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Great, let lazy developers ship lots of React/Electron/whatever apps each coming with their own Chrome engines and each being 100MB+ in size. Websites won't be tested properly on Safari anymore because "please install Chrome from the App Store for maximum compatibility". And Google's domination of the browser market will be completely unstoppable.
More competition is always better.
We all thought that when Google came along, too.
...what?
Did you not notice that almost every browser from recent years is based on Chromium?
Did you not notice how Google Search basically eradicated almost every alternative there was (RIP AltaVista…) over the years?
Did you not notice how Android dominates the mobile OS market in most countries?
So, hold up, your solution to monopolies is enforced monopolies?
Funny how you're talking about monopolies when the most probable outcome of Apple opening up their OS will be even more Chromium-based browsers in the mobile world.
So, that's a yes on the enforced monopolies?
IMHO it’s Apple’s product and thus Apple’s rules. It’s not about monopoly, it’s just Apple having control over their own product. You’re still free to NOT buy their product.
You're still free to NOT install other browsers.
So you're entirely against the EU's DMA?
I’m against the whole EU construct. I’d like to see them downgraded to the EEC/EEA again. So, yes, I’m also against those pencil-pushers in little Brussels making stupid (to be fair: sometimes, very rarely, less stupid) laws instead of letting people decide with their money.
Ah, and I would bet a lot of money you don't actually live in the EU, do you?
Born there and lived there until very recently. That's why I'm so against it. 😉