> However the solution to overreaching unaccountable private cooperations cannot be to hand all the power to another private unaccountable company.
Another way of thinking about this is what we're taking this so-called overreaching, unaccountable private corporate power from one company and giving many companies that same power.
> The elected EU legislative took some points from both approaches AFTER the free market failed to implement a meaningful competition for central app stores.
You are presenting both Android and iOS, and default app stores for each platform as a duopoly, which is a mistake, because on Android you can already install third-party app stores. The mobile OS landscape is a duopoly, but there are many app stores across both platforms so is is not really a duopoly, it's just that the Google Play Store and App Store on iOS are superior products (particularly the iOS App Store).
On the OS side I think instead of premature legislation and stagnation we should let things just play out. It's a mistake to assume that because the state of the world is X today that it'll always be X. You can't have instantaneous change. It also might just be the economic reality that having just a couple of operating systems is the best for consumers and the market.
Another way of thinking about this is what we're taking this so-called overreaching, unaccountable private corporate power from one company and giving many companies that same power.
> The elected EU legislative took some points from both approaches AFTER the free market failed to implement a meaningful competition for central app stores.
You are presenting both Android and iOS, and default app stores for each platform as a duopoly, which is a mistake, because on Android you can already install third-party app stores. The mobile OS landscape is a duopoly, but there are many app stores across both platforms so is is not really a duopoly, it's just that the Google Play Store and App Store on iOS are superior products (particularly the iOS App Store).
On the OS side I think instead of premature legislation and stagnation we should let things just play out. It's a mistake to assume that because the state of the world is X today that it'll always be X. You can't have instantaneous change. It also might just be the economic reality that having just a couple of operating systems is the best for consumers and the market.