Post #2829563

2025-08-30 15:38 UTC

@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org @leeloo@chaosfem.tw @lianna@micro.webgarden.click if the terms are so onerous and unfair to the customer base, there must be a huge market for a provider without them to overtake with their own device and software. isn’t that how the free market works?

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@jazaval@mastodon.social 2025-08-30 15:48

@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org @leeloo@chaosfem.tw @lianna@micro.webgarden.click or maybe most customers are actually happy to have an App Store because 20 years ago they kept getting viruses from clicking the wrong button on download.com because they didn’t understand what SourceForge was

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@StaticR@guild.pmdcollab.org 2025-08-31 04:34

@jazaval@mastodon.social Thank you for bringing up the free market because you are right, in a free market I'd be able to freely choose which vendor, provider, manufacturer, developer and so on I conduct my business with. But the reality is there is no free market anymore, the existence of a free market has been eroded away by big companies like google and their peers over time step by step, the most recent step being the one we've been arguing about. (see image cuz post is long and I don't wanna split it up)

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