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That's Google forcing you to publish your app publicly, not the EU.

If they allow you to side load you won't need to make the app publicly available and so won't need a privacy policy.

You mention Microsoft at the same time that multiple EU governments are moving away from Windows and Microsoft Office and recommending businesses to do the same.

Your last two sentences are contradictory. That is a very significant difference.

Another significant difference is how useful the standard library of each language is, so that you can avoid 3rd party libraries.

Also the tendency in the JS ecosystem to break libraries into tiny parts, because it helps or historically helped to ship less code to the user.

That usually ends up as proxies to the upstream repos, because the people managing the company repos don't have time to review every new version of a package.

At that point you're just as vulnerable to a supply chain attack.

I was with you until the talk about risk.

Low level employees are always taking far bigger risks in relative terms, the worse position a CEO will be in if all of his "risk" hits him is that they'll have to become a regular low level employee.

Windows is a small part of their revenue on purpose, because the OS monopoly enables them to sell and push a lot of their other revenue streams. Windows has always been easy to pirate for the same reason.

But make no mistake, it is very important for Microsoft and leadership, or they wouldn't keep updating it so much and talking about it so much on their keynotes and marketing.

GPT-5.2 7 months ago

How is that a technical hurdle if they obviously were able to do it before?

It's probably just a question of cost/benefit analysis, it's very expensive to do, so the benefits need to be significant.

You're describing planned and unplanned economies, which aligns somewhat with capitalism and state communism but is not the defining feature of them.

The main difference is ownership of the means of production/companies by the workers or by a separate group that might not work at the company at all.