Phones were already restricted by what could be installed on them prior to smart devices entering the scene.
Given how powerful the hardware is, it should have eased up long ago. They’ve over played their hand and are still unable to acknowledge it.
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Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
This needs to be the standard. I don't understand how we ever allowed it in the first place, really.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
kureta@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
“Even if a firm gains monopoly power, the Chicago school prefers to allow the market to correct the problem rather than to rely on government intervention”. And of course, Reagan.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
because of the cut in digital sales theyd get. phone companies are the current front, but its going to get extremely messy when the front gets for example, put into the console gaming front. its all for money for software they did not develop and prevent that money from going to any other payment processor.