The upside is that the market for headphones is more competitive because apple cannot use its control over the iphone to muscle competitors in the headphone market.

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a2dam 5 days ago | parent [-]

The goal is to make consumers better off, not just to have a competitive market. There's a lot of ways to make markets more competitive that don't result in better value for consumers, and I'd argue that this is one of them.

	▲	like_any_other 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		In the short term, specifically because of Apple's malicious compliance. In the long term, a more competitive market results in better off consumers. But no, the goal is not to make consumers better off, but citizens and nations better off. And their interests do not stop at $PRODUCT. Namely, they probably don't want a slow slide into serfdom to foreign corporations that abused their market power.