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Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

All true, but they are also failing at simple stuff. Requiring a closed company's format or services is a monopoly. Especially if "everyone else is doing it". That is when regulators need to step in as it's a market failure when there is a single vendor "everyone is using".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Correct. I feel the regulators lost the plot when they didn't keep up with market demands for next gen messaging, leading first to the proprietary protocols and then the proliferation of third party apps growing out of a person's social clout. It's sucks having to check which app someone is on before I can communicate with them. Some of us here in Asia have 10+ messaging apps on our phone, a combination of pre installed bloatware and apps installed because someone else didn't have my one, esoteric app. Each time we are handing over more and more of our personal data, network, metadata (so they say) etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It was a problem before IMs on phones. Or smart phone. (Maybe not IMs because of IRC). Microsoft have been conflating monopolies with standards since forever. Not only dominating desktop operating systems, but office software on it. Using monopoly of one to get a monopoly of the other. And lets not forget what they did with browers. The EU is only body in the world dealing with the problem at all.

    Phones in Asia sound even more dystopian than here in the UK. Surely you can still go LineageOS, GrapheneOS, etc?

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