{"id":28193,"date":"2020-02-21T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28193"},"modified":"2020-02-21T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:29:15","slug":"identifying-monopolistic-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/21\/identifying-monopolistic-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"Identifying Monopolistic Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/identifiying-monopolistic-moves\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/identifiying-monopolistic-moves\">\n<p>In the hearing, Daru complains that iOS 13&rsquo;s repeated location permission alerts disfavours Tile, imposing hurdles on third-party apps that Apple&rsquo;s Find My don&rsquo;t have to contend with. I&rsquo;d say that is indeed unfair and anticompetitive; third-party apps should be treated the same as Apple&rsquo;s. The problem is how far do you take this. If Apple&rsquo;s apps and third-party apps must be concomitant partners, should Apple then be forced to remove Find My as a built-in installed-by-default application? That seems like a step too far, beyond what would be deemed reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>Daru also voices her company&rsquo;s frustration that the U1 chip does not have a public API and therefore unavailable to developers. She argues that anyone should be able to use the ultra-wide band technology in the iPhone, saying that UWB is a standard and the only thing that makes it proprietary is Apple&rsquo;s decision not to expose an API for it. [&#8230;] Personally, I don&rsquo;t think that a manufacturer should be required to allow access to every component of the products they make.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But it&rsquo;s that exact freedom to lock the platform down that allows the platform proprietor to make choices that benefit itself. Let&rsquo;s say Apple never provides an API for ultra-wide band. That means every other company will never be able to match the AirTags on features. Is that a monopolistic move, or just inherent to the state of play? I really don&rsquo;t know how you can distinguish the two.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Mayo: In the hearing, Daru complains that iOS 13&rsquo;s repeated location permission alerts disfavours Tile, imposing hurdles on third-party apps that Apple&rsquo;s Find My don&rsquo;t have to contend with. I&rsquo;d say that is indeed unfair and anticompetitive; third-party apps should be treated the same as Apple&rsquo;s. The problem is how far do you take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-02-21T21:29:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"77c2e804-6249-46b7-aea4-9de13406231f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-02-21T21:29:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ad8LoBGJJRreupJ3hNAYjHw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,1874,101,1821,31,1667,209,1925],"class_list":["post-28193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-u1","tag-business","tag-find-my","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-legal","tag-tile"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28194,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28193\/revisions\/28194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}