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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Because competitors know they can't ship new features to the wealthy developers and decision-makers that user the iOS products with their badges on the bonnet, the incentive to deliver new capabilities to developers on other platforms deflates.
Again, for Apple, this is working as intended. And they don't even have to put that much of a thumb on the scale. All they have to do is to "just ask questions" in standards conversations; muddy the waters in public and defuse progress in private.