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Maybe its ok for some infractions to be automated but for things with huge penalties like life-time ban of developer or removing an app that took months of work... there should be a panel of real humans or some kind of human process.


well, to start with the power of monopolies should be limited. Google with play store on Android is the MS with IE on Windows 20+ years ago.


No it's worse. Yes Microsoft used their market share and deep pockets to drink other companies milkshake, but they didn't use control over the OS to prevent uses from installing competitors software.

As a friend said 10 years ago, this is the end of general purpose computing.


Oh, that is definitely not true.

Internal OS code was ‘tweaked’ to cause problems for certain 3rd party applications.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS#Competition_from_Micros...

Taken from child reply.



Yes, and it mentions SuperStor, ugh.

Having ‘Stacker’ flashbacks.




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