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Comment Re:It's not the comma's fault (Score 1) 69

Europe is doing it's own version of that against the US, passing massive taxes that only hit big US internet companies. That's what Apple is fighting here.

Except that the law in question here also affects Chinese and European companies. That's just not reported much in the (I assume) predominantly American media that you consume.
It's the same situation when the EU levies fines against US companies for breach of regulations: A certain kind of people starts to complain that the EU is doing that just for US companies. Yet the EU is fining EU companies all the time for similar misbehavior, it just flies under the radar of these people as it isn't reported in their bubble.

Comment Re:"Open" how? (Score 1) 132

Fuck developers.

Ah, yes. "Fuck" the people that made your ecosystem the success it is.

Do you think that iPhones would be as successful as they are if it wasn't for the huge amount of apps on the app store? Without third-party apps it would be a very limited experience.

Comment Re:Is it about (Score 1) 65

But what about when the overwhelming majority of the Affected Consumers, i.e., Apple Users, would actually prefer that things stay just the way they are?

Then they just do nothing and everything will stay as it is for them.
But other users, that want more choice, will have it.

Nobody is forcing third-party stores or alternative payment providers on users. They can alway refuse to change.

Comment Re:PDOs (Score 1) 314

That "Socialist country" is almost certainly Germany, as this is exactly as these things are handled here.

SHOULD an insurance company run out of money their bills will be paid with the money that all health insurance providers collectively had to put aside fore exactly that case. A similar system is used to ensure that if a bank runs out of money the people will still be able to access all or a significant amount of the money they entrusted that bank with. I'm pretty sure that a similar system is in effect for banks in the US as well. I don't know if the health insurance providers are backed-up similarly in the US.

And yes, the insurance providers do sometimes increase their rates. But not because they run out of money due to having to pay for too many sick days. They know that this is the law and they calculate accordingly.

These laws ensure that if you get sick, you can concentrate on getting better rather than having to worry about how to pay your bills.

I know this is a strange concept for some people, but laws sometimes can be written to benefit the people, rather than companies.

Comment Re:It "has" to be removed? (Score 0) 120

You didn't pay for Wordpad.
You (maybe) pied for Windows, and you know that a certain number of system apps come bundled with it. but the exact apps change all the time, and I don't remember seeing Microsoft advertising Wordpad as a part of Windows in... ever?

So you're not losing anything that was promised to you, but just something that you got used to having.

Comment Re:What's the story here? (Score 2) 105

So... when the GNU people forked Libreboot under the same name it was ok, but when others to it to them it's not?

Also, the "you have to defend your trademark or you loose it" stuff is not true (or at least not as simple as these statements make it sound).

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