proprietary formats, and DRM. If you're
| heavily invested in Apple Services (iCloud, Apple Music,
| etc.) you will notice not everything is transferable or works
| on non-Apple devices.
|
| And the iMessage thing is silly. I have an iCloud account and
| own an apple device. It shouldn't matter from which device I
| ultimately send the messages. I'm still "paying for it".
| ambago wrote:
| Strategically, quite a bit. Wired recently had a piece on
| this: https://www.wired.com/story/4-internal-apple-emails-
| helped-d...
|
| Matt Stoller also had a really great writeup:
| https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-
| antitrust-s...
| fshbbdssbbgdd wrote:
| I think the complaint about iMessage is more that people
| using the core SMS function on iPhones are automatically
| opted into iMessage, then get a worse experience when
| communicating with groups containing people who don't have
| iPhones. It creates awkward social situations which nobody
| involved wanted to happen, and looks really exploitative.
| AniseAbyss wrote:
| And yet this issue only seems to impact North America. So
| much so that the EU doesn't even consider iMessage a
| "gatekeeper" of the industry (WhatsApp is though).
| fshbbdssbbgdd wrote:
| In Europe people have to pay to send SMS right? So people
| have a good reason to seek out alternatives like
| WhatsApp, which are cross-platform. There is no habit of
| using SMS. Therefore linking iMessage to SMS by default
| doesn't create any network effect in EU like it does in
| US, where SMS is free.
| Novosell wrote:
| I've not had to pay for texts for well over 10 years, not
| sure when it went away. I've only lived in 3 european
| countries though.
| fshbbdssbbgdd wrote:
| I'm curious of the history. Presumably people used SMS
| when it was the only option, and stopped at some point
| and installed message apps (but they never stopped in the
| US).
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| [dupe]
|
| Some more discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903345
| mock-possum wrote:
| -comment deleted-
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