Tech has a long and storied history of anti-competitive behavior by the platform owner, even without fancy signed code + crypto:
* Microsoft and the games they played with 4DOS, undocumented calls, testing for id strings and then claiming windows woulden't run on the "Incompatible" DOS variant
* Apple re-implementing shareware utilities in the System 6/7/8/9 days right into the operating system, sometimes not compensating the original developer for the idea
* MS Word using undocumented API's for better UX + integration over all word processors in the 90s/00s
* Twitter Changing Platform API and kicking out all sorts of useful apps on their platform
* Facebook doing the same
At least this time around, there's a clear kill switch so they don't have to be underhanded about it. And in this instance there was a clear and unambiguous ToS violation in play. Most of the instances I've listed went unpunished, or were only given a slap on the wrist after the damage was done.
* Microsoft and the games they played with 4DOS, undocumented calls, testing for id strings and then claiming windows woulden't run on the "Incompatible" DOS variant
* Apple re-implementing shareware utilities in the System 6/7/8/9 days right into the operating system, sometimes not compensating the original developer for the idea
* MS Word using undocumented API's for better UX + integration over all word processors in the 90s/00s
* Twitter Changing Platform API and kicking out all sorts of useful apps on their platform
* Facebook doing the same
At least this time around, there's a clear kill switch so they don't have to be underhanded about it. And in this instance there was a clear and unambiguous ToS violation in play. Most of the instances I've listed went unpunished, or were only given a slap on the wrist after the damage was done.