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		michaelmrose on May 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Appl... Phones are transitioning from devices to make phone calls to computers. Even the original iphone was more like a computer than a telephone.

Spivak on May 14, 2019 [–]

So? What makes it okay to lock down a telephone but not a computer? What would prevent a computer OEM from locking down devices to a single store like Windows 10S?

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