It’s not a competitor in the sense of a being a company that can monopolise, which is the context of the discsussion

I think that ship has sailed

Did you read the article? Their concerns are a number of anticompetiive behaviours from Apple,. Not the lack of competition. But that said, “Android” is not a competitor, Android is an OS. Samsung is a competitor and they’re nowhere near Apples size in the US

It’s probably safe to assume that’s not the basis for the monopoly claim

The problem IMO is that there are a lot of entrenched beliefs here, but none of this is black and white

The claim was that renewables don’t have a recycling story. I gave references showing that’s not true and the comments that these efforts are early days and ought to improve with scale. Your glib response adds nothing

No, I just thought that was as glib response to a complex issue as the one you provided (and along with the original post)

https://www.greentechrenewables.com/article/can-solar-panels-be-recycled https://orsted.com/en/insights/the-fact-file/can-wind-turbines-be-recycled As volumes increase, the economics of recyling will increase as well, as will the developed techniques for recycling.

Nor with a stick up your ass

You volunteering to have it stored where you live?

You make a really good point with the comparison to dams. It’s not that it’s not a great way to generate power, but it is a fact that the worst case scenarios for failure are really really bad. It’s perfectly rational to worry about that. Consider, for example, how both dams and nuclear plants have been targeted by Russia in Ukraine. No one is worried if they smash a few solar panels

Yes you can

My personal view - I think closely related to your point - is that in-group out-group thinking is the root of most of our major issues

A. Rude B. Missed his point

The people who actually make the games and take all the risk, you mean?

“possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.”

It is. You ascribe an argument to me that I wasn’t making. It’s a strawman.

Irrelevant. Being good and popular doesn’t make them not a monopoly

And valve have admitted they’re making more profit than anyone else in the space. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be allowed a profit, I’m saying there’s an argument that they (and Apple via the Apple store) are taking too much from the work of others

Strawman.