On Antitrust legislation and Apple iPhone experience
I always thought that politicians and their aides donβt really have clues about technology in general. If you want to fuck up something in tech, ask the politicians. This is exactly what could happen if these antitrust legislation proposal become laws.
Imagine that: you take out your brand new iPhone out of its box, turn it on only to be welcomed with an empty screen, no builtin apps, just a simple βHelloβ. In the name of what: competition. Developers like the one behind Basecamp and HEY would be so happy, because in this hypothetic world they would feel in better position to compete against Apple. What a bunch of retards.
I just wish this type of legislation would be in effect in the US, so that here in Canada, we would continue to get the standard iPhone experience.