tundraboy

Cryptocurrencies, tulips ... meh.  Except terrorists, drug dealers, extortionists, and other felons have no particular fondness for tulips.

sdw2001 said:

 But I don't want Facebook tracking me after I leave the platform, or tracking/listening while I'm not actively online.

You hit the nail right on the head on why Facebook is just so evil.  Even if you've never ever opened a Facebook account, they will still open a file on you and collect as much data about you as they can.  Why that is legal beats me.

Right to repair in compact consumer electronics is a lost cause.  The products are evolving towards more and more integrated components.  The industry is already at SOCs.  Eventually, smartphones will just be a solid block of circuitry, a screen, and a battery.  The screen might even become just part of the circuit block.  This is the direction that product economics and technology dictate for smartphones to continue getting more powerful while maintaining their compact size.

gatorguy said:

Per another source there's a difference in what each side would like to claim as the marketplace:

Competition regulators tend to take the view that the relevant market is “iOS apps,” and here Apple has a 100% monopoly on their sale and distribution.

The first sentence is downright stupid.  There has never ever been any case where the relevant market is defined that narrowly.  We might as well accuse BMW of monopolizing the relevant market called "Cars with BMW engines".  Or closer to home, Microsoft is monopolizing the relevant market called "Xbox games".

This guy has the ethics of a Zuckerberg.