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Discussion of Apple topics here on HN almost always gets reduced to the argument that Apple is not a monopoly, so what they are doing is OK. I want to present an alternative viewpoint. It's not a monopoly issue, it is an anti-competitive issue.
In Canada, we have three major cell carriers. None of them has a monopoly, or anything close to it. None of them has even 50% market share.

You can have a 10 GB smartphone plan with Rogers for $75. If you don't like that, you can switch to Bell's 10 GB plan for $75. If you don't like Bell, of course you can switch to Telus's 10 GB plan for, wait for it, $75.

The Big 3 operate smaller brands with fewer bells and whistles and lower costs. You can get a 4 GB cell plan from Koodo (Telus subsidiary) for $50, or from Fido (Rogers subsidiary) for $50, or from Virgin Mobile (Bell subsidiary) for $50.

Sometimes one of them has promotional pricing, like $45 instead of $50 for 4GB. The other two offer the same pricing for the same duration. Sometimes one of them increases their prices by $5 a month citing reasons such as infrastructure investments, lower Canadian dollar value, or inflation. The other two increase their prices by the same amount a couple of days later.

And none of this is collusion in the legal sense. They don't gather in smoke-filled rooms and decide how to screw over their customers. There is not back-channel communication whatsoever. And it is not because the competition is so perfect the prices have been commoditized. In fact, Canada has some of the highest cell plan prices in the world, even adjusting for factors such as population density and GDP.

It's just that the big companies have decided to stop competing. If you live in, say Alberta or Ontario or BC, you have three options and they are all the same overpriced crap. Cell carriers in Canada are not a monopoly, but you don't have to be a monopoly to harm customers with anti-competitive behaviour. Apple and Google, Android and iOS do not have a monopoly or a collusion agreement. But they are harming the customers all the same.
So your argument is that vetting dozens of Fortnite releases a year, hosting and distributing them (terabytes a day) across hundreds of international stores in dozens of languages, providing secure installation and other APIs, etc, etc, etc, should be a free device Apple provides Fortnite?

Interesting.
It didn't go well for Rachel Dolezal, however that did happen a couple of years back.
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I posted my email address in a comment yesterday to help me communicate with another commenter, but now it's exposed to the world and being indexed by Google. I didn't realize edits were time limited.

I REALLY don't want this email tied to the HN account I'm using.
> The Justice Department accused Yale of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which the university is required to comply with as a condition of receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer funding.

I wonder how difficult it would be for Yale to just say "no thank you" to all of that gov't funding. Especially if they believed that the justice department finding was politically motivated.
The whole undergraduate system in the US needs dismantling and rebuilding. it is costly, wasteful, discriminatory and largely about signaling than any skills. If race-based admissions moves to STEM graduate school, then we're in trouble.

https://medium.com/swlh/y-combinator-not-lambda-school-is-un....
I think this is called tacit collusion.
You see something like this with gasoline pricing - major brands will have "competing" stations across the street from each other, but their prices moves in lock step without a race to the bottom.

Memory vendors have explicitly colluded in the past, but they really didn't need to - they just needed to copy their competitors' posted pricing. Presumably that is what they do now.

If there are high barriers to new competitors entering the market, then the situation is unlikely to change.
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Multiple posts discussing various stages of this on the front page, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24147486
Sony also 'officially' (in the sense that it was targeting hackers/developers) supported Linux on the PS2. IIRC, it was a $200 item which included a hard drive, network adapter and DVD with Linux on it.
How about when things move to Apple Silicon? Will they then not be just as locked down as iOS iPadOS? Subjected to the same limited app store?
The higher education sorting hat has really got to be disbanded. It is increasingly at odds with the 21st century.
So then they should allow a competing app store and Apple can just heavily curate their own app store.
Because clearly BMW sells it's own special washer fluid for $40 a bottle.
This is correct. Earlier today they pushed a Fortnite update adding the option to use "Epic direct payment" which charged 20% less. In response Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store, which then triggered this law suit to be filed.
I don't think it's the effect described in the article. It probably wouldn't be noticeable. It may be that by melting more of the ice below it removes all roughness of the surface where there could be air which is working as an insulation. Additionally, depending on details, by melting more ice it could probably make exchange of heat faster between the surface down below.
And have the same issue with Google Play? They also take a 30% cut.
How come all the content you write "I am 15" ?
In my opinion, more competition is better for the consumer, even if these is a slight hit to convenience. That's simply the nature of more choices -- the freedom to choose results in the burden of choosing.

But obviously I cannot make a blanket statement on all consumers since many of them do value a small increase in convenience very highly.
>> And electric car charging at home works because only a handful of people do it. When every car on the road is plugged in every night the distribution networks to every street will need to be massively upgraded.

> The average driver clocks around 10k miles/ year, a little under 30 miles/ day. That's less power use than a typical refrigerator. Much less than air conditioning a 2 story house in California. The energy grid can handle that.

And with delayed charging and Vehicle-to-grid, it could even be beneficial for the grid.
The problem is that "my" device is not allowed have non-Apple App Store.

If Apple allowed others to create App Stores, then there would be no problem, but hardware + iOS + App Store are inseparable.

It's like U.S. citizenship forbidding non-Walmart shopping.
I wonder what the makeup of the 14% of the incoming freshman class that are legacy’s is...
I came to the same conclusion. I wanted to write ADRs since the first time I read about them a few years back. Thinking more about it I concluded that commit messages are the right place to document this. You can find the commit for a line of code and you can just read git log.

If people tried both and have opinions please share. So far I am ok with commit messages even if they tend to be long.

Another thing. How do you people think ADRs compare to design docs? IMO design docs are for gathering feedback and ADRs are for documenting decided things, there is some overlap.
Java edition will work on all x86 machines
Thanks for the correction. I think the proper term I was looking for was "corporate capitalism"
You should read more about a definition of a monopoly. It does not mean 100% of market share.
I mean their in-game currency has essentially no cost for them whatsoever, any revenue they gain from it is pure profit.
Are you joking? I’ve been selling in the App Store for nearly a decade, haven’t had an app ranked in any chart for at least 5 years, do zero advertising, yet the checks keep rolling in. Explain how.