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All over the West voters have been fooled into believing they have a choice between right vs left politics, between corporate vs workers choices, between national social services and privatized services.

In truth there's only the alt-right wing and the lite-right wing. The Labour Party in the UK, like the Democrats in the US and the Liberals in Canada are essentially conservatives who hide their intentions under 'nice' words.

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@Rusty @dragonarchitect I disagree re: webOS and FirefoxOS.

#webOS failed due to lack of market penetration (there was only like 1 Tablet from #hp) and #FirefoxOS failed because @mozillaofficial didn't even offer to sell devices to folks like me and @fuchsiii that wanted one.

  • The only devices with #Firefox OS in the #EU were a few #NetLock'd #prepaid phones that got sold in Spain (reqiring ID for no valid reason!) and which were essentially useless for anyone outside of Spain.

Add to that the absurdity that #Mozilla basically expected carriers (!!) to maintain and provide the #AppStore|s themselves and you get market fracturing worse than the "P.R." #China (!!!)…

It was mismanaged and self-sabotaged in the worst possible way.

  • Similar to how #OLPC never sold the #XO1 in retail and didn't even offer the "Give one, Get one" deal in most places...

The #Duopoly of #Android & #iOS wasn't unavoidable, but an outcome of #SelfSabotage and halfassed non-commitment by competitors!

A UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds that the Apple-Google duopoly is 'anti-innovation'.

A UK competition authority investigation of Apple and Google's mobile browsers has concluded that the mobile duopoly's policies are "holding back innovation” and could also be limiting economic growth.

mediafaro.org/article/20250312

TechCrunch · A UK competition probe of mobile browsers finds that the Apple-Google duopoly is 'anti-innovation'.By Natasha Lomas