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It's just a strange notion that we will fight google monopoly by forcing people to use Safari.


It would be strange to force Apple to allow its competitors to establish footholds on their own platform, against their will, only for a Chrome monopoly to emerge months later. A web monoculture will be harder to undo than enacting smarter antitrust legislation.


> to establish footholds on their own platform, against their will

Well that's because the phones don't belong to Apple.

Instead, once a consumer purchases it, the phones belong to the user, who should be allowed to do what they want with their own property.




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