<story><title>Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/telegram-files-eu-antitrust-complaint-against-apples-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t install the apps I wish to install on my Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Tesla, VW etc.&lt;p&gt;Your argument that &amp;quot;every platform must allow open access&amp;quot; is an unprecedented one that would destroy many business models.&lt;p&gt;Consoles being an obvious one.</text></item><item><author>holmesworcester</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s important to remember that the root issue is not Apple&amp;#x27;s profit margin, it&amp;#x27;s Apple&amp;#x27;s refusal to allow users to install the apps they wish to install on phones that they&amp;#x27;ve legally purchased.&lt;p&gt;The margin, if it is indeed very high—and common sense says it must be very high—is just an indicator of how much power this control gets them and what the degree of harm might be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AnthonyMouse</author><text>&amp;gt; I can&amp;#x27;t install the apps I wish to install on my Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Tesla, VW etc.&lt;p&gt;People keep bringing this up as if it wouldn&amp;#x27;t be better if they were required to allow competition too.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Your argument that &amp;quot;every platform must allow open access&amp;quot; is an unprecedented one that would destroy many business models.&lt;p&gt;The illegality of murder destroys the business model of hitmen. Destroying harmful business models is &lt;i&gt;the idea&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not as if consoles wouldn&amp;#x27;t exist under a different business model. The console itself would cost more (or just generate less profit) and the games would cost less. It&amp;#x27;s hard to see how that wouldn&amp;#x27;t be an improvement.</text></comment>
<story><title>Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/telegram-files-eu-antitrust-complaint-against-apples-app-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>threeseed</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t install the apps I wish to install on my Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Tesla, VW etc.&lt;p&gt;Your argument that &amp;quot;every platform must allow open access&amp;quot; is an unprecedented one that would destroy many business models.&lt;p&gt;Consoles being an obvious one.</text></item><item><author>holmesworcester</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s important to remember that the root issue is not Apple&amp;#x27;s profit margin, it&amp;#x27;s Apple&amp;#x27;s refusal to allow users to install the apps they wish to install on phones that they&amp;#x27;ve legally purchased.&lt;p&gt;The margin, if it is indeed very high—and common sense says it must be very high—is just an indicator of how much power this control gets them and what the degree of harm might be.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>Consoles are single-purpose entertainment devices. There are dozens of choices in this market, even openly distributed PC games.&lt;p&gt;Pocket computers are generic compute devices. These should be the most open systems in the world, and yet, somehow we&amp;#x27;ve been mind controlled into them becoming locked down fiefdoms.&lt;p&gt;People take pictures, make calls, make payments, find love, do business, arrange their schedule, take notes, post online, order food. Literally everything. On these devices.&lt;p&gt;For most, they&amp;#x27;ve even taken the place of the PC.&lt;p&gt;They need to be open.&lt;p&gt;I continue to tell my representatives about this travesty.</text></comment>