Apples business isn’t privacy. Apples business is selling privacy.
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madis@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoOf those companies, Apple seems like the best option, though I am not fully sure why they’d want to, they already have a browser with a relative market share dominance.
Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
madis@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I don’t disagree, it’s more of a matter of least evil.
rothaine@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Is Microsoft even eligible? Wasn’t their anti-trust suit over IE basically about this same thing?
gamer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Lol. Lmao, even.
Sorry for the flippant comment, but it’s so incredibly wrong that I need to highlight the ridiculousness. TBF to you, it’s a common misconception due to Apple marketing’s lies, and our regulatory agencies unable/unwilling to do anything about companies that lie like Apple does.
Microsoft would be even worse.
The best outcome IMO is to kill Chrome, Edge, AND Safari, and force users to scatter and find an alternative on their own. There will need to be some way to prevent all big tech from trying to compete here too (Facebook, Amazon, etc), as those are incentivized to monopolize exactly like Google did, and we shouldn’t have to wait another 2 decades for the government to do something about it.
There will be some growing pains as people initially end up on shitty/scammy browsers, but eventually the market will do its thing and browser devs will compete for marketshare.