For example:

  • You MUST use Apple’s own apps (iMessage, Phone, etc.) as well as Apple’s own App Store
    • To be fair, the EU is doing work to solve this particular issue…but most of the reforms are only for EU customers
  • You have to use WebKit when developing a browser for macOS iOS and iPadOS, you can’t use Gecko or Blink
  • iOS apps must be developed using XCode IF YOU WANT TO PUBLISH IT ON THE APP STORE, which is only available on MacOS…

That last one is weird. Why can’t you compile Swift outside of MacOS (i.e. third party IDEs)? Why can only XCode do it?

edit: Gecko and Blink based browsers are available on macOS. I learnt something new today. Not for iOS or iPadOS though. Also, Xcode is only a requirement for publishing in the App Store. You are able to compile Swift in any OS. You’ll just need to distribute the app via sideloading and/or third-party app stores (in the EU)

  • HobbitFoot English
    313·
    3 天前

    Apple isn’t a monopoly.

    In personal computing and smartphones, Apple has competition. Because Apple has competition, even if it is only one other major company, Apple won’t be forced to unbundle services.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        9·
        3 天前

        Yeah, but the law genuinely treats (near-)monopolies differently from their competitors. What’s legal for a small company does not have to be for a company which dominates the market.

        The thing is, laws are supposed to bring the greatest benefit to a society. In most cases, fairness aids that goal. But that’s not the case for competition laws, which is why they’re relatively unintuitive.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 天前

      Monopolies are not the only thing that governments are supposed to prevent. Anti competitive practices are supposed to be illegal regardless of monopoly status. The same is true of cartel behavior.

      • HobbitFoot English
        1·
        2 天前

        Regulations on cartel behavior is usually linked more to price fixing, not industry practice. Also, there is consumer choice on being forced into a single app store, get an Android phone.

        And Apple has been forced to allow for in app purchases, the most cartel like behavior between the two stores.