You can’t have a platform dictate everything about how it sells merchant wise without having an antitrust involved.
Didn’t the EU, who have some of the strictest rules in that regard, rule that walled garden ecosystems are allowed in their case against Apple?
Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
they made the statement with apple but then decided the exact opposite with google. I think Sony will run into similar issues as google, but we will see
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 5 days ago
With Google, wasn’t the issue that they were on other devices, or were paying others to use their defaults or something? To be clear, I’m working from memory here, and am too tired to read a bunch of legal stuff to confirm one way or the other.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
part of it was yes