google is a prison and the enemy of FOSS, we really need an alternative

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40230491

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Can anyone explain how this isn’t an illegal monopoly? I’m genuinely curious

Apple was the canary in the coal mine for this behavior in the EU. Apple was forced to allow third party apps, so Apple mandated that everyone had to register with them, and pay them their yearly fee, and then developers had to pay Apple another fee (core technology fee, still double dipping), and governments were completely fine with that. (And developers will happily jump through more hoops to develop on iOS).

Google saw this and decided if they can, so can Google. And this technically is the easier of the two as at least this doesn’t require every developer to register with Google this way.

Really good point to illustrate how liberal reform efforts just redirect capitalist control into an increasingly contrived legal system.