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[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

If there's any company that doesn't need to be broken up, it's Apple. They only really have 3 core functions: hardware, software, and cloud services. And the cloud services really only matter to people using their hardware and software.

A better approach for Apple specifically are pro-consumer regulations. Breaking them up seems unnecessary to me.

[-] Eggyhead@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

Breaking up the music, tv, news, arcade, banking, and possibly cloud storage branches makes more sense to me than simply divorcing hardware from software. Not that I see any reason to do that since competition for those services already thrives on Mac/iOS.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You seem to have forgotten that there were Safari and iTunes for Windows, and QuickTime player (for whatever reason everything was associated with that on our PC in my childhood, so I didn't know it's Apple) too.

There's nothing in any of their services which would make them useless outside of the ecosystem, provided Apple doesn't intentionally kill itself with behaving stupid.

Actually if that breakup happens, then maybe in like 10 years something decent may come out of it.

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