Japan plans to stoke competition in smartphone app payments, dominated by Apple and Google, by banning major app store operators from forcing software developers to use the operators' own payment systems, a government panel said.

I’d love apple products if they didn’t make me feel compelled to be part of the ecosystem.

Edit: oops, just saw this was already posted in the news community a couple days ago

  • bouncing@partizle.comMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s both news and tech-relevant.

    I think this is probably a reasonable consumer protection. If you own a device, you should decide what software to run on it. I generally quite like Apple products, but regulations like this are necessary to keep Apple (and other companies) from abusing their market dominance.