
"Even when tech challengers conceive better, more innovative products, they hardly stand a chance to reach customers.

"The EU has a real chance of extending the requirements of the DMA, in order to support European businesses, fair competition and better products for users. "We are at a crucial juncture," a spokesperson says. Maybe some of them are already preinstalled and you can use them in parallel at some point deciding which is your default."Įlement, developer of a Matrix client, tells us that it fully supports Nextcloud's message. "I think it's not a bad idea to ask users what they want – what are the different choices. Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections.
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And one that does bring to mind the browser battles of old.
Rather than using the dominant enterprise desktop OS to nudge customers towards its cloud, he'd prefer Microsoft instead open up its APIs and adhere to open standards so "everybody has the right to plug into Windows and offer the exact same service."Ī noble goal for sure. What Karlitschek (and the coalition of interested parties) would like is a level playing field. We also suspect that Microsoft is too busy making money hand over fist to worry about Karlitschek's platform. Sadly, The Reg is unable to mangle the ancient motto of "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run" to fit Windows and Nextcloud. If we would somehow no longer be fully compatible on Windows, then this would be a problem we asked not be named at the beginning." "Windows is a dominant platform, so I was really careful.
