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  • UK to investigate Apple and Google's 'effective duopoly'

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    22july2013 said:
    I might agree with you if it weren't for the fact, which you don't address, that pulling out of a market would make the people really upset with their government, and they would elect a government that wasn't so paranoid about big tech. If Apple doesn't put up a fight, totalitarian governments will win and keep demanding more from Apple and other companies. At some point Apple needs to put up a fight, but you seem to want Apple to accede to every demand. Following your approach, Apple will lose in the long run.
    There is a world of difference between a company pulling out of a market and a company being told to leave by the Government.
    The former would cause the population to blame the company while the latter would cause them to blame the government.

    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingamelijahgwatto_cobra

  • UK to investigate Apple and Google's 'effective duopoly'

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    This is the UK flexing its muscles now that we are no longer part of the EU.

    As for being a small unimportant market, Apple has significant investments here. Pulling out would irreparably harm their reputation. Google OTOH is mostly a front operation with their main business carried out in Ireland. 

    I am not looking forward to having to use that terrible apology of an OS called Windows ever again. I know that I'm not alone in that. 
    For me, 20+ years of developing software for Windows sucked the creative life out of me.

    williamlondonelijahgwatto_cobra

  • Google's FLoC has 'significant' privacy problems, Mozilla says

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    significant privacy problems? No surprise there then. After all, this is Google we are talking about. Their mantra seems to be 'All your data and life is ours to do with as we please'.
    twokatmewBeatsStrangeDaysOferDogpersoncornchipwatto_cobra

  • Microsoft detailing 'next generation of Windows' on June 24

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    I foresee the next version of Windows to be a subscription-only service SAASS. Give it away for free but unless you subscribe it either stops working or its functionality is severely limited. For example, non-Windows supplied apps won't work or non-Windows Store apps stop dead.
    Naturally, it will download itself when you aren't looking and bingo you are trapped in their pay forever scheme.

    I gave up using windows in 2016 and don't regret it one little bit. 
    Beatswatto_cobra

  • Facebook announces new business communication tools that rival iMessage

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    lordjohnwhorfin said:
    Please, Apple, PLEASE make iMessage cross platform so my European friends don’t nag me to join WhatsApp. It’s become the de facto messaging system and Apple is only hurting its own business by isolating its platform.
    A friend of mine is a university professor in Europe and told me last year when one of his students noticed he was using an iPhone he came up to him utterly puzzled and asked him why on Earth he would be using an iPhone. All his students and all but 2 of the faculty, including him, are android users. And they all use whatsapp and FB Messenger.
    Why allow Facebook to monopolize this market?
    Lovely post. Even Google recognizes that 'Apple is eating their lunch ' when it comes to privacy. IMHO, you should just tell your professor friend that if he cares one little about privacy then using bog-standard Android with FB and WhatsApp is not the way to go.
    I took the stance years ago that anyone who wanted me to sign up to FB etc in order to keep in touch then they were not the sort of people I wanted to know long term. A few understood my reasoning and we remain friends but without anti-social media.
    watto_cobra