thrang

Meh, most of the general public isn’t doing anything with “AI”… there’s plenty of time… most still can’t define it.

When you read the stipulations the judicial branch is stating Apple must follow for its own product/service ecosystem, with no illegal monopoly found, is utterly insane. There are thousands of examples one could rattle off in which no other company in the nation would be compelled to follow this way.

The lack of logic is astounding.

Can Apple now freely make Apple Music purchases or monthly streaming available on the Spotify platform? Does Apple get shelf space for Arcade freely on Epic's platform? Does Hugo Boss get to sell its clothing in Nordstroms and collection 100% of the sale and pay no rent or other costs for leveraging Nordstroms floor space, utilities, marketing, advertising, brand equity, security, retail magnetism? OR conversely, can Boss put up signs (freely or otherwise) in Nordstroms directing people to go out into the mall and visit their corporate retail location?

Why stop here? Why not force Apple to allow third party operating systems? Why have Apple at all?

spheric said:

mikethemartian said:

rob53 said:

Ok Germany, where's your computer devices that are used worldwide? Oh, can't actually make any that people want to use? Quit complaining about Apple's success and try and compete instead of trying to make money by fining an American company.

Your iPhone and Mac were designed on tools made by Siemens.

And their chips were produced on machines made by ASML. 

So the EU should sue/sanction ASML, as they are a clear monopoly in the market in which they participate.

Oh wait, they are headquartered in the Netherlands, so, hmmmm, perhaps the EU is not aware of them...

Well it’s crystal clear Apple should sue BMW, Mercedes and others for maintaining proprietary and monopolistic control over their platforms, denying third parties like Apple from participating and harming consumers by limiting choice….

…just sayin’…

nubus said:

thrang said:

nubus said:

You want a free market but at the same time you expect for governments to set laws regarding patents and enforce them. You can't have both.

Protecting against intellectual capital theft, and enforcing that protection, has nothing to do with a company being able to set the margin for specific products or services without government scrutiny. The marketplace will determine if a company is "gouging", and not buy/look elsewhere.

Didn't work with AT&T or Standard Oil or keep competition in browsers (until Microsoft got stopped by regulation) or stop <any financial crisis>. The market is not perfect. We can't doing old mistakes on repeat. Or well... U.S. decided to. Most of the world is moving on. This includes UK. Nations are indeed not alike. Some prefer to learn and adapt.

The comparison to the Standard Oil and AT&T monopolies is laughably misguided.