Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊I'm in a super posh hotel meeting room in Whitehall, and already had a v interesting chat with a lawyer from a bank on how Apple"s "opening" access to iThing NFC comes with ludicrous contractual Ts&Cs, like its terms to use non-WebKit browsers on iOS.
There's a lot of false dichotomising about how Regulation can restrict innovation and growth. It's certainly true that government intervention has damaged growth in the lucrative Uk-based heroin market.
One of the panelists (Mathew Jones, MacFarlanes) makes the point that competition helps innovation, citing the stagnation of WebKit. I wanted to cheer, but it's not that kind of event (full of lawyers who would find me in contempt) and economists (who would punch me on my marginal cost curve)
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@brucelawson recognizing the shortcomings of WebKit, specially in enabling app-like experiences, what did the panelist actually mean with Calcification? Did he have particular examples in mind?
ps. Kudos on your self-restraint, although that did not apply to your joke-making 😉
@juandesant he meant how webkit was much slower to fix bugs, release updates, add features. (He didn't use the term "calcification'). It's not a tech audience so mentioning IndexedDB, webRTC wouldn't have been useful.
Andy Wootton@brucelawson I think "Why?" is an interesting question though. Other advantages claimed for competition rather than cooperation are false. Do humans need 'enemies' to fight? That would be depressing.
Kevin Karhan 
@brucelawson same with #Opium and anything else.
- I mean, had there been all these "#FreeTrade" agreements we'd certainly see #OrganizedCrime and #PharmaBros sue the shit out of #regulated markets like the #EU and espechally #Germany for not allowing OTC sale of #Fentanyl and "price fixing" essential medication (by WHO standards!) to stay #affordable rather than allow #monopolization and #extortion of those in need of #Insulin and #Prymetamine…