U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week: sources
Go after Apple next. They're the worst of the lot.Apple is destroying the notion of computing freedom by locking up all their computing devices. You shouldn't be able to sell a computer or phone and prohibit what runs on it. These aren't game consoles sold at a loss with tons of competition - these are the gateways to digital lives and international business.And what the hell business do any of these three companies have doing movie/tv production? (Four companies, if you count Amazon.) They wouldn't even allow studios to own theaters, and yet we allow these four monopolies to own payments infrastructure, communication, entertainment, devices.What the fuck? Are we just going to let them soak up the entire economy?It's absurd and it has to stop.Break up all four. Microsoft is doing better than ever post-DOJ, and the intervention led to Apple, Google, and Facebook ascendency. (Microsoft had to pay Apple!) The intervention created wealth and opportunity. It required Microsoft to innovate more - and look where they are now!Make Apple pay Epic and all the companies it hurts on the App Store. Don't let them have a say what you can and can't run on your device, how you install software, or how you make repairs or upgrades. And don't let them limit which browsers you can install, either!Tell Google they can't do Chrome and AMP anymore, and threaten to pull AdSense into a separate company.Make Facebook open up its chat protocol and provide rich data export and interoperability tools.Split Amazon and AWS. Make them stop bundling services and selling their own products. Fine them for fakes.My absolute dream would be for the DOJ to make Google and Apple collaborate on a cross-platform native app API and treat it as a first class citizen. Doubly so if web/WASM can make those API calls. Visiting Netflix.com should give me first-class native streaming, casting, and screen sharing.Technology belongs to us, not the giants.Edit: Apple enablers downvoting. Y'all need to rethink what's going on and have a serious change of heart. I'm not a heretic calling for more freedom and you're not in a puritanical sect defending a blameless entity. This company has trillions of dollars and they don't need you to defend them. You don't need this company to protect you and everyone else - don't blindly trust them while they erode the world around us.