did license macOS out several decades ago. There were issues between hardware and software so they quit and brought it back under their umbrella so it’s integrated. That’s my understanding. was nothing much when the iPhone came out.
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A billionaire bought the white house.
Enjoy Oligarchy! 🫠
Corruption
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Swift compiles anywhere.
How is it allowed? That's the American way, baby!
How is it possible? People buying Apple products. Their walled garden seems to be a point of pride amongst many users. Not many people actually need Apple products, it's a choice.
While I broadly agree with your sentiment,
Why can’t you compile Swift outside of MacOS
You can compile Swift on Windows and Linux. There are other tools required to build macOS and iOS-apps bundled with XCode that prevents building those on other platforms, but Swift itself is available standalone.
Because america is for the companies, not its citizens
Envelopes of cash
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.
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.
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.
Do you at least concede that it has the behaviors similar to that of a monopoly.
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.
Because it's the top American company. US protects Apple and allies can't work against that. Now that US and EU relationship is deteriorating we'll see loads of lawsuits against Apple pop up in Europe.
How do you define 'top company'?
Probably market cap
And cultural impact. Americans are super patriotic about Apple and don't even notice it.
Eh, they're perceived as more "lefty" than most of the stereotypically "patriotic" corporations of the US.
There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a "crunchy granola" reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other "woke" people and living in California, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call "woke" without blinking an eye.
I think it's all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply -- or at least claim to care deeply -- about eroding democratic norms, and the rolling back of people's rights and that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.
Because the political right doesn't actually like functional markets.
Free markets are mostly a myth.
entirely free markets result in facebook, google, amazon, but worse, where they have absolutely no restrictions. a. iddle ground is needed, that we don't have currently
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