Well another version of it is: I want to be able to talk to my family, but I don't want to buy an iPhone. The EU rightly regulated that any chat network big enough must open their doors to different platforms. Or I don't want to buy Microsoft Office for my employees but I want to be able to do business with those who do, and thankfully we have relatively open document formats now.

The chips argument is contrived, the OS argument less so, but it's all just network effects at some level, and it's important for competition and effective markets that we prevent the largest networks from locking people in and forcing them to make a lot of other unrelated decisions.

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hypeatei 2 days ago | parent [-]

> I want to be able to talk to my family, but I don't want to buy an iPhone

How were you not able to do this without an iPhone?

	▲	danpalmer a day ago \| parent [-]
		iMessage being a closed ecosystem. Apple finally added RCS support, but only after regulatory pressure. To not recognise this as a limitation is to be wilfully blind to network effects. The "green bubbles" issue was a huge issue in the US. Similarly, WhatsApp not being open is a huge problem in forcing people onto Meta's platforms.