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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

The mobile duopoly likes to talk about the #MobileEcosystem, but it's no ecosystem - it's a pair of walled gardens:

https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/

It's a planned economy run by a pair of corporate executives who deliberate in secret and are accountable only to their shareholders. Thankfully, some regulators are alive to the hazards of this #technofeudal arrangement and are taking firm measures:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-13/apple-set-to-be-hit-by-eu-antitrust-order-in-app-store-fight-with-spotify

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