I would generally agree with you if it weren’t for the fact that not only has Apple, among others like Microsoft, totally captured and compromised the government, but the very point of government is to protect and preserve fundamental concepts that are core to the society, one of which is fair and real competition, not this fake illusion of competition where, you are free to leave for a competitor if you can make it across the minefield alive, and give up all the pleasantries of the golden cage.
You even seemingly contradict yourself within two sentences; if alternatives are viable, then government wouldn’t even need to enforce anything users like less, because they would actually be viable and real alternatives that are competitive. When people are starting to discuss government stepping in to enforce fair and actual competition, generally things are extremely out of whack already and in a functioning society and government that government would have already stepped in a long time ago. Alas, our government and society are neither healthy nor even have legitimacy.
For some perspective; the same people who tend to lament “slavery” of a very specific narrow historical narrative, are also the ones who do not see the obvious that plantation slavery was essentially the practical outcome of the communism con job, equally poor outcomes for the masses that the very few “more equal than the rest” benefited from.
So yes, in the name of freedom, government should have, prior to it having had been too late, severely reigned in corruption of the whole American and global system by organized, aka, corporate efforts to do that very thing. Because what is freedom but the only meaningful state of competition, your ability to decide for yourself over your life without others being able to, let alone being supported in controlling it for you.
We are currently in an extremely darkening state where people have been even so manipulated that they cannot even understand what freedom is, let alone insist on it being enforced. Hence, we are getting more and more plantation slaves turning on their own lot trying to fight for their freedom because plantation life is easy and fits within the constraints imposed by the true slavery, mental slavery.
Well that certainly spiraled. I’m suspicious of any technology regulation argument that builds its foundation on plantation slaves. That seems more emotionally manipulative than well-reasoned.
I’m a happy apple ecosystem user. Maybe I’m a plantation slave and don’t realize it, but it doesn’t feel that way?
I know plenty of non-Apple users also happy with their purchasing choices.
From where I sit the calls to prohibit me from choosing an ecosystem that works like Apple’s are generally either from competitors losing in the market or from ideologues who object to Apple’s model in principle and want to force me to use systems that don’t work as well, for my own good , apparently because I’m too dumb to know I’ve been literally enslaved.
You even seemingly contradict yourself within two sentences; if alternatives are viable, then government wouldn’t even need to enforce anything users like less, because they would actually be viable and real alternatives that are competitive. When people are starting to discuss government stepping in to enforce fair and actual competition, generally things are extremely out of whack already and in a functioning society and government that government would have already stepped in a long time ago. Alas, our government and society are neither healthy nor even have legitimacy.
For some perspective; the same people who tend to lament “slavery” of a very specific narrow historical narrative, are also the ones who do not see the obvious that plantation slavery was essentially the practical outcome of the communism con job, equally poor outcomes for the masses that the very few “more equal than the rest” benefited from.
So yes, in the name of freedom, government should have, prior to it having had been too late, severely reigned in corruption of the whole American and global system by organized, aka, corporate efforts to do that very thing. Because what is freedom but the only meaningful state of competition, your ability to decide for yourself over your life without others being able to, let alone being supported in controlling it for you.
We are currently in an extremely darkening state where people have been even so manipulated that they cannot even understand what freedom is, let alone insist on it being enforced. Hence, we are getting more and more plantation slaves turning on their own lot trying to fight for their freedom because plantation life is easy and fits within the constraints imposed by the true slavery, mental slavery.