The Biden Administration makes much of its pro-consumer actions. President Sleepy Joe never tires of boasting about how his regulations favor consumers over credit card companies. Considering the massive taxation that his administration supports, however, saving a few bucks on overdraft fees looks a bit absurd in context.
As does the administration’s ramped-up
The federal government has now attacked Apple. On anti-trust grounds. For being a monopoly.
The humor in this was noted by anti-intellectual property theorist Stephan Kinsella, tweeting on X: “‘U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly’ We grant you patent and copyright monopoly privileges and you use them to build up a monopoly? How dare you!”
Jeffrey A. Tucker of the Brownstone Institute was less amused, and less concerned with Apple’s reliance upon intellectual property, which he claims is secondary to the company’s useful products: “The very notion that the government is trying to protect consumers in this case is preposterous. Apple is a success not because they are exploitative but because they make products that users like, and they like them so much that they buy
At issue is how Apple products work so well together but not so well with other manufacturers’ products. “The Justice Department calls this anticompetitive even though competing is exactly the source of Apple’s market strength,” insists Tucker.
Maybe it’s really about this principle: the government giveth; the government taketh away: blessed be the name of the Biden.
In full disclosure, I have an iPhone, which I hate, and a Microsoft Surface Book, which I also hate. I’m open to any of their competitors, which I might hate less.
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A monopoly on election winning, also.
By any means necessary.
https://x.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1763887402152566833?s=20
Next thing you know the government will be seeing Tesla because their batteries do not work in a Fisker.
The correct correct conclusion is the present Administration and administrative branch have no understanding of the market or the effects of their attempts to manipulate it.
That is not a problem for the courts or litigation. It requires internal housekeeping and increased competency, both of which are not even on the triage list.
If they are so interested in anti-trust issues, maybe they should investigate Blackrock, Vangard, and State Street.
One can get distributions of Android stript of the Google-ware, or containing only that Google-ware which one actually wants.
And other folk are running versions of Linux other than Android on mobile devices.
In my opinion, Android itself is pretty good, even when based upon the Google distribution, but users should avoid the many applications from Google, such as the Chrome browser, and users should look into applications available on F-Droid.
Isn’t iPhone a brand name? It has plenty of competition from android phones. I still use a flip phone.
It is SO ironic for the government to wax about how much it hates monopolies, when the government itself is the biggest and nastiest monopoly in sight.