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0 pointsVikingCoder7y ago0 comments

Exactly.

This is so back-asswards.

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MBCook7y ago

You can be open. You just can’t use contracts to extend your monopoly to other areas.

This is not an open/closed dichotomy. This is a free/controlled market issue.

VikingCoderOP7y ago

I literally don't understand.

If Google manufactured all Android phones, and Android were closed source, and Android came pre-installed with the Play Store, Search, and Chrome, I think it wouldn't be a problem, right?

That turns this into an open/closed dichotomy.

MBCook7y ago

Again, they can be ‘open’ (sell/give to other OEMs), they just can’t use contracts to force those OEMs to help them dominate other markets/kill Android competition.

That’s what they’re doing here, just like MS did in the 90s with Windows licenses.

wetpaws7y ago

If Android was close there would not be any monopoly, I think this is the idea.

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MBCook7y ago

You can be open. You just can’t use contracts to extend your monopoly to other areas.

This is not an open/closed dichotomy. This is a free/controlled market issue.

VikingCoderOP7y ago

I literally don't understand.

If Google manufactured all Android phones, and Android were closed source, and Android came pre-installed with the Play Store, Search, and Chrome, I think it wouldn't be a problem, right?

That turns this into an open/closed dichotomy.

MBCook7y ago

Again, they can be ‘open’ (sell/give to other OEMs), they just can’t use contracts to force those OEMs to help them dominate other markets/kill Android competition.

That’s what they’re doing here, just like MS did in the 90s with Windows licenses.

wetpaws7y ago

If Android was close there would not be any monopoly, I think this is the idea.

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