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   Jonathan Joelson (jjoelson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 04:11:55 JST Jonathan Joelson

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I’m not sure I understand the scope of argument though. Is the idea that once a company gets large enough they are no longer allowed to have private interfaces? Or, what is the criteria to determine when keeping an interface private becomes illegal?

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     Jonathan Joelson (jjoelson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 05:14:56 JST Jonathan Joelson

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Well it’s an idea about how a very old law might apply to computer hardware and software. I don’t want companies to have free reign to act anticompetitively, but also I don’t think it’s good for anyone if companies are forced to allow 3rd party integration at *every* level of the software and hardware stack. I’m trying to understand what the criteria is or ought to be for when it’s legally required.

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     Jonathan Joelson (jjoelson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 05:37:27 JST Jonathan Joelson

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Not to mention the fact that Android exists. I’m not accusing you of this, but I see a certain elitism in some who would rather pretend that Apple is a monopoly than give up their precious iPhone and slum it with the Android folks.

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     Jonathan Joelson (jjoelson@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 05:37:28 JST Jonathan Joelson

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I guess for me the nuance is in questions like: is it illegally anticompetitive that Apple Watches can unlock my phone but 3rd party watches can’t? Like, is *any* degree of proprietary integration between the iPhone and Apple Watch illegal on its face? I don’t think this is super straightforward as you appear to think.

     I mean, is the Mac just completely illegal given its integrations with the iPhone? HomePod? Vision Pro?

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     Pepper1700 :veritrek_gold: (pepper1700@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 05:55:49 JST Pepper1700 :veritrek_gold:

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs @jjoelson First good take of the days, I am going to help you overtake Zuckerberg in followers!