But what if a company is too powerful and has an unfair advantage in the market?
For example: Say a company is able to make excellent ear buds – the best in the market. Apple obviously doesn't want to loose out on AirPods profit, so they then decide to deliberately make it a poor user experience to use other ear buds on Macs and Iphones. Now it is impossible for better ear buds to compete with AirPods because Apple abuses an unfair market advantage. Furthermore, this heavily decentivices other companies from even entering the market.
I see your point about the dangers of allowing governments to overregulate companies, but it is also dangerous to let companies freely do whatever they want. Share holders will happily screw over consumers and society for a tiny increase in profit.
In my opinion, right now there exists too many unhealthy markets – especially in technology – and I would like to see more regulations akin to what EU is doing. US is dropping the ball hard on this one.
It is in the public interest to regulate companies. This is the best tool we have to promote a healthy market with fair competition, and to ensure companies make safe products that aligns with the public interest.
Windows is becoming like what you report: you are forced to cough up an email address or phone number just to get it running
You can actually install windows 11 without a Microsoft account, but it is not at all obvious how to do it. You have to be disconnected from WiFi, run some commands in CMD, and reboot the computer. Then, and only then, the windows 11 installer will allow you to bypass the Microsoft account setup.
But what if a company is too powerful and has an unfair advantage in the market?
For example: Say a company is able to make excellent ear buds – the best in the market. Apple obviously doesn't want to loose out on AirPods profit, so they then decide to deliberately make it a poor user experience to use other ear buds on Macs and Iphones. Now it is impossible for better ear buds to compete with AirPods because Apple abuses an unfair market advantage. Furthermore, this heavily decentivices other companies from even entering the market.
I see your point about the dangers of allowing governments to overregulate companies, but it is also dangerous to let companies freely do whatever they want. Share holders will happily screw over consumers and society for a tiny increase in profit.
In my opinion, right now there exists too many unhealthy markets – especially in technology – and I would like to see more regulations akin to what EU is doing. US is dropping the ball hard on this one.
It is in the public interest to regulate companies. This is the best tool we have to promote a healthy market with fair competition, and to ensure companies make safe products that aligns with the public interest.
I'll live to see the cyberpunk era, but will not be happy about it...
I feel exactly the same as you. They've built up enough trust and goodwill throughout the years that I am willing to let this misstep slide.
The lack of linux support is a pain, but I kinda see their argument for prioritizing windows and mac right now...
Thank you <3
I found this to be the best solution for my use case! Thank you!
The app is closed source and apparently full of trackers, which is a deal breaker for me.
Edit: But thank you for the suggestion!
Thank you! Been sober for a month and my body already feels so much healthier!
Hehe, I also considered to start an open source project prior to asking the question. :p
However, I found that Sobriety is working fine for my use case. Will definitely try to contribute to that project in the future!
+1 for kjernekraft! Bare synd at de fleste folk og politikere er redde for teknologien.
7 years here. Glad I left reddit for lemmy. I will never sign up for a centralized social media platform again, I've learned my lesson.
Fuck u/spez.
Absolutely agree! It's really sad that I need windows for work, otherwise I would've fully committed to linux already.
You can actually install windows 11 without a Microsoft account, but it is not at all obvious how to do it. You have to be disconnected from WiFi, run some commands in CMD, and reboot the computer. Then, and only then, the windows 11 installer will allow you to bypass the Microsoft account setup.
Edit: I know because I recently did this