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		ch4s3 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPh... This is a goofy argument. Telephone lines are a natural monopoly, cell phones are not. I have no interest in a poorly secured grab bag of bullshit blue-tooth add-ons, and there's no government interest in enabling that.

xigoi 9 months ago [–]

As long as banks require you to install an app, phone OSes are effectively a monopoly.

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