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> If I want to deliver food can I ask my customers to use a Linux PC because I only have a Linux app? Can you tell your customers that your website only works on Safari?

Sure why not?

Businesses don’t have to do anything. They can and do support things arbitrarily and customers choose which business to engage with based off those decisions.

Apple and Google are following the same rules. Hopefully those rules change, but I doubt it.



>Sure why not

Are you trolling? or do not understand business?


I do understand business. You understand that customers are free to move on if they don't like a business' practices right? There are business's today whose websites only work on certain browsers, so I don't know what you're going on about to begin with.


>You understand that customers are free to move on if they don't like a business'

False. Not when there is a monopoly or the cost is too big(do you need examples? or definitions?)

>There are business's today whose websites only work on certain browsers

Sure, show me more then one excpetion of a company that made a web product from scratch in the latest 10 years and their product supports ONLY a browser with less then 50% market share.

But if you REALLY think(and not trolling) that a real business like restaurant/gym/parking place/shop can support only Linux phones then stop replying , just buy a iPhone from US when the EU version will be unlock-able.




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