Recently I saw an article saying, Japanese law forced Apple to open up browser restrictions on iOS.

But this got me thinking, why couldn’t Apple just tell them to fuck off by saying that iOS is meant to be that way cause we are the ones who designed it and the ones who own it. And if you want a change, go make your own products.

Don’t get me wrong, I hate big-tech controlling peoples lives, but aren’t these kind of laws; telling a maker to make the product in a specific way, eliminating creative freedom?

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    19 days ago

    I am not 100% sure how to tackle your comment:

    Are you pro-monopolies or anti-regulations? Or maybe both?

    Have the communication giants (AOL, Comcast, …) taught you nothing?

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      19 days ago

      None of the above?

      I’m pro progression, discovery, creativity and science. Things that aren’t happening in europe.

      Have the communication giants (AOL, Comcast, …) thought you nothing?

      They thought me things like semiconductor physics, hamming codes!

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            19 days ago

            Well, for example maybe ask youself which continent produced the first commercially available COVID vaccines?

            Hint: Pfizer is a distributor, not a developer.

            Edit: Also talking about those fancy computer papers you mention: Do you happen to know where the world leading manufacturer of equipment for high end chip production is located?

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                  19 days ago

                  Spotify, one of the scandinavian countries I think.

                  Now I think we ran out. You know more?

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                    19 days ago

                    Oh, we can keep going, alright.

                    I guess you didn’t see the edit to my earlier comment: Monopolist on high-end semiconductor manufacturing equipment? Comes from a place that calls itself the “Low Lands”.