• Ephera
    11•3 years ago

    I mean, yeah. Different rules apply when you have market dominance.

    That is not fair. It doesn’t need to be. Laws don’t exist to be fair, they exist to produce the most beneficial outcome for everyone involved in a given society (with yes, different weightings depending on political influence).

    Usually, fairness is an overall beneficial property, which is why we expect laws to be fair, but with anti-competition laws that’s just not the case. Being unfair to the party with market dominance is beneficial to society.

    • @uthredii@lemmy.ml
      2•3 years ago

      I guess it matters how you calculate market dominance though. Devices sold? Revenue? Profit?

      Apple is the most profitable smartphone manufacturer and has the most restrictive ecosystem. It has a complete monopoly on apps sold within its own ecosystem.

      • Ephera
        3•3 years ago

        I think, it’s generally rather about devices sold than about the particular profit you draw from it, because if you only satisfy e.g. 30% of the demand, that still leaves plenty room for competitors to build up their business. But if you cover e.g. 90% of the demand, it becomes very hard for competitors to find customers.

        But yeah, antitrust laws are very loosely laid out and pretty much entirely up for judges to make judgements.

  • The Free Penguin
    1•3 years ago

    I actually like the fact that MS integrated Teams tho If I were to make a Linux distro, I would also make forks of LibreOffice, Thunderbird, and GNOME maps and have them preinstalled.

    • @nour@lemmygrad.ml
      1•3 years ago

      I don’t like this sort of thing. Pre-installed software, along with its dependencies, takes up space. I’d much rather spend some time with installing the software I actually use after I installed the system, than with uninstalling stuff I don’t need after it already took up time to download and valuable disk space.

      For example, before the pandemic, I had no use at all for any video-call tool (like MS Teams). Your comment is actually the first time I ever heard about GNOME maps… I can see why many people need LibreOffice and Thunderbird, but at the same these softwares are quite big and ressource-heavy. I use a more lightweight alternative to LibreOffice, called AbiWord. I actually use Thunderbird, but I’m absolutely fine with installing it manually rather than having it pre-installed.

      (I’m not the one who downvoted your comment BTW. What you said was kind of interesting, even if I can’t agree at all.)